David Dao is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of GainForest.Earth, a decentralized science non-profit leveraging human-centered deep tech to address the climate and biodiversity crisis.

His work has earned recognition including the XPRIZE Rainforest, WEF Davos 50 and Ethereum Next Billion. David completed his PhD in AI Systems at ETH Zurich, where he co-initiated the field of data valuation for machine learning.