Padmapani Seneviratne, Ph.D.

Professor

A Conversation with Dr. Seneviratne

Tell us about a project you are currently working on or recently completed.

Recently, I have been studying quantum error correction codes (QECC). I have used graph-based techniques to obtain new zero-dimensional QECC.

What would you tell a student who is thinking about attending A&M-Commerce?

You will have a great college experience. We have small class sizes, and students get individual attention. The faculty at A&M-Commerce are dedicated and care about students both in and outside the classroom. There are various research opportunities for students.

What draws you to your discipline?

Mathematics is both challenging and enjoyable. My area of research is in coding theory, an interdisciplinary subject that connects mathematics with communications engineering and computer science. This subject area is where pure math concepts are applied in real-world applications.

What has been your favorite course to teach?

There is no one particular favorite class. I like to teach any class in the curriculum, from first-year math to graduate classes. I have taught MATH 2318: Linear Algebra most often.

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, 2007
• M.S., Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, 2003

Academic Positions

• Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2023-present
• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2017-2023
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2014-2017
• Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, 2007-2014

Honors and Awards

• Researcher of the Year, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2022-2023.
• MURI Graduate Research Fellowship, Clemson University, 2005
• Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, 2004

Research Interests

• Coding theory
• Algebra
• Discrete mathematics

Grants

• PI, National Science Foundation, REU Site: Theoretical and Application-Driven Mathematics (DMS-2243991) $385,387, 2023-2026

• Co-PI, Mathematical Association of America-NREUP grant (funded by NSF Grant DMS-1652506), $27,500, 2020
• Co-PI, Mathematical Association of America-NREUP grant (funded by NSF Grant DMS-1652506), $28,620, 2018
• PI, Faculty Research Enhancement Project Grant, Texas A&M University-Commerce, $9,880, 2016-2017

Professional Organizations

• American Mathematical Society

Selected Publications

• P. Seneviratne and M.F. Ezerman, New quantum codes from metacirculant graphs via self-dual additive F4-codes, Advances in Mathematics of Communication, 2022, In-press, doi: 10.3934/amc.2021073.
• P. Seneviratne, A remark on skew factorization and new F4-linear codes, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (World Scientific), 2022, In-press, doi: 10.1142/S1793830922500112.
• P. Seneviratne and M.F. Ezerman, Two new zero-dimensional qubit codes from bordered metacirculant construction, Discrete Mathematics, vol. 344 (2021), 112491.
• B. Srinivasulu and P. Seneviratne, Some results on F4[v]-double cyclic codes, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Springer), vol. 40, no. 64 (2021).
• P. Seneviratne, Jennifer D. Melendez and Alexander N. Westbrooks, Properties and Parameters of Codes from Line Graphs of Circulant Graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, vol. 114 (2020), pp 353–360.
• Taher Abualrub, Fred Ezerman, P. Seneviratne and Patrick Sol´e, Skew Generalized Quasi Cyclic Codes, TWMS journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 9, no. 2 (2018), pp. 123–134.
• P. Seneviratne and L. Melcher, LCD codes from projective spaces, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (World Scientific), vol. 10, no. 06, (2018) 1850079.
• P. Seneviratne and L. Melcher, On generalized MacDonald codes, Involve-A journal of Mathematics, vol. 11, no. 5, (2018), pp 885–892.