Dr. David M. Greenberg (Yeshaya David) is a cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist whose research explores music at the intersection of medicine, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. His work uses advanced computational models to understand how the acoustical elements of music interact with the human brain and emotion, with applications for personalized medicine and conditions such as autism and PTSD.

He was previously an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cambridge where he served as Co–Chief Principal Investigator on clinical music therapy trials in autism. He has raised over $2.85 million in research funding and published more than 55 scientific articles in leading journals, such as Nature, PNAS, and the American Psychologist.

He is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of CHIME Health AI Inc., whose patent-pending technology uses human responses to music to screen for neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions. A trained saxophonist, Dr. Greenberg studied jazz performance at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Dr. Greenberg serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Music Therapy and Musicae Scientiae and is a Trustee and Board Member of the Music Therapy Charity (UK). He is also a member of the APEX Consortium at Cambridge, a major multinational collaboration investigating how prenatal biology, genetics, and sex-differentiated neurodevelopment shape autism diagnosis.

He has also built large-scale citizen science platforms that have engaged 1.78 million participants globally, including the Sound Mind Databank (formerly the Musical Universe project)—the world’s most extensive phenotypic database on music and mental health, comprising one billion data points from 350,000 individuals across 150 countries. This makes it possible to generate much needed research and tools for precision medicine for decades to come. This unprecedented resource will serve as a foundation for new breakthroughs and digital tools in music and medicine for decades to come.

In his TEDx talk in Ramat Aviv, Dr. Greenberg shared how his life’s work was inspired by the memories of his grandfather’s singing, which comforted him as an infant in intensive care recovering from a life-threatening condition.