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Paul McNicholas --- Research |
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Research Interests
Paul McNicholas' research interests are in the areas of mathematical and computational
statistics. Current research is principally in the area of model-based clustering
but research is also ongoing in model-based classification and cure rate models in survival
analysis. A summary of research interests is given below:
- Bioinformatics.
- Biostatistics.
- Classification.
- Clustering.
- Cure rates.
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- Data mining.
- Food authenticity.
- Foundations of statistics.
- High performance computing.
- Statistics in sensory evaluation.
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Opportunities for Prospective Graduate Students
Several opportunities for prospective graduate students exist in the areas listed below. There are also some opportunities for undergraduate summer students and opporunities arise from time to time for post-doctoral research fellows.
- Parameter estimation in model-based clustering, classification and discriminant analysis
- Model selection in model-based clustering, classification and discriminant analysis
- Model-based clustering in sensory evaluation
- Statistical analysis of taste testing data
- Acceleration of EM algorithms
- Analysis of gene expression microarray data
- Modelling gene expression time course data
- Topics in cure rate modelling
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Research Group
Paul's research group is based primarily in the Newton Lab in
the MacNaughton building at the University of Guelph. The group currently consists of two postdoctoral research fellows, eleven doctoral students, eight master's students, and an undergruate research assistant.
| Postdocs |
PhD Students |
MSc Students |
Past Graduate Students & Postdocs |
| Sakyajit Bhattacharya | Jeff Andrews | Sabrina Dicintio | Abdullah Albahouth* (MSc, 2010) |
| Raju Jampani | Amay Cheam | Dena Givari | Jeff Andrews (MSc, 2009) |
| UJ Dang | Katherine Morris | Firat Atesok* (MSc, 2010) |
| Brian Franczak* | Paula Murray | Ryan Browne (Postdoc, 2010-2011) |
| Moyi Li* | Michael Phillips | Chevonne Carlow* (MBinf, 2011) |
| Rachel O'Reilly | Justin Styner* | John Castura (MSc, 2011) |
| Tatiana Petukhova | Jessica Young* | Yingyu Chen* (MSc, 2011) |
| Mateen Shaikh | Yuhong Wei | Ali Lorfard (MSc, 2010) |
| Sanjeena Subedi | | Dasha Martchenko* (MSc, 2011) |
| Irene Vrbik | | William Petrcich (MSc, 2011) |
| Monica Wong* | | Mateen Shaikh* (MSc, 2009) |
| | | Matt Sparling (MSc, 2010) |
| | | Michelle Steane (MSc, 2009) |
| | | Monica Wong* (MSc, 2011) |
| | | Xiaojian Yang* (MSc, 2010) |
| | | Yu Xia (Postdoc, 2010-2011) |
| | | Ruimin Xu* (MSc, 2009) |
| | | Rashmiba Zala* (MSc, 2011) |
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* co-supervised
Research Grants Currently & Recently Held
Paul's research group currently enjoys funding support from a number of
different granting agencies and from an industry partner. This support is summarized below.
| Agency |
Type |
Years of Tenure |
| NSERC | Discovery Grant | 2008--2011, 2011--2015 |
| Canada Foundation for Innovation | Learders Opportunity Fund | 2009--2012 |
| Ontatio Ministry of Research and Innovation | Small Infrastructure Fund | 2009--2012 |
| Compusense Inc. | Industry Support | 2009--2012 |
| NSERC | Collaborative Research & Development | 2009--2012 |
| OCE | Collaborative Research | 2010--2011 |
| NSERC | Engage | 2010 |
| MITACS | NCE: High Performance Optimization | 2010--2011 |
| University of Guelph | University Research Chair | 2011--2015 |
| NSERC | Research Tools & Instruments | 2011--2012 |
| Ontatio Ministry of Research and Innovation | Early Researcher Award | 2011--2015 |
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