Prof. David J Lary

David John Lary completed a first-class double-honors B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry at King’s College London with the Sambrooke Exhibition Prize in Natural Science, and a Ph.D. in the photochemical computer modeling of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Cambridge. The thread running through all of his research is pre-emptive human protection and holistic sensing in the service of society through the use of machine learning and data-driven insights using observation and automation to facilitate discovery, with a focus on the area of human health. He held positions at Cambridge University from 1991 to 2001, including being a faculty member and receiving a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 1998, he was awarded the first Alon Fellowship in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Space Science at the University of Tel Aviv. In 2000, the chief scientific adviser to the British Prime Minister and Head of the British Office of Science and Technology, Professor Sir David King, recommended David to be appointed as a Cambridge University lecturer in Chemical Informatics in the world’s first department of chemical informatics. In 2001, David was invited to join NASA for his work on data assimilation as the first distinguished Goddard fellow in Earth Science, where he stayed until 2010, receiving six NASA awards for his research and technology development. He is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Dallas Hanson Center for Space Sciences.