Research Interests

Dr. Mark is Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He also remains active in the practice of primary care internal medicine and geriatrics and is a Senior Physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Mark joined the MIT faculty in 1969, and also the faculty of the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the founding director of MIT's HST Biomedical Engineering Center for Clinical Instrumentation in 1975.

Dr. Mark's research activities include physiological signal processing and database development, cardiovascular modeling, and intelligent patient monitoring. His group has made major contributions to the technology of automated real-time ECG arrhythmia analysis. He led the group that developed the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database that has been widely distributed throughout the world and has greatly facilitated the development and evaluation of monitoring algorithms. Also, Dr. Mark is investigating techniques to more "intelligently" interpret the enormous volumes of clinical and physiologic data generated by patients in intensive care units. The goal is to solve the problem of information overload in the ICU, improve clinician-machine interface, decrease false alarm rates, and support decision-making.

Dr. Mark earned a SB from MIT and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT. He also earned his MD degree from Harvard Medical School.