BioMark Diagnostics Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Randolph Ford to its Strategic Advisory team to enhance its data analytics and AI capabilities during the commercial acceleration of its early cancer detection technology. W. Randolph (Rand) Ford earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, along with a master's and bachelor's, from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a Professor and Director of the Data Science Ph.D. Program at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

Before that, he was Director of the Analytics M.S. Program at Harrisburg, Director of Analytics at the University of Maryland Global Campus, and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Hood College, where he also served as President of their Faculty. In addition, throughout his career, he has held C-level positions at six different companies. He has been awarded five patents and is active in academic and applied research.

His areas of interest are the analysis of unstructured data, natural language processing, and other areas of artificial intelligence. He has developed the leading technology in natural language processing four times in his career.