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Brendan David-John

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Virginia Tech

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David-John is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech’s Private Eye Lab.

He was the first Native American male to graduate with a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Florida in 2022. 

He regularly publishes at top VR/AR and eye-tracking venues (IEEE VR, ISMAR, ACM ETRA) and has received funding from CCI, 4-VA, Meta, DARPA, and NSF to support his research. He is a proud member of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society and has been a Sequoyah Fellow since 2013.

He holds a Ph.D. and a master’s in Computer Science and a bachelor’s in  Computational Mathematics.

Alma Maters

University of Florida

Rochester Institute of Technology