David is a professor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with more than 20 years of teaching experience, specializing in Comparative Literature, Musicology, and Digital Humanities. His recent researches include “Blockchain construction in response to inequities within Russia’s recording and publishing industries,” “Construction of comparative database from two million audio files for Wende Museum, Los Angeles,” and etc. In addition, he is leading the Hyperledger Media & Entertainment Special Interest Group( ME-SIG) that focuses on the application of Hyperledger DLTs to media-specific and entertainment use cases. Such activity will automatically foreground topics such as decentralized metadata, digital distribution, copyright protection, royalty payments, value chains, NFTs (non-fungible tokens), tokenized content, counterfeit reduction, and registered digital ownership.