David Cardinal

David Cardinal serves as a Lecturer at Stanford University, where co-teaching responsibilities include graduate courses in Image Systems Engineering and MRI physics alongside Brian Wandell and Joyce Farrell, while also contributing to the development of simulation tools. This role follows a longstanding career in various positions including Contributing Author at Ziff-Davis Publishing and Datacolor Expert at Datacolor, where contributions include writing and product testing. Cardinal is also the Principal at Cardinal Photo / Pro Shooters LLC, specializing in nature and travel photography. Past roles include Board Member at Pictopia, member of the Digital Imaging Advisory Group at Microsoft, and management positions at Summit Preparatory High School, Calico Commerce, and FirstFloor Software, the latter of which Cardinal co-founded and led as CTO. Cardinal earned a BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University.