David leads two Research Projects at the Wet Lab: Salton Sea Bird Ecology, and Data Science for Democracy. In addition to those projects, David leads the curation of Wet Labs website, brand, and business model and is also the former Wet Lab outreach coordinator.
David completed his doctoral work at MIT, where he studied the carbon cycle and respiration kinetics of microbial communities in soils and marine sediment. He has 4 years of experience as a data scientist at a San Diego tech company. He is working with the wet lab in order to create a novel platform to create, share, and collaborate on new ideas, and promote pragmatic, critical scientific discussion.