2006, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; 2003, SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; 2000, BEng, Carleton University, Aerospace Engineering
Biological flight, micro aerial vehicles, computational aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, wind energy.
David was born in Nairobi, Kenya. At the age of 14 he moved to Canada. Following his undergraduate education at Carleton University, he attended MIT for his graduate studies. His postdoctoral work was performed at MIT and Brown University.