Daniel Matthew Taub ( born 08/10/1984 ) graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 with a S.B. major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a minor in Biomedical Engineering, and a concentration in Japanese Language Studies. In 2007, Daniel attended the Y Combinator Startup School and shortly thereafter decided to return to Boston to work at a local startup company. Whilst working at Talking Lights, he expanded his electrical engineering abilities, built context-aware healthcare systems to assist people with brain injuries and those living with Alzheimer's disease, and published a paper evaluating their system.
In 2009, he returned to MIT to study user interfaces and to complete his EECS Master's at the Media Lab's Camera Culture group. He traveled to the United Kingdom as part of a collaboration with Microsoft Research Cambridge, using computer vision to develop the Bokode technology into a 6-DOF contactless optical pen. After completing his graduate degree, he worked as a research associate and programmer at FDO Partners, where he designed and implemented a framework to visualize the massive amount of data coming from the firm's daily operations in the global equities market. Daniel currently operates as a freelance consultant, involving himself with numerous start-ups and other ventures, including the Bioengineering company Ginkgo Bioworks, the DIY LED Lighting company SaikoLED, and the educational non-profit CEMMI. For more information, use the information in the CV above to contact contact him.
Last updated on Oct 18th, 2011 |