Paul McNicholas (statistician)
Paul D. McNicholas is an Irish-Canadian statistician. He is a professor and University Scholar in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University where he holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics.[2] McNicholas uses computational statistics techniques, and mixture models in particular, to gain insight into large and complex datasets.[3] He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Classification.[4]
Paul McNicholas | |
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Born | Paul David McNicholas |
Nationality | Irish, Canadian |
Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
Known for | Classification, clustering, mixture models |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | University of Guelph McMaster University |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas Brendan Murphy, Myra O'Regan[1] |
Website | www |
Education and career
McNicholas attended Trinity College Dublin. In 2004, he received a B.A. (Mod.) in Mathematics. In 2007, he received a M.Sc. in High Performance Computing and a Ph.D. in Statistics.[5] His Ph.D. thesis is entitled Topics in Unsupervised Learning.[6]
McNicholas started his faculty career at the University of Guelph in 2007, and, in 2014, he moved to McMaster University.[5] He has authored more than 100 scientific works and has been cited over 4000 times.[7] The majority of his work is in the area of model-based clustering, specifically in developing novel finite mixture models for clustering and classification of multivariate data. He has published works on clustering high-dimensional data and the use of non-Gaussian mixtures.[8] McNicholas has published two monographs: Mixture Model-Based Classification[9] and Data Science with Julia.[10]
Recognition
In 2015, McNicholas was awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics.[11] In 2017, he was inducted into The College of New Scholars Artists and Scientists of the College of the Royal Society of Canada.[12][13] In 2019, he was awarded an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[3][14]
References
- "Mathematics Genealogy Project | Paul David McNicholas".
- "Home". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- "NSERC - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship". Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). 2019-05-06. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
- "Journal of Classification". Springer. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
- "About". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- McNicholas, Paul David (2007). Topics in unsupervised learning (thesis thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics.
- "Paul D. McNicholas - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
- McNicholas, Paul D. (2016-10-01). "Model-Based Clustering". Journal of Classification. 33 (3): 331–373. doi:10.1007/s00357-016-9211-9. ISSN 1432-1343.
- "Mixture Model-Based Classification". CRC Press. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
- "Data Science with Julia". CRC Press. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
- "Canada Research Chairs - Paul McNicholas - Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics". chairs-chaires.gc.ca. 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- "Two faculty named to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists". Retrieved 2020-06-21.
- "College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2017 Cohort)" (PDF).
- "McMaster statistician awarded prestigious Steacie Fellowship". Retrieved 2020-06-21.