I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics in University College Dublin in the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
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My research spans statistical genetics, network analysis, palaeoclimate reconstruction, and sentiment analysis. See my publications below for more information or browse by topic by clicking projects in the navigation bar above.
PhD in Statistics, 2009
Trinity College Dublin
MSc in High Performance Computing, 2004
Trinity College Dublin
BA Mod Computational Physics, 2003
Trinity College Dublin
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Statistical Analysis of genetics data, mostly focussing on Population Genetics.
Analysis of data comprising links between nodes.
Inferring past climates based on proxies such as pollen.
Analysis of text, modelling both topic and sentiment.
Anything that doesn’t have another home
Software I have written / contributed to for general distribution
MOSAIC Tool for modelling multiway admixture using dense genotype data.
aniSNA Obtain network structures from animal GPS telemetry observations and statistically analyse them to assess their adequacy for social network analysis. Methods include pre-network data permutations, bootstrapping techniques to obtain confidence intervals for global and node-level network metrics, and correlation and regression analysis of the local network metrics.
VBLPCM Fit and simulate latent position and cluster models for network data, using a fast Variational Bayes approximation.
egoTERGM Estimation of ego-temporal exponential random graph models.
Review of Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Algorithms and Software R scripts used to run the examples in the supplementary document to the paper “Review of Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Algorithms and Software” (Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2012). The entire directory (input files and R scripts) is archived in a single file.
I am currently lecturing the following courses in UCD:
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Statistical Genetics:
Statistics and Machine Learning:
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