Eric Kolaczyk
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.