Founding Board Member
David is a Principal Scientist at Pandora Media in California, where he uses controlled experiments to measure the effects of advertising on purchases and other consumer behavior. He previously was a professor at Vanderbilt University and at the University of Arizona. A member of the PGSS class of 1986, he subsequently served as a physics TA in 1989 and 1991. He holds a bachelor’s degree in astrophysical sciences from Princeton and a PhD in economics from MIT. He is passionate about PGSS because it is the only educational institution he’s ever been associated with where all the students wanted to learn and all the teachers wanted to teach. He lives in Berkeley with his wife Jill Sazama.