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 2009-2010 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 Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics 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. Since the Fall 2003 semester, Dr. Lark has served as Assistant to the Athletics Director for Special Projects at the University of Virginia.
Prof. Lark's research interests include:
During the Fall 2009 semester, Prof. Lark will teach the following course:
ENGR 1620 Introduction to Engineering Workshop