David Dao is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of GainForest.Earth, a decentralized science non-profit leveraging technology to address the climate and biodiversity crisis.
His work has earned several awards including the XPRIZE Rainforest, Microsoft AI for Earth, and Ethereum Next Billion.
David studied computer science at ETH Zurich, MIT, UC Berkeley, and Stanford and his scientific work has been widely cited (1700+).
He completed his PhD in AI Systems at ETH Zurich where he co-initiated the field of data valuation for machine learning.
David is a core contributor to open source software such as Google's Tensorflow and his code has been widely starred on Github (10K+).