About David
I am a…
Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Scientist
Bio
David Gruber is the Founder and President of Project CETI, the Cetacean Translation Initiative, the world’s largest interdisciplinary effort and Audacious Project focused on understanding whale communication. He is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York and a National Geographic Explorer.
I'm passionate about
ocean science, interspecies communication, nonhuman communication, environmental science, whales, interdisciplinary science, collaboration, marine biology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, linguistics, robotics, natural language processing, protopian futures, freediving
An idea worth spreading
Using AI to translating the language of whales
Areas of expertise
Corals, Genomics, Interdisciplinary, Jellyfish, Machine Learning, Marine Biology, Oceanography, Oceans, Robotics, Sharks, Turtles, Whales
The TED story
My first TED Talk was on Mission Blue II, Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures.
My second TED Talk was at TED2020, Can we learn to talk to sperm whales? as part of the Audacious Project cohort where Project CETI was catalyzed!
Things you might not know
diving under icebergs at night