Patrick Juola is an American computer scientist known for his work on authorship attribution.
[2] He returned to the United States to take up an assistant professorship in computer science at Duquesne University in 1998.
[1] He has led the National Science Foundation-funded Evaluating Variations in Language Lab[3] since 2010.
Though this had been a topic of his research for many years, he became well-known in 2013 when he was commissioned by the Sunday Times to examine the text of The Cuckoo's Calling, providing evidence that "Robert Galbraith" was a pen name of J. K.
His company has been hired by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, as his work might have cybersecurity applications, and Juola has served as an expert witness in court cases relating to fraud and inheritance.