Statistical signal processing, including blind signal separation, blind deconvolution, image processing, and applications of numerical Bayesian estimation (MCMC) techniques
Dr. Reilly works at the interface of machine learning and signal processing applied to health related problems, particularly in neuroscience and psychiatry. Particular thrusts are development of improved machine learning algorithms, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, prognosis for coma outcome, and assessment of infant motor movement relating to neurological deficit.
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Dr. Reilly was the Acting Chair in 2011, Associate Chair Undergraduate Affairs 2004 – 2013 and is a holder of 9 patents
Dr. Reilly and colleagues received the R.O. Jones Best Paper Award for their presentation at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Conference, Sept. 2014, Toronto.
Professor James Reilly graduated with a B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Waterloo in electrical engineering in 1973. He received his M.Eng and Ph.D. from McMaster University in 1977 and 1980 respectively, both in electrical engineering. He worked from 1973-75 in the cable TV industry, and from 1980-85 at then Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, where he was involved in the development of terrestrial digital microwave radio and multiplexing technology for digital transmission systems. He joined the faculty of McMaster University in 1985 as an associate professor, and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1992. He is an electrical/biomedical engineer at McMaster University, specializing in signal processing and machine learning. He has published widely in the area of signal processing at large and has co-authored pioneering papers on machine learning analysis of the EEG for the treatment of major depression and schizophrenia. He is a member of the IEEE MLSP Technical Affairs Committee and has enjoyed extensive collaboration and funding from industry, through which he has obtained 9 patents.
Narges Armanfard, James P. Reilly, Majid Komeili, “Local Feature Selection for Data Classification”, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 38, No. 6, June 2016, pp. 1217-1227.
Narges Armanfard, James P. Reilly, Majid Komeili, “Feature Selection and Classification Based on Local Modeling of the Sample Space”, accepted by IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Feb. 2017. 1
Cross-listed: BIOMED 712/ECE 712 Matrix decompositions: eigen-decomposition, QR decomposition, singular value decomposition; solution to systems of equations: Gaussian elimination, Toeplitz systems; least square methods: ordinary, generalized and total least squares, principal component analysis.
Instructor
Dr. James (Jim) Reilly
Cross-listed: BIOMED 712/ECE 712 Matrix decompositions: eigen-decomposition, QR decomposition, singular value decomposition; solution to systems of equations: Gaussian elimination, Toeplitz systems; least square methods: ordinary, generalized and total least squares, principal component analysis.
