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Erasmus+ DS&AI project was started in 2018 for the main purpose of introducing a novel Master’s degree program in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Asia with the mission of bringing European-standard advanced education to Asia. Nine Asian universities, three European universities and four European companies are involved in the above project.

As a part of the project, a team of four academics (Mr. DDA Gamini, Dr. TGI Fernando, Dr. Chitraka Wickramarachchi & Dr. RM Silva) from the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics participated in a study visit to Greece and the Netherlands with primary objective of designing curriculum, together with other partner universities, for the Master’s degree program in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

In parallel to the Masters degree program in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, professional training courses are going to be offered by each partner university targeting the people from the industry. In order to design and offer these professional courses at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, we will be organizing an awareness program called “Info Days” inviting the prospective candidates from the industry.  

For more details, please go to this link: https://science.sjp.ac.lk/sta/dsai/

University of Sri Jayewardenepura emerged champions at the ESTADISTICA challenge trophy, the inter-university quiz organized by the Statistics Society of University of Sri Jayewardenepura. The competition took place at the university premises, in par with the annual statistics convention ESTADISTICA 2019, which was held on the 21st on November. The winning team members were W.D.M Fernando, F.H.S.D Silva, R.T Dananjana, V.C.R. de Mel.

University of Sri Jayewardenepura secured the second place in the datathon of SLIIT CODEFEST 2019. The competition consisted of tackling a big data problem sponsored by zone24x7 technologies (pvt) ltd. The competitors were faced with the challenge of analyzing a dataset of sales over an year and fitting a predictive model to prevent problems in retail where items are out of stock.  The winning team members were J.C. Wanniarachchi, U. S. Samarasinghe, A.S. Fernando, H.A. Mendis.

Applications are invited from interested candidates for the M.Sc. in Applied Statistics offered by the Department of Statistics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. This program has been designed for graduates with a basic knowledge in Statistics to provide them an opportunity to further develop their knowledge in Applied Statistics.

The online application is available from Faculty of Graduate Studies website:

http://graduate.sjp.ac.lk/students/.

Candidates need to click the Apply now button under PGD / Masters / MBE / MPhil. Post/hand in the completed application form along with the payment receipt to the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

For further information

Dr. Chathuri Jayasignhe
Coordinator – postgraduate program in Applied Statistics,
Department of Statistics,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda
Tel: 011-2758905  Email: chathuri@sjp.ac.lk