Education

Ph.D. in Operations Research, Cornell University, 2013
- Concentration: Applied Probability and Statistics
- Advisors: David Ruppert and Giles Hooker
- Dissertation: On Generalized Additive Models for Regression with Functional Data
M.S. in Operations Research, Cornell University, 2013
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Statistics, University of Manitoba, 2008

Professional Experience

Data Scientist, Displayr, 2017-
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Technology Sydney, 2015-2017
- Supervisor: Matt P. Wand
Postdoctoral researcher, Texas A&M University, 2013-2015
- Supervisor: Raymond J. Carroll

Honors, Awards, & Fellowships

NSERC PGS-D, 2011-2013
NSERC PGS-M (CGS-M Declined), 2008-2009
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, University of Manitoba, 2007 and 2008
Dr. Cyril H. Goulden Memorial Scholarship, 2008
U. of M. Students Union Scholarship, University of Manitoba, 2005, 2006, and 2007
Queen Elizabeth II Entrance Scholarship, 2004-2005

Publications, talks, and software are available on the other tabs of my webpage.

Publications

M. W. McLean and M. P. Wand. “Variational Message Passing for Elaborate Response Regression Models”. In: Bayesian Analysis 14.2 (Jun. 2019), pp. 371-398.

K. Triff, M. W. McLean, E. Callaway, et al. “Dietary fat and fiber interact to uniquely modify global histone post-translational epigenetic programming in a rat colon cancer progression model”. In: International Journal of Cancer 143.6 (May 2018), pp. 1402-1415.

M. W. McLean (2017). “RefManageR: Import and Manage BibTeX and BibLaTeX References in R”. The Journal of Open Source Software. DOI: 10.21105/joss.00338. R Package also accepted by ROpenSci.

K. Triff, M. W. McLean, K. Kranti, et al. “Assessment of Histone Tail Modifications and Transcriptional Profiling During Colon Cancer Progression Reveals a Global Decrease in H3K4me3 Activity”. In: BBA - Molecular Basis of Disease 1863.6 (Jun. 2017), pp. 1392–1402. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2017.03.009.

M. W. McLean, G. Hooker and D. Ruppert. “Restricted Likelihood Ratio Tests for Linearity in Scalar-on-Function Regression”. In: Statistics and Computing 25.5 (Sep. 2015), pp. 997–1008. DOI: 10.1007/s11222-014-9473-1. arXiv: 1310.5811 [stat.ME].

M. W. McLean, G. Hooker, A. M. Staicu, F. Scheipl and D. Ruppert. “Functional Generalized Additive Models”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 23.1 (Feb. 2014), pp. 249–269. DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2012.729985.

Matteson, D. S, M. W. McLean, D. B. Woodard and S. G. Henderson. “Forecasting Emergency Medical Service Call Arrival Rates”. In: Annals of Applied Statistics 5.2B (Jun. 2011), pp. 1379–1406. DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS442. arXiv: 1107.4919 [stat.AP].

Submitted Manuscripts

M. W. McLean, C. J. Oates and M. P. Wand. “Real-Time Semiparametric Regression via Sequential Monte Carlo”. (2017). Submitted.

M. W. McLean, F. Scheipl, G. Hooker, S. Greven and D. Ruppert (2017). Bayesian Functional Generalized Additive Models with Sparsely Observed Covariates. arXiv: 1305.3585 [stat.ME].

M. W. McLean (2014). Straightforward Bibliography Management in R Using the RefManageR Package. arXiv: 1403.2036 [cs.DL].

Software

RefManageR an R package available on CRAN, for which I am sole author and maintainer. The package allows for importing, printing, and working with and bibliographic references in R.
refund an R package available on CRAN for regression with functional data, maintained by Lei Huang (2012). I have contributed the following components that allow for fitting, prediction, and visualization of functional generalized additive models: fgam(), af(), lf(), predict.fgam(), vis.fgam().
Online Appendix to "Functional Generalized Additive Models", containing R code used in simulations.

Talks and Poster Presentations

Restricted Likelihood Ratio Tests for Regression with Functional Data
- 2014 WNAR/IMS Conference, Honolulu, HI, June, 2014 (invited)
- ENAR 2014 Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March, 2014 (contributed)
Reproducible Research and Dynamic Documents with R
- IAMCS Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Workshop Series, College Station, TX, 2014 (invited)
Authoring R packages
- IAMCS Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Workshop Series, College Station, TX, 2014 (invited)
Functional Generalized Additive Models
- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, August, 2017 (invited)
- Annual Conference of the German and Austrian Statistical Association, Vienna, Austria, September, 2012 (invited)
- ORIE PhD Student Colloquium, September, 2012 (talk)
- Imaging, Communications and Finance: Stochastic Modeling of Real-world Problems, Columbia University, June, 2011 (poster)
- SAMSI Closing Workshop on the Analysis of Object Data, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, June, 2011 (poster)
- Statistical Methods for Very Large Datasets Conference, Johns Hopkins University, June, 2011 (poster)
- Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, Canada, August, 2010 (talk)
SCoOp: Statistical Computation of Option Prices (poster)
- University of Manitoba

Academic Experience

Cornell University

Teaching Assistant, Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics, Summer 2012
Graduate Research Assistant, David Ruppert, Summer 2011
Teaching Assistant, Data Mining, Spring 2011
Teaching Assistant, Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics, Fall 2010
Graduate Research Assistant, David Ruppert, Summer 2010
Graduate Research Assistant, David Matteson, Shane Henderson, and Dawn Woodard, 2009-2010
Teaching Assistant, Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics, Fall 2009
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Engineering Stochastic Processes I, Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics, Fall 2008

University of Manitoba

Undergraduate Research Assistant, A. Thavaneswaran, Summer 2008
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ruppa K. Thulasiram, Summer 2007

Professional Activities

Referee for Biometrics, Biometrika, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Environmetrics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Statistica Sinica, Journal of Statistical Software, Statistical Modelling