Unity Technologies

Vice President of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Unity Technologies where he leads multiple initiatives in the field of applied artificial intelligence. Unity is the creator of a flexible and high-performance end-to-end development platform used to create rich interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences.

Uber and Amazon

Previously, Danny was head of machine learning at Uber, where he led the efforts to build a highly scalable ML platform to support all parts of Uber’s business from the Uber app to self-driving cars. Before joining Uber, Danny was general manager of Amazon Machine Learning, providing internal teams with access to machine intelligence. He also launched an AWS product that offers machine learning as a cloud service to the public.

General Magic and IBM

Danny spent 8 years on Speech Recognition Systems, first as CTO of General Magic, Inc., and then as founder of his own company, Vocomo Software. Danny started his career as a computer scientist at IBM Research.

University

Danny holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has numerous patents to his credit.