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Paul McNicholas (statistician)

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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.[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]

Education and career

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project | Paul David McNicholas".
  2. ^ "Home". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Canada Research Chairs - Paul McNicholas - Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics". chairs-chaires.gc.ca. 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Journal of Classification". Springer. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  6. ^ a b "About". ms.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  7. ^ McNicholas, Paul David (2007). Topics in unsupervised learning (thesis thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics. hdl:2262/86503.
  8. ^ "Paul D. McNicholas - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.ca. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Mixture Model-Based Classification". CRC Press. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  11. ^ "Data Science with Julia". CRC Press. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Two faculty named to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists". Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  13. ^ "College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2017 Cohort)" (PDF).
  14. ^ Balch, Erica (6 May 2019). "McMaster statistician awarded prestigious Steacie Fellowship". McMaster University. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
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