Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism New York, New York Connect Connect with Mark Hansen Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism University of California, Berkeley See contact info 500+ connections Mark Hansen joined Columbia Journalism School in July of 2012 and took on the position of inaugural director of the east coast branch of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Prior to joining Columbia, he was a professor at UCLA, holding appointments in the Department of Statistics, the Department of Design Media Arts and the Department of Electrical Engineering. He was also a Co-PI for Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, an NSF Science and Technology Center devoted to the study of sensor networks. Prior to UCLA, Hansen was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. For nearly three decades, Hansen has been working at the intersection of data, art and technology. Hansen has an active art practice involving the presentation of data for the public. His work with Ben Rubin, Jer Thorp and The Office for Creative Research has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, the Whitney Museum, the Reina Sofia, the London Science Museum, the Cartier Foundation in Paris, and the lobbies of the New York Times building and the Public Theater and the 9/11 Memorial Museum (permanent displays) in Manhattan. In terms of his journalistic experience, Hansen had been a long-standing visiting researcher at the New York Times R&D Lab, a late-career intern at the Marshall Project, and a consultant with HBO Sports. Hansen teaches mainly advanced data analysis and computational journalism at Columbia. In 2018, Hansen’s Computational Journalism course at Columbia Journalism School contributed the original reporting for the New York Times’ piece, "The Follower Factory," which exposed the bot economy behind the sale of fake followers on Twitter. His current obsession is with the 2020 Census. Hansen holds a BS in Applied Math from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD and MA in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been awarded eight patents and has published over 60 papers in data science, statistics and computer science. cv.pdf cv.pdf Show less Show less of Mark’s summary Experience Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism Company NameColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism Dates EmployedJul 2012 – Present Employment Duration6 yrs 10 mos LocationNew York City, NY Professor and Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Brown Institute for Media Innovation Director Company NameBrown Institute for Media Innovation Dates EmployedJul 2012 – Present Employment Duration6 yrs 10 mos LocationNew York City UCLA Professor Company NameUCLA Dates EmployedApr 2003 – Jun 2012 Employment Duration9 yrs 3 mos LocationLos Angeles Bell Laboratories Member of the Technical Staff Company NameBell Laboratories Dates EmployedMay 1994 – Nov 2002 Employment Duration8 yrs 7 mos Education University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley Degree NameM.A. and Ph.D. Field Of StudyStatistics Dates attended or expected graduation 1987 – 1994 University of California, Davis University of California, Davis Degree NameM.S. Field Of StudyApplied Mathematics Dates attended or expected graduation 1982 – 1987