David Dao is the Co-Founder of GainForest.Earth, a decentralized science non-profit leveraging emerging technologies to address the climate and biodiversity crisis. His work earned him the XPRIZE Rainforest Prize, and he is a leading contributor to research on data valuation in machine learning. David completed his postdoctoral research in environmental and computer science at ETH Zurich and conducted research at MIT, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. He holds a doctorate in computer science from ETH Zurich.
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Governing the Commons in the Intelligent Age
January 2025 - How GainForest combines AI and community wisdom to scale sustainable governance of natural commons through regenerative intelligence.