David is a PostDoc at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, Germany in 2014, and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Potsdam, Germany in 2008.

Davids research focuses on scalable tools for parallel programming. His research interests include performance analysis of parallel applications, parallel and distributed architectures, message-passing implementations, tool support for parallel programming, and parallel programming paradigms.