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67
Citations
19693
World Ranking
1201
National Ranking
545

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Penrose Medal, The Geological Society of America
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kevin Burke was affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their work primarily focused on the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability, Control and Systems Engineering, Plant Science, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main research topics covered by their publications included:

  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Fault Detection and Control Systems
  • Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification

Their recent papers, representing a part of their academic output, were:

  • Fitting deep neural networks into the statistical regression modelling setting, 2024, Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science
  • A statistical modelling approach to feedforward neural network model selection, 2024, Statistical Modelling
  • Variable selection using a smooth information criterion for distributional regression models, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Statistical-Modelling Approach to Feedforward Neural Network Model Selection, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Robust Distributional Regression with Automatic Variable Selection, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Kevin Burke collaborated frequently with several researchers, which included:

  • Andrew McInerney
  • Qin Leng
  • Elin Svärd
  • Meadhbh O'Neill
  • Jiaqi Liang

The venues in which Burke frequently published comprised:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science
  • Statistical Modelling
  • Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting

Burke received the Penrose Medal from The Geological Society of America in 2007. They were also recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Plume-Generated Triple Junctions: Key Indicators in Applying Plate Tectonics to Old Rocks

    Kevin Burke;J. F. Dewey

  • Tibetan, Variscan, and Precambrian Basement Reactivation: Products of Continental Collision

    John F. Dewey;Kevin C. A. Burke

  • Development of Pull-Apart Basins

    Paul Mann;Mark R. Hempton;Dwight C. Bradley;Kevin Burke

  • Relative timing of rifting and volcanism on earth and its tectonic implications

    A. M. Celal Sengör;Kevin Burke

  • Tectonic Evolution of the Caribbean

    Kevin Burke

  • Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core–mantle boundary

    Kevin Burke;Kevin Burke;Bernhard Steinberger;Trond H. Torsvik;Mark A. Smethurst

  • Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

    Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;Kevin Burke;Kevin Burke;Bernhard Steinberger;Bernhard Steinberger;Susan J. Webb

  • Opening of the Gulf of Guinea and Geological History of the Benue Depression and Niger Delta

    Kevin Burke;T. F. J. Dessauvagie;A. J. Whiteman

  • Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

    T.M. Kusky;A. Polat;A. Polat;B.F. Windley;B.F. Windley;K.C. Burke

  • The African Erosion Surface: A Continental-scale Synthesis of Geomorphology, Tectonics, and Environmental Change over the Past 180 Million Years

    Kevin Burke;Yanni Gunnell

  • Large igneous provinces generated from the margins of the large low-velocity provinces in the deep mantle

    Trond H. Torsvik;Mark A. Smethurst;Kevin Burke;Bernhard Steinberger

  • Longshore Drift, Submarine Canyons, and Submarine Fans in Development of Niger Delta

    Kevin Burke

  • Aulacogens and Their Genetic Relation to Geosynclines, With a Proterozoic Example from Great Slave Lake, Canada

    Paul Hoffman;John F. Dewey;Kevin Burke

  • Hot Spots and Continental Break-up: Implications for Collisional Orogeny

    John F. Dewey;Kevin Burke

  • Caribbean tectonics and relative plate motions

    Kevin Burke;Calvin Cooper;John F. Dewey;Paul Mann

  • Tectonic Escape in the Evolution of the Continental Crust

    Kevin Burke;Celal Sengör

  • Neotectonics of the Caribbean

    Paul Mann;Kevin Burke

  • Is the African plate stationary

    K. Burke;J. T. Wilson

  • Derivation of Large Igneous Provinces of the past 200 million years from long-term heterogeneities in the deep mantle

    Kevin Burke;Kevin Burke;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik

  • Relative and Latitudinal Motion of Atlantic Hot Spots

    Kevin Burke;W. S. F. Kidd;J. Tuzo Wilson

  • Chicxulub multiring impact basin - Size and other characteristics derived from gravity analysis

    Virgil L. Sharpton;Kevin Burke;Antonio Camargo-Zanoguera;Stuart A. Hall

  • Geological atlas of Western and Central Europe

    Kevin Burke

Frequent Co-Authors

Trond H. Torsvik
Trond H. Torsvik University of Oslo
William S.F. Kidd
William S.F. Kidd University at Albany, State University of New York
Paul Mann
Paul Mann University of Houston
John F. Dewey
John F. Dewey University of Oxford
Bernhard Steinberger
Bernhard Steinberger Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Lewis D. Ashwal
Lewis D. Ashwal University of the Witwatersrand
John F. Casey
John F. Casey University of Houston
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Timothy M. Kusky
Timothy M. Kusky China University of Geosciences

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