David received PhD in Statistics from the University of Adelaide in mid-2015. He is a statistician and mathematical modeller, with a research focus on the optimal design of experiments, in particular, those concerning infectious diseases.

He joined the University of Melbourne in November 2017 as a Research Fellow, at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. Prior to this, David was a research associate in the Disease Dynamics Unit at the University of Cambridge, where he aided in the development of a computational package to facilitate the optimal design and statistical analysis of laboratory experiments in microbiology and infectious disease research.