Erandathi Ekanayake is currently working as a temporary lecturer at Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya attached to the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering. She completed her bachelor's degree in Statistics and Operations Research in 2015 from Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya and joined Department of Mathematics of the same faculty as a temporary tutor and was later appointed as a temporary lecturer in 2016. From 2016 to 2018 she worked as a temporary lecturer at Department of Operations Management, Faculty of Management, University of Peradeniya. While working in the above positions she completed her master’s degree in Industrial Mathematics from the Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya. She obtained her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in July 2023.