David Andre

David Andre is a scientist, an inventor, and an entrepreneur whose work emphasizes the role of learning. He is Chief Technical Officer for Cerebellum Capital, Inc, where he is building a black-box that predicts the markets. He is also a research consultant for BodyMedia, Inc. Until recently, he was Director of Research at BodyMedia, where he and his team collected and analyzed clinical and user data and used a variety of machine learning methods to develop algorithms that provide detailed and specific statements about human physiology and activity. His team collected what is perhaps the world's largest physiological database – approximately 2 million minutes per day, and this rate is increasing exponentially. Additionally, David continues to work on methods for automated program and agent design including various forms of reinforcement learning. He earned bachelors degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D in AI from Berkeley, where he was awarded a Hertz Fellowship. David also has co-founded several companies, including Blue Pumpkin Software, which makes workforce management software, and Just Passing Through, a company that creates and films multi-day puzzle adventures.