Portrait of Eric Kolaczyk

Eric Kolaczyk

Associate Academic Member
Professor, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Research Topics
Computational Biology
Computational Neuroscience
Learning on Graphs
Molecular Modeling
Probabilistic Models

Biography

Eric Kolaczyk is a professor in McGill University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and the inaugural director of the McGill Computational and Data Systems Initiative (CDSI). His research is focused on how statistical and machine learning theory and methods can support human endeavours enabled by computing and engineered systems, frequently from a network-based perspective of systems science. He collaborates regularly on problems in computational biology, computational neuroscience and, most recently, AI-assisted chemistry and materials science. He has published over one hundred articles, including several books on the topic of network analysis.

As an associate editor, Kolaczyk has served on the boards of JASA and JRSS-B in statistics, IEEE IP and TNSE in engineering, and SIMODS in mathematics. He formerly served as co-chair of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering Roundtable on Data Science Education. He is an elected fellow of the AAAS, ASA and IMS, an elected senior member of IEEE, and an elected member of the ISI.

Current Students

Master's Research - McGill University

Publications

Autoregressive Networks with Dependent Edges
Jinyuan Chang
Qin Fang
Peter W. MacDonald
Qiwei Yao
Stochastic gradient descent-based inference for dynamic network models with attractors
Hancong Pan
Xiaojing Zhu
Cantay Caliskan
Dino P. Christenson
Konstantinos Spiliopoulos
Dylan Walker
Assessing the impact of aircraft arrival on ambient ultrafine particle number concentrations in near-airport communities in Boston, Massachusetts.
Chloe S. Chung
K. Lane
Flannery Black-Ingersoll
Claire Schollaert
Sijia Li
Matthew C. Simon
J. Levy
Assessing the Impact of Aircraft Arrival on Ambient Ultrafine Particle Number Concentrations in Near-Airport Communities in Boston, Massachusetts
Chloe S. Chung
Chloe S. Kim
Kevin James Lane
K. Lane
Flannery Black-Ingersoll
Claire Schollaert
Sijia Li
Matthew C. Simon
Jonathan I. Levy
J. Levy