James W. Lark, III
About
Recipient of various academic honors, scholarships, and fellowships
Developed solution procedure for finite-horizon partially observed Markov decision processes that is now known in the research literature as the “Lark algorithm” (or “Lark filtering algorithm”)
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Public Choice, Va. Tech, 1982-83
Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 1983
Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Spring 1984
Earhart Foundation Visiting Fellow, Center for Research in Government Policy and Business, Graduate School of Management, University of Rochester, 1984-85
Director of Research, DRA Research, Charlottesville, Virginia and San Jose, California, 1993 - 1998
Various faculty appointments (Department of Systems and Information Engineering, McIntire School of Commerce, Department of Statistics, Center for Applied Mathematics), University of Virginia, 1993 - present
Assistant to the Athletics Director for Special Projects, University of Virginia, 2003-2009
Education
Ph.D. Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, 1990
B.S. Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977
A procedure I developed (now known in the literature as the "Lark algorithm") has been useful in the study of probabilistic models of important problems.