About
Brief Bio
Daniel S. Griffin has a PhD in Information Science from the UC Berkeley School of Information. His dissertation, Situating Web Searching in Data Engineering: Admissions, Extensions, Repairs, and Ownership, explored the use of web search by data engineers.
Current Work
- CEO at Hypandra (Sep 2025 - Present)
Protecting and promoting curiosity through question reflections, curiosity games, AI literacy workshops, and LLM comparison tools.
Previous Experience
- Sales Engineer & DevRel at Trieve (Jul 2024 - Oct 2024)
Search audits, demos, office hours, repairs, and sales. - Assistant Professor at Michigan State University (Jan 2023 - May 2023)
Teaching position within Lyman Briggs College. - Co-Director, Center for Technology, Society & Policy (Aug 2017 - Aug 2019)
UC Berkeley - Multidisciplinary research and design center.