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Biographical Information
Paul McNicholas is the University Research Chair in Computational Statistics at the University of Guelph, where he is Associate Professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Mathematics & Statistics as well as Director of the Bioinformatics Program. Paul was educated at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he read mathematics (BA, MA), high-performance computing (MSc), and statistics (PhD). Paul's primary research concerns model-based clustering and classification. In addition, he has conducted research in other applications of mixture models, such as cure rates in survival analysis, and in data mining. Work in cure rate modelling has focused on process-based approaches, and data mining work has focused on association rule mining.

Last summer, Paul was awarded an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. Soon afterwards, he won a Distinguished Professor Teaching Award from the University of Guelph Faculty Association. Applications of Paul's research can be seen most readily in areas like bioinformatics, food authenticity and sensory science. Applications of his sensory science work are the subject of an industrial collaboration. Paul's research group currently comprises an assistant professor, two postdoctoral research fellows, eleven PhD students, and eight MSc students. Since his arrival in Guelph in July 2007, Paul has completed the training of sixteen master's students and two postdoctoral research fellows --- both of the postdoctoral fellows are now faculty.

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Paul's research group is currently supported by the Natural Science & Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund, the Ontario Centres of Excellence, the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation; and an industry partner.

Paul is a Guest Editor for the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Second Special Issue on Advances in Mixture Models and an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C.

Contact Information
E-mail: paul.mcnicholas@uoguelph.ca
Phone: 519-824-4120, ext 53136
Fax: 519-837-0221

Website last updated: May 13, 2012.

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