Summary
David Painter is an award-winning cognitive neuroscientist and Data Science Product Developer with 15+ years of R&D experience and 8+ years building brain-computer interfaces, VR neurorehabilitation, and AI-enabled clinical products. He blends deep experimental design and neuroengineering expertise with practical product delivery—leading The Attention Atlas from prototype to prize-winning scale-up and driving generative AI, NLP, cloud automation, and clinical trial integration at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service. A published researcher (16 peer-reviewed papers) and competitive grant lead, he translates complex population-level epidemiology and real-time neurocognitive signals into robust analytics and deployable software. Equally at home negotiating commercialization deals as an adjunct research fellow, he pairs philosophical curiosity with hands-on game design and ML to tackle mental-health mortality and rehabilitation challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Queensland