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David H. Silver is an industrial researcher whose career bridges computer vision, computational biology, and science communication. He studied mathematics, computer science, and biology at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology as a Rothschild Scholar, and was awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his doctoral work in computational biology at Cambridge, UK. Silver's peer-reviewed publications span multiple domains: computational biology in Nature ("The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans") and PNAS; computer vision systems in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; medical AI in Human Reproduction and MIDL; and entertainment analysis in PLoS One. His work on the Intel RealSense depth camera shipped in millions of consumer devices. He holds over a dozen patents in depth sensing and calibration (Intel, Apple), medical imaging and embryo assessment (Embryonics), and generative AI for food science (AKA Foods). His industry positions include Algorithm Engineer at Intel Corporation developing depth cameras, ML Researcher at Apple working on embedded vision systems, and CTO/co-founder roles at several technology startups. Silver maintains academic collaborations with researchers worldwide and serves as a peer reviewer for Image and Vision Computing and PNAS.