Amita Kalyanie Manatunga is a Sri Lankan biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University,[1] where she is also affiliated with the Winship Cancer Institute.
[2] Her research interests include survival analysis, inter-rater reliability, environmental epidemiology, and medical imaging of the kidneys.
Her dissertation, Inference for Multivariate Survival Distributions Generated by Stable Frailties, was supervised by David Oakes.
[3] After finishing her doctorate, she joined the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor, and moved in 1994 to Emory.
[1] At Emory, she is a long-term and frequent collaborator with two other women in biostatistics, Limin Peng and her former student Ying Guo.