Scholar
Michael Fop
Google Scholar ID: yVUdTdUAAAAJ
Lecturer/Assistant Professor University College Dublin
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,215
H-index
11
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation and an Editorial Board Reviewer for the Journal of Machine Learning Research; was the Founding Chair of the Young Section of the Irish Statistical Association (2019 - 2021).
Research Experience
- Currently a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Statistics within the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin; teaches statistical machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence at graduate and postgraduate levels; has experience designing and delivering courses on statistical programming and statistical network analysis to PhD students; serves as the programme director for the BSc/BA/BScSocSc degrees in Statistics; leads the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics Working Group on Statistical Learning and the Statistics and Actuarial Science seminar series.
Background
- Research interests include developing novel statistical and machine learning methods for analyzing high-dimensional and complex data. Works at the intersection of methodological and applied statistics, often motivated by data-driven challenges in scientific and interdisciplinary research. Interests also cover latent variable models, network analysis, clustering, classification, and dimension reduction.
