Patrick Juola

Patrick Juola is an American computer scientist, internationally recognized as an expert in text analysis, security, forensics, and stylometry. He is currently a professor of computer science as well as the Cybersecurity Studies program Director at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

As a faculty member at Duquesne University, Juola has authored two books and more than 100 scientific publications as well as generated more than two million dollars in Federal research grant funding. He works in the fields of computer linguistics and computer security, and is currently employed as Director of Research at Juola & Associates and Principal of the Evaluating Variations in Language Laboratory. He is credited with co-creating the original biometric word list. Juola also co-created JGAAP, Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program, a Java-based open source authorship attribution suite, with several students at Duquesne University including David Berdik, Sean Vinsick, Amanda Kroft, and Michael Ryan.

Juola is the author of Principles of Computer Organization and Assembly Language, a textbook on computer organization and assembly language, published through Prentice-Hall. He also wrote Authorship Attribution, a survey and technical monograph on authorship attribution, published through NOW Publishers.

He was born in 1966 in Renton, Washington. Juola attended the Johns Hopkins University, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder under Lise Menn.