PRINCIPALS

The Founders

Charles DeLisi

Co-Founder of CQA, is  currently Metcalf  Professor of Science and Engineering at Boston University, and Dean emeritus of the College of Engineering. He has held senior executive positions in both academia and Government, and is widely recognized as a transformative leader, and recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to computational science and national science policy, including the Presidential Citizens’ Medal (President Clinton) for initiating the Human Genome Project (HGP), and the Smithsonian Platinum Technology Pioneering Leadership award. He played a seminal role in bringing Big Data into biomedical science. Charles, his colleagues and students have published or edited six books and more than 300 research papers. Among his current Federally supported projects is the development of a data mining platform used by thousands of researchers worldwide, integrated with software that is capable of detecting subtle patterns in complex data networks. Its goals and methods are similar to those required for innovative approaches to finance. He is prepared to assume full-time CEO responsibilities of CQA during its start-up phase.

Mark Kon

Co-founder of CQA, is professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University, and is affiliated with the Bioinformatics Program and the program in Computational Neuroscience. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT, and has Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology from Cornell. He has had appointments at Columbia University as Assistant and Associate Professor (Computer Science, Mathematics), and at Harvard and at MIT as visiting Professor. He has approximately 120 publications in mathematics, statistical machine learning, computational biology and neuroscience, statistics, quantum information and mathematical physics, including one book. His recent work in learning theory has investigated complexities of designs for learning machines and neural networks which improve, sometimes significantly, on those for standard architectures, with application areas including finance, and computational biology and neuroscience. He has had research grants and contracts from the American Fulbright Commission, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Air Force.