Mason is a deep tech executive, AI entrepreneur, researcher and engineer. He is the CTO of Ro (Research online), currently leading engineering and infrastructure for large-scale health research online. He also serves as the Head of AI/Data Science at McMaster's Vascular AI Lab, and as a college professor in computer science and digital health and is the author of the textbook "Pearls and Perils of Machine Learning", utilized in multiple academic courses. His eclectic and deep background combines interpretable machine learning, technology, data science, cognitive science, physiology, medical imaging, and business to lead research innovations. He has PhD training in Computer Science and holds a Master of Applied Science in Biomedical Engineering (Interpretable Machine Learning, Clinical Decision Support; Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University) and a Master of Science in Neuroscience (Cognitive Effort, Attention; Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University). He also received an Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Human-Computer Interaction, Executive Functions; Brain and Mind Institute, Western University). Beyond his degrees, Mason has certification in high performance computing (Compute Ontario), university teaching (Western University), and machine learning theory (University of Oxford). He was recently award $90,000 and $120,000 for entrepreneurship and research initiatives, respectively; with featured and highly cited papers in top tier journals (IEEE, AAAI)