{"id":288,"date":"2017-03-27T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:07:47","slug":"dr-thiyanga-talagala","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/dr-thiyanga-talagala\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Thiyanga S. Talagala"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"288\" class=\"elementor elementor-288\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ff99ef8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ff99ef8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-626f22eb\" data-id=\"626f22eb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db145bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"db145bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<figure id=\"attachment_869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-869\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/TSTdepartment.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-869\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/TSTdepartment.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Thiyanga Talagala \" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Lecturer (Grade I)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nDr. Thiyanga Talagala\n\nBSc Special (Hons) Stat (USJ), MSc (UoM, SL), PhD (Stat, Monash, Australia)\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/research\/#jump_Talagala\"><strong>Research Interest:<\/strong> Business Forecasting, Statistical Computing, Statistical Machine Learning and Interpretability<\/a>\n\n<strong>Email: ttalagala(at)sjp.ac.lk<\/strong>\n<strong>Web: <a href=\"https:\/\/thiyanga.netlify.app\/\">https:\/\/thiyanga.netlify.app\/<\/a><\/strong>\n\n<strong>Link to Google Scholar:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=7cUtrWUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=7cUtrWUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Thiyanga Talagala BSc Special (Hons) Stat (USJ), MSc (UoM, SL), PhD (Stat, Monash, Australia) Research Interest: Business Forecasting, Statistical Computing, Statistical Machine Learning and Interpretability Email: ttalagala(at)sjp.ac.lk Web: https:\/\/thiyanga.netlify.app\/ Link to Google Scholar: https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=7cUtrWUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}