Yajni Warnapala
Areas of Expertise
Numerical Analysis, Integral Equations, Helmholtz Equation and Radiosity EquationEducation
B.S. Slippery Rock University
M.S. New Mexico State University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research
Current Research Students
Katie Gilbert - BS Biochemistry/BS Applied Mathematics '22
Grants & Consulting
ROGER WILLIAMS LAW SCHOOL - Consultant on the Project titled: Determinants of passing the pilipiliÎÛÂþ RI/MA bar exams on the first attempt. 2009-2011
MICROSOFT (Baptist Group) consultant on the Project titled: Does Microsoft Sales folks help drive the client to upgrade their operating system (windows)? – Seattle, WA. 2011
NASA Project PI for RI Space Grant: The Numerical Solution of the Helmholtz Equation for the Superellipsoid via the Gallerkin Method. Summer 2012
NASA Project PI for RI Space Grant: The Numerical Solution of the Helmholtz Equation for the Superellipsoid via the Modified Gallerkin Method for the Impedance Boundary Value Condition. Summer 2014
EPSCoR - RID Grant: The Numerical Solution of the Helmholtz Equation for the Biconcave Disk (Blood Cell) for the Dirichlet Boundary Condition: Mars Project. Spring 2015
NASA Project PI for RI Space Grant (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research): Numerical Solutions of the Radiosity Equation for the Spherical Quatrefoil and Spherical Rhombus on Mars. Summer 2016-17
NASA Project PI for RI Space Grant (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research): Numerical Solutions of the Radiosity Equation for the Spherical Quatrefoil on Mars. Summer 2017
Other Synergistic Activities
Reviewer for Journal of Student Research and International Journal of Industrial Mathematics
Co-Facilitator for QTLC – Quantitative Teaching and Learning Community.
Team teaching Biostatistics with a colleague in Environmental Science. The course is designed as an interdisciplinary course that bridges statistics and biological phenomenon from the theoretical perspective with the aid of JMP (SAS for Windows) software.
Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) – National Councilor for Mathematics and Computer Science Division - 2011 - 2014.
Professional Associations
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
Courses Taught
Biostatistics
Differential Equations
Linear Programming
Engineering Mathematics
Numerical Analysis