Prof. Lark was born and raised in Pulaski, Virginia. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he will serve as adjunct professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. He also serves as a director of the Financial Engineering Research Group at U.Va., and as Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Department of Statistics at the University of Virginia.
Prof. Lark has served as a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at Va. Tech, the Dept. of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Dept. of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He was an Earhart Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Center for Research in Government Policy and Business at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Rochester. From October, 1993 until May, 1998, he served as director of research for DRA Research in San Jose, California. He has also served as an adjunct professor in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. From Fall 2003 until Spring 2009, Prof. Lark served as Assistant to the Athletics Director for Special Projects at the University of Virginia.
Prof. Lark's research interests include:
During the Spring 2012 semester, Prof. Lark will teach the following courses:
APMA 3110 Applied Statistics and Probability
APMA 3120 Statistics
STAT 2020/5000 Introduction to Biostatistics/Introduction to Applied Statistics
SYS 4000 Financial Aspects of Engineering