Clark Evans

Co-Director, Informatics
Tufts CTSI

Mr. Clark Evans is a veteran software developer. He is a founder of the YAML Project, a widely used human-readable data serialization language. He was previously the technical co-founder of Prometheus Research, a provider of integrated data management services for health research that is now part of IQVIA. For 16 years at Prometheus, he was the architect of numerous patient registries, including those at the Simons Foundation, the Marcus Autism Center, CureSMA, the Autism Biomarker Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT), the Children’s Hospital Association, the American Optometric Association, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), and the American Society of Hematology. Mr. Evans’ professional interests are biomedical query mediation processes and technologies, letting researchers more effectively design, perform, and publish their research. In his role as co-director of Tufts CTSI’s Informatics, Mr. Evans supports engineering management services, overseeing program operations and the delivery of data and analytic services to researchers. He also serves as an advisor to the Tufts Analytic Platform, an AI-powered predictive model development for patient and population-level analytics, multiscale biomarker discovery, and early-stage drug discovery activities.