Paul McNicholas

Overview

Paul McNicholas is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, where he holds the (Tier 1) Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics. Paul’s research focuses on computational statistics, particularly mixture model-based clustering and classification. His current research interests include non-Gaussian mixtures, matrix-variate distributions, and real problems in big data analytics.

Affiliations

• Professor; Canada Research Chair
• Faculty of Science, McMaster University
• Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science
• Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics
• Associate Member, Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering

Education

• BA/MA (Mathematics), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• MSc (High Performance Computing), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• PhD (Statistics), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• ScD (Statistics), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland