Mark Hansen is Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School in New York and director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

He joined the Columbia Journalism School in July 2012. Previously, he held appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Statistics, the Department of Design Media Arts and the Department of Electrical Engineering and was a Co-PI for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, an 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.

Mark 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 The Office for Creative Research 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.

He holds a PhD and MA in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Davis.

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