Dan Desjardins, PhD

Dan Desjardins, PhD - CEO at Distributive

Dan Desjardins, PhD is the CEO and co-founder of Distributive, a Canadian software infrastructure company with the vision of providing abundant, low-cost computing power to enable AI, data analytics and research computing applications.135

Educational Background

• Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Space Science from the Royal Military College of Canada (2009)
• Master of Science degree in Physics from the Royal Military College of Canada (2009-2011)
• Attended the International Space University's Space Studies Program (2010)
• Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics from Queen's University (2012-2015), specializing in computational electromagnetics
• Participated in an exchange program at the United States Air Force Academy in 2008, focusing on Physics and Astronautical Engineering1

Professional Experience

• Search and Rescue CC130H Pilot at the Department of National Defence (2012-2016)
• Assistant Professor in Physics & Space Science at the Royal Military College of Canada (2016-2022)
• CEO at Distributive since January 2018135

Distributive's Mission

Distributive has developed a next-generation computing platform that stitches together all computers and laptops in one room or building to form a supercomputer that deploys parallel workloads across any device or digital infrastructure.2

The company aims to unlock the massive amount of latent compute power found in everyday devices and put it to work for data science, machine learning, AI research computing, physics, chemistry, astrophysics and more.2

Distributive is already supporting Canadian researcher projects and AI/ML/MV tech startups through its distributed compute platform.4