Dan was eventually able to sit down and earn a degree in Physics and Astronomy from Pomona College. He's contributed research towards planetary science, adaptive optics, and galaxy formation at Caltech and Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Afterwards, Dan took his skills in image processing and joined an entrepreneurial community in New York. He was recruited by Sync Think and the Brain Trauma Foundation to develop a novel, high-performance, mobile eye tracking system.