Speaker Profile

Patrick Lucey

Chief Scientist, Stats Perform

ABOUT

Dr. Patrick Lucey is the Chief Scientist at sports data giants Stats Perform, leading the AI team with the goal of maximizing the value of the company’s deep treasure troves of sports data. Patrick has studied and worked in the AI field for the past 20 years, holding research positions at Disney Research and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as well as spending time at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center while pursuing his Ph.D. Patrick hails from Australia where he received his BEng(EE) from the University of Southern Queensland and his doctorate from Queensland University of Technology. He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers and has been a co-author on papers in the MIT Sloan Best Research Paper Track, winning best paper in 2016 and runner-up in 2017 and 2018.

Patrick Lucey

Speaker's Events

SSAC

2023 Conference

Mind, Body, Machine: The Role of AI/ML in the Future of Sports

SSAC

2023 Conference

The Next Revolution of AI in Sport - Large Language Models

SSAC

2020 Conference

Measuring the Immeasurable: Solving Soccer Analytics Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision presented by STATS Perform

Measuring team and player performance in soccer is extremely challenging due to the continuous, low-scoring and strategic nature of the game

SSAC

2019 Conference

Unlocking Potential: The Next Generation of Tracking Data (Presented by STATS)

Player tracking technologies in the past decade have provided information that was once unattainable—the distance and speed a player runs in a game, effectiveness against certain defenders, the game situations which are most likely to produce a fast break, and so much more.