Dr. Samuels' PhD is in Physics, from the University of Oregon. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, NASA, and at Emory University. Later, he was Reader in Applied Mathematics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. At Newcastle, David began to work with members of the Neurology department in the medical school. In 2002 David moved to the new bioinformatics research institute at Virginia Tech to devote his research to biomedical work, in collaboration with several clinical and lab researchers.