← Back to PeopleResearcherDavid MortensenResearcher at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLinkedIn@dmort27Leading a project to develop open-source software that automatically reconstructs proto-languages using AI.1Mentions1Articles1OutletsCompanies CoveredAmerican Institute of Physics1Ariel University1Austrian Academy of Sciences1Bar-Ilan University1Bielefeld University1Boston University1Brown University1Carnegie Mellon University1Cornell University1Durham University1George Mason University1Graz University of Technology1Indiana University Indianapolis1J.F. Oberlin University1Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences1ArticlesMost recent firstMentioned InReferenced in coverageSchmidt Sciences awards $10 million to one of the world’s largest AI and humanities research programsSchmidt SciencespositiveOct 14, 2026“Leading a project to develop open-source software that automatically reconstructs proto-languages using AI.”