Mark Kennedy serves as the Director of the Data Science Institute and the Director of Imperial Business Analytics at Imperial College London, where also holds the position of Associate Professor of Strategy and Organisation. Prior to this, Mark Kennedy was an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California from 2002 to August 2012. Earlier in the career, Mark Kennedy worked at CSC Index as an Associate to Principal and at Calera Recognition Systems (later acquired by Palantir) as a Software Engineer and Product Manager. Mark Kennedy holds a PhD in Organizations and Sociology and an MBA in Strategy, Marketing, and Organisation Behaviour from Northwestern University, as well as an A.B. in Philosophy with a focus on Formal Systems from Stanford University.