Mark Daley
Dr. Mark Daley is the Vice-President, Research at CIFAR and a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science, Statistics & Actuarial Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Biology at Western University. Mark has served as Associate Vice-President (Research) and Special Advisor to the President on Data Strategy at Western.
Mark's research focuses on natural computing, computational and mathematical modelling of biological systems, artificial intelligence, and theoretical computer science. He is a faculty affiliate of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and an Associate Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. He has served in a number of governance roles including chairing the board of Compute Ontario and serving on the boards of ICES and TRIUMF. In 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK). He has published over 100 research articles and has been awarded U.S., European, and Chinese patents for metabolomics profiling of concussion and has US patents pending for COVID-19 diagnostics.
