McGill University, Canada
Brief info
Mark J. Coates received the B.E. degree in computer systems engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1999. He joined McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in 2002, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was a research associate and lecturer at Rice University, Texas, from 1999-2001. In 2012-2013, he worked as a Senior Scientist at Winton Capital Management, Oxford, UK.
He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing from 2007-2011, a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2012-2015, an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Signal and Information Proc. over Networks from 2018 – 2022, and a Senior Member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2022-2024. He currently serves as an Action Editor for the Transactions on Machine Learning Research and as an Associate Editor for Proc. IEEE.
Coates’ research interests include statistical signal processing, network and graph learning, and Bayesian and Monte Carlo inference. His most influential and widely cited contributions have been on the topics of network tomography, distributed particle filtering, and learning on graphs. In 2006, his research team received the NSERC Synergy Award in recognition of their successful collaboration with Canadian industry.