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This article is about the statistician. For the rugby player, see Paul McNicholas.
Paul McNicholas
Born
Paul David McNicholas
NationalityIrish, Canadian
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Known forClassification, clustering, mixture models
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Guelph
McMaster University
Doctoral advisorThomas Brendan Murphy, Myra O'Regan[1]
Websitewww.paulmcnicholas.info

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]

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

  1. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project | Paul David McNicholas".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Home". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  3. ^ a b "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.
  4. ^ "Journal of Classification". Springer. Retrieved 2020-06-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b "About". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  6. ^ McNicholas, Paul David (2007). Topics in unsupervised learning (thesis thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics.
  7. ^ "Paul D. McNicholas - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Mixture Model-Based Classification". CRC Press. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  10. ^ "Data Science with Julia". CRC Press. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  11. ^ "Canada Research Chairs - Paul McNicholas - Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics". chairs-chaires.gc.ca. 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Two faculty named to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists". Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  13. ^ "College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2017 Cohort)" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "McMaster statistician awarded prestigious Steacie Fellowship". Retrieved 2020-06-21.
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