Dr. Chathurika Abeykoon joins the Department of Mathematics as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Abeykoon received her Ph.D. in Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics from the University of Mississippi last spring. Her research work lies at the intersection of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science focusing on the theoretical foundations of machine learning and deep learning concepts. Recently she has been exploring the double descent behavior in neural networks for classification.
Education
PhD - University of Mississippi