David Gruber — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder & President of Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a nonprofit organization focused on interspecies communication.
Distinguished Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Leads pioneering scientific discoveries in understanding the communication system of sperm whales.
Invented technologies to perceive the underwater world from the perspective of marine animals.
Collaborated with the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory to engineer gentle robots for ocean interaction.
Recipient of the Lagrange Prize in complex systems science for advancements in biodiversity conservation.
Explorer for the National Geographic Society.

Biography

David Gruber serves as the Founder and President of Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the largest and most interdisciplinary interspecies communication effort to date. Through Project CETI, he has led pioneering scientific discoveries aimed at understanding the communication system of sperm whales.