Mark is from Lindon, Utah. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Mark spent summers in college as an intern for Citigroup, GE Consumer Finance, and Intel Corporation. He joined IDeA Labs in the summer of 2007, and began research in the Computational Economics and Financial Systems lab. His academic interests include stochastic processes, econometrics, and control theory. Mark graduated from BYU with bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. Following graduation, he went on to pursue a Master’s of Science and Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.