David Wood
Co-Founder at Grayscale AI
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wood is a data-driven founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building machine learning systems and fast algorithms to solve real-world product discovery problems. As Co-Founder of Moonsift he combines practical startup leadership with hands-on engineering, turning research-grade ML into user-facing recommendation engines that prioritise user preference over advertising bias. His PhD in computational neuroscience—where he reconstructed fruit fly larval connectomes from terabytes of imaging data—gives him deep expertise in large-scale data processing, probabilistic modelling and biologically inspired computation. He has blended this technical background with industry-facing roles, from advising a neuromorphic-vision startup to delivering cloud-based analytics at S2DS that influenced retail marketing spend. Comfortable across the stack, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor, product focus and experience securing pre-seed backing through rapid prototyping. Based in Edinburgh with international research experience, he’s driven by building recommendation systems that feel both surprising and genuinely relevant.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Neuroscience at The University of EdinburghMasters Degree, Physics, Masters Degree, Physics at University of OxfordJapanese as a foreign language, Japanese as a foreign language at Japan University of Economics
German, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
owl8
ontology8
anatomy8
ontologies8
python5
javascript2
visualizer2
neuroscience2
visualization1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fewtrem/dockerTest
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
fewtrem/larvalsearch
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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