Teaching and Research 

Starting from February 25, 2019, until April 19, 2021, I held the position of Assistant Lecturer within the Department of Business Finance in the Faculty of Management at the University of Peradeniya. My primary duties included leading discussion sessions in the realms of accounting and finance, evaluating mid-semester exams, and providing guidance to students in coordinating various extracurricular and co-curricular activities.

From July 8, 2019, to the present day, I've been actively engaged as a Tutor and Mentor in the BBA External Degree Program at the Center for Distance and Continuing Education at the University of Peradeniya. During this period, I've taught subjects such as Financial Accounting, Financial Management, and Case Study and Seminar topics.

At present, since April 19, 2021, I hold the position of Lecturer within the Department of Business Finance in the Faculty of Management at the University of Peradeniya. In this capacity, I serve as the primary instructor for courses including Banking, Behavioral Finance, Management Accounting, Advanced Financial Accounting, Financial Markets, and Financial Econometrics. Additionally, I offer guidance to my assistant lecturers in facilitating discussions for the courses I lead.

I was also appointed as a visiting lecturer in National Institute of Business Management and University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

Courses Taught for Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Program at Faculty of Management 

• ACF 1101 - Financial Accounting 

• ACF 2102 - Corporate Finance

• ACF 2104 - Banking 

• ACF 2203 - Financial Markets 

• ACF 2202 - Financial Mathematics

• ACF 3105 - Financial Econometrics 

• ACF 3202 - Advanced Corporate Finance 

• ACF 4101 - Corporate Governance 

• ACF 4103 - Behavioral Finance 

• ACF 3204 - Security Analysis and Portfolio Management

Courses Taught for Bachelor of Commerce (B.com) Program at Faculty of Arts

• MGT 1021 - Fundamental  Financial Accounting

• MGT 2022 - Management Accounting  

• MGT 3022 - Financial Management 

• MGT 3108 - Advanced Financial Accounting 

• MGT 439 - Taxation

Courses Taught for Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Program at Faculty of Science

• MGT 103 - Introduction to Financial Accounting

• MGT 305 - Management Accounting 

Courses Taught for BBA (online) Program at Center of Distance and Continuous Education (CDCE)

• BBA 1201 - Financial Accounting

• BBA 222 - Financial Management 

• BBA 2201 - Auditing and Taxation

• BBA 332 - Management Case Studies and Seminar

Courses Taught at National Institute of Business Management (Visiting Lecturer)

• Achieving Success & Happiness in Life

• Governance, Economic and Trade Development & Rule of Law in Sri Lanka

• Leadership

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Courses Taught at University of Sri Jayewardenepura (Visiting Lecturer)

• DSC 4342: Personality and Skill Development 

Research Grants 

• Principal Investigator - URC/515 Multidisciplinary Grant "Effective AI Based Resource Distribution Management System for Hospitals" the Grant Value is LRK 25,000,000

• Principal Investigator- URG/2022/72/MG "Can overconfidence explain why men create bigger price bubbles than women? an experiment.” Grant Value is LKR 305,000

• Co-Investigator – URG/2023/48/MG“ Impact of Organizational Mission Drift on Employee Performances: Experimental Evidence from Non- Government Organizations in Sri Lanka. Grant Value is LKR 796,000

• Co- Investigator - URC/444 Multidisciplinary Grant "Predictive Models in Finance using Topological Data Analysis with Machine Learning" the Grant received is LKR 15,000,000

• Co-Investigator – URG/2024/19/MG: "Financial Technology and Behavioural Biases in the Era of Digitalization: A Gender–Wise Analysis"; Grant Value: LKR 780,000

Research  Publications

• Psychological Distance Influences the Impact of Overconfidence on Price Bubbles: Experimental Evidence. Proceedings of the 19th International Research Conference on Management and Finance, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 140.

• Presented the paper “Dissecting Stock Performance in an Emerging Market: The Influence of Social Media Sentiment, Firm-Specific Factors, and Macroeconomic Variables – Evidence from Sri Lanka” at the SLAcJ 9th International Conference, International University of Japan (IUJ), June 2025.

• Emojis to Equities: Assessing Investor Sentiment from Facebook in an Emerging Market (Under review)

• Enhancing Government Hospital Resource Management Through Smart Technologies: A Survey of Healthcare Professionals in Sri Lanka. Presented at the Peradeniya University International Research Symposium and Exposition, 2024. Published in conference proceedings, p. 107.

Dissertation Completed 

• Utilizing Machine Learning to Analyze the Impact of Facebook Sentiment on the Stock Performance of S&P SL 20 Companies. ( Completed as the final supervised independent project for my MSc in Applied Finance, earning a grade of A)  

• The Power of Words in Asset Pricing: A Machine Learning Driven Multi-Factor Model Incorporating Textual Investor Sentiment for Equity Risk Premium Prediction. (Completed as my dissertation for the MSc in Finance and Accounting at Imperial College London, awarded Distinction.) 

Clicks from Behavioral Experiment Sessions