Mark Daley, PhD

Vice-President, Research, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
Faculty Member, Vector Institute
Professor, Departments of Computer Science; Biology; Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Mathematics; and Statistics & Actuarial Science, Western University

Mark Daley is the Vice-President, Research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and a Professor in six departments at Western University (Computer Science; Biology; Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Mathematics; and Statistics & Actuarial Science). He is also appointed as a faculty affiliate at The Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and an associate scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. Daley chairs the board of Compute Ontario and serves on the Ontario Research Fund Advisory Board and the board of directors of IC/ES. He is also co-founder of CanCOVID, an expert network of Canadian COVID-19 researchers, clinical collaborators, and health-care professionals. He was Associate Vice-President (Research) of Western University from 2015–2019 and in 2019 was appointed Western University’s Special Advisor to the President on Data Strategy.