{"id":726,"date":"2019-07-30T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=726"},"modified":"2019-09-25T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:46:07","slug":"mark-kon","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/profile\/mark-kon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Kon applies the principles of quantum information and computation, as well as machine and statistical learning to solve long-standing sources of optimization problems. He is also affiliated with the Bioinformatics and Computational Neuroscience Programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Quantum probability, computation, and information<\/b>, with applications to the fields of computational biology and statistics, particularly focusing on protein folding, RNA structure, and DNA transcription.<\/li>\n<li><b>Machine learning in bioinformatics and computational biology<\/b>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including the inference of\u00a0 gene regulatory networks as well as the identification and classification of distinct types of cancers based on biomarkers like gene variation or microRNA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"label\">Quick Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=wVPc21cAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Publications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/726\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}