Our Team

Eric T. Dawson, PhD

Cofounder

Dr. Eric T. Dawson brings more than a decade of deep accelerated and massively-parallel computing experience to EarthFrame and, in collaboration with the rest of the leadership team, executes our corporate vision. As an undergraduate he was the first Biology major to compete in the Student Cluster Competition, helping lead the University of Texas to back-to-back victories before then completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Prior to EarthFrame he spent half a decade at NVIDIA where he led the development of workflows and AI inference products for genomic analysis and protein structure prediction.

Professor Keolu Fox, PhD

Cofounder

Prof. Keolu Fox, PhD. Professor Fox is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California San Diego. Professor Fox leads a research program that develops and deploys new technologies to improve genomics and enable Indigenous Data Sovereignty. With Dr. Dawson, Professor Fox started the Earth Friendly Computation community and continues to lead it today. Prof. Fox leads development of EarthFrame's benefit sharing models and many of our community engagements and partnerships, as well as contributing to our design process rooted in Indigenous Futurism, circular economic principles and systems thinking.

Yousuf W. Rajput, M.S.

Cofounder, Head of Software and Agentic Development

Yousuf leads software and agentic development at EarthFrame, bringing a unique perspective informed by his background in design and cognitive science. As a student in the Earth Friendly Computation seminar at UCSD, Yousuf contributed to two winning California CARES grants for Earth Friendly Computation concepts and led EFC’s publication exploring sustainable applications of AI in science and healthcare. Yousuf is a founding developer of EarthFrame and is actively building our suite of software products shaped by his experience in full-stack development, data science, sustainability, and health care.