Summary
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.[2] In 2015, McNicholas was awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics.[3] McNicholas uses computational statistics techniques, and mixture models in particular, to gain insight into large and complex datasets.[4] He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Classification.[5]
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 edit
McNicholas attended Trinity College Dublin where in 2004 he received a B.A. (Mod.) in Mathematics. He also holds an M.Sc. in High Performance Computing and a Ph.D. in Statistics.[6] His 2007 Ph.D. thesis is entitled Topics in Unsupervised Learning.[7]
McNicholas started his faculty career at University of Guelph in 2007. In 2014, he joined McMaster University.[6] He has authored more than 100 scientific works cited over 4000 times.[8] The majority of his research has been on 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.[9] McNicholas has published two monographs: Mixture Model-Based Classification[10] and Data Science with Julia.[11]
Recognition edit
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.[4][14]
References edit
- ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project | Paul David McNicholas".
- ^ "Home". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Canada Research Chairs - Paul McNicholas - Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics". chairs-chaires.gc.ca. 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ a b "NSERC - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship". Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). 6 May 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ^ "Journal of Classification". Springer. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ a b "About". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ McNicholas, Paul David (2007). Topics in unsupervised learning (thesis thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics. hdl:2262/86503.
- ^ "Paul D. McNicholas - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.ca. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ McNicholas, Paul D. (1 October 2016). "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 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Data Science with Julia". CRC Press. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ "Two faculty named to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists". Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ "College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2017 Cohort)" (PDF).
- ^ Balch, Erica (6 May 2019). "McMaster statistician awarded prestigious Steacie Fellowship". McMaster University. Retrieved 20 April 2022.