David Rushing Dewhurst
Program Manager
Information Innovation Office
Dr. David Rushing Dewhurst joined DARPA as a program manager in April 2024 to design, execute, and transition programs at the nexus of technology and economic strategy. His research interests include financial intelligence, the design of economic mechanisms and financial assets, capital markets, and payment systems.
Before joining DARPA as a program manager, Dewhurst served as a technical advisor for government research and development programs at the agency and was a Capstone Fellow at Yale University. Dewhurst also worked as a senior scientist at a defense research and development firm, a risk management data scientist in the financial industry, and a computer scientist at a federally funded research and development center.
Dewhurst earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics, mathematics, and political science, an M.S. in mathematics, and a doctorate in complex systems and data science, all from the University of Vermont. He also attended the Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures at the University of Montreal.