Hey! I’m David.

I’m a research scientist at Cerebras Systems, where I develop high-performance scientific applications for the Wafer-Scale Engine. I also wrote some of the world’s fastest libraries for high-precision math and nonlinear optimization and discovered new state-of-the-art algorithms for floating-point arithmetic and solving differential equations.

I recently graduated with a Ph.D. from the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. You’ve probably seen me if you live in the area — I’m the guy with the big hair and the ukulele. On the rare occasion that I wasn’t holding an impromptu uke concert, I also directed an a cappella group and performed in musical theatre productions.

I previously studied mathematics, physics, computer science, and scientific computing at Vanderbilt University. If you were a freshman in 2015, you might have known me as the guy who played guitar in the Hank House north stairwell.

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