Mark Hansen joined Columbia Journalism School in July of 2012, after
adecade of shuttling between the west and east coasts. In Los Angeles,
he held appointments in the Department of Statistics, the Department
of Design Media Arts and the Department of Electrical Engineering at
UCLA — literally forming a triangulation of data, art and technology
– and was a Co-PI for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, and
NSF Science and Technology Center devoted to the study of sensor
networks.

While in New York, Hansen was a long-standing visiting
researcher at The New York Times R&D Lab and a consultant with HBO
Sports. Hansen works with data in an essentially journalistic
practice, crafting stories through algorithm, computation and
visualization.

In addition to his technical work, Hansen also has an
active art practice involving the presentation of data for the
public. His work with Ben Rubin at EAR Studio has been exhibited at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney Museum, the Centro
de Arte Reina Sofia, the London Science Museum, the Cartier Foundation
in Paris, and the lobby of the New York Times Building (permanent
display) in Manhattan. 

Hansen holds a PhD and MA in Statistics from
the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in Applied Math from
the University of California, Davis.