Daniel is a recent recipient of an Ontario Early Researcher Award and Google Faculty Research Award. Before joining U of T, Daniel held a Newton International Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Daniel earned his S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: his dissertation on probabilistic programming won an MIT EECS Sprowls Dissertation Award. Daniel's group works on foundations of machine learning and statistics.