About

David is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at University of Toronto, starting July 2026. He is currently a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute.

David holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Case Western Reserve University and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow studying under Steve Strogatz and Jim Sethna. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center from 2022-2025, working with Yuhai Tu.

David’s current research focuses on collective behaviors in biology, using tools from statistical physics and dynamical systems to understand the physical principles underlying variety of phenomena in molecular and cellular biology: from signal processing and stochastic gene expression to nonequilibrium phase transitions.