Location
Olsson Hall 101I
P.O. Box 400747
Charlottesville, VA 22904

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.

James W. Lark, III Associate Professor

Research Interests

Computational Statistics and Simulation/Statistical Modeling
Risk and Decision Analysis
Optimization Models and Methods
Stochastic Modeling

Selected Publications

"A Best-First Search Algorithm Guided by a Set-Valued Heuristic," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 25 (1995), pp. 1097-1101. J. LARK, C.C. WHITE, III AND K. SYVERSON
Abstract
"The Admissibility of a Generalization of A*," Transactions of the Sixth Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing (May-June, 1988), Boulder, CO, pp. 893-902. J. LARK, C.C. WHITE, III
Abstract
"Spectral Theorems for a Class of Toeplitz Operators on the Bergman Space" Houston Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 12 (1986), pp. 397-404. J. LARK

Courses Taught

APMA 3080 Linear Algebra
APMA 3110 Applied Statistics and Probability
APMA 3120 Statistics
PSYC 7710 Quantitative Methods I: Probability and Statistical Inference
STAT 2020/5000: Biostatistics/Introduction to Applied Statistics
SYS 2004 Data and Information Management
SYS 3062 Simulation
SYS 4000 Financial Aspects of Engineering
SYS 4044/6044 Economics of Engineering Systems
SYS 4581 Special Topics - Probability
SYS 6003 Optimization I

Awards

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, International Council on Systems Engineering 2011