David Wild, Ph.D.

David Wild, Ph.D.

Professor of Data Science | Startup Founder | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Drug Discovery | Crisis Technologies | Cybersecurity & Privacy

After a career leading scientific computing teams creating some of the first big data tools in the pharmaceutical industry, I have spent the last twenty years innovating at the intersection of academia, industry and entrepreneurship.

I founded Indiana University's graduate data science programs, scaling them to 300 graduate students per year, including one of the first and most successful online programs. My Integrative Data Science Lab has carried out foundational research in semantic and graph technologies for cheminformatics and drug discovery - you can find my publications on Google Scholar. My current work spans AI, data science, privacy and cybersecurity with applications in healthcare, biomedical science and emergency response.

I am also driving multiple initiatives to grow startups and talent pipelines across academia and industry. In 2019 I launched the $10m RedLab accelerator focused on AI and data technologies for emergency and disaster response. My own companies include Konnex.ai, a first-wave AI company solving a foundational problem in disaster management, and Data2Discovery, a company pioneering in AI and data science for drug discovery launched in 2012.

I am currently Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University. You can connect with me on LinkedIn or contact me at connect (at) djwild.info.