Joe Marks grew up in Dublin, Ireland. He earned three degrees from Harvard University. His areas of interest include computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. Prior to founding Upfront Analytics, Joe created and led Disney Research, the premier technology lab in Media & Entertainment, where he oversaw several hundred research projects in applied computing. Prior to that, he was the research director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. Joe was 2007 conference chair and chairman of the conference advisory group for ACM SIGGRAPH.