Mark Andrew Kon, American Mathematics educator. Grantee National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Canadadian Mathematical Society, Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, Fulbright Fellowship, Warsaw, Poland.
Background
Kon, Mark was born in Warsaw, Poland. He received a PhD in Mathematics from MIT, and Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology from Cornell University. He has had appointments at Columbia University as Assistant and Associate Professor (Computer Science, Mathematics), as well as at Harvard and at MIT. He has served as departmental director of graduate studies at Boston University, and he is currently affiliated with the Bioinformatics Graduate Program. He has published approximately 100 articles in mathematics and statistics, mathematical physics, computational biology, and computational neuroscience, including two books. His recent research and applications interests involve quantum probability and information, statistics, machine learning, computational biology, computational neuroscience, and complexity. He has recently pursued research in quantum computation and information.
Education
Bachelor Degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology, Cornell University;
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University;
Affiliations:
Quantum Information Group
Bioinformatics Program
Computational Neuroscience Program
Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Visiting Professor, MIT
Associate professor, Columbia University, New York City
Membership
Member American Mathematical Society (Special Session organizer), International Neural Network Society (Conference organizer), International Association Mathematics Physics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery.
