Pascal Wieler
FounderFounder at Basepilot
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedBasepilot · YC
About
Pascal Wieler is co-founder of Basepilot. He holds an MSc in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department and KIT, and previously co-founded a robotics startup, conducted research in robotic manipulation and imitation learning at Carnegie Mellon, and worked on autonomous vehicle development at Mercedes-Benz.
Founder at BasepilotYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Pascal went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Basepilot's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Pascal can intro founders to Basepilot's investors below.
Basepilot's investors · 1
Co-founders at Basepilot
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Ken HendricksFounder
Experience
- Basepilot (YC W24)Co-Foundercurrent2023 — presentСан-Франциско, CA
- Stealth StartupFounder2023 — 2024Metropolregion San Francisco Bay Area
- GoCharlyFounder2022 — 2023Berlin, Deutschland
- Entrepreneur FirstEntrepreneur @ Berlin Cohort BE72021Berlin, Deutschland
- Reasonance GmbHMachine Learning Engineer2020 — 2021Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
- Machine Learning Department | Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Scholar2018 — 2019Großraum Pittsburgh und Umgebung
- Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (KIT)Deep Learning Internship2018Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
- Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (KIT)Research Assistant2017Karlsruhe und Umgebung, Deutschland
- Fraunhofer IOSBComputer Vision & Deep Learning Internship2017 — 2018Karlsruhe und Umgebung, Deutschland
- Daimler AGResearch Intern2013 — 2016Stuttgart und Umgebung, Deutschland
- Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.Research Intern2015Sunnyvale
Skills & more
Maschinelles Lernen9Computer-Vision1Robotics1Automotive2Project Management1Research2Autonomous Driving2Deep Learning1Augmented Reality2Data Science1AlgorithmenInformatik
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Computer VisionReinforcement LearningArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningMustererkennungMatlabC++SimulinkLinuxMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeCLanguages Deutsch · Englisch · Französisch · Portugiesisch · Spanisch
- Hackdays Rhein-Neckar 2021 - Pepperl+Fuchs-Challenge: Object-Classification on Lidar-Data — hackdays
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Pascal Wieler?
- Pascal Wieler is co-founder of Basepilot. He holds an MSc in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department and KIT, and previously co-founded a robotics startup, conducted research in robotic manipulation and imitation learning at Carnegie Mellon, and worked on autonomous vehicle development at Mercedes-Benz.
- Where does Pascal Wieler work?
- Pascal Wieler is Founder of Basepilot.
- What companies did Pascal Wieler found?
- Pascal Wieler founded Basepilot.
- Where did Pascal Wieler go to school?
- Pascal Wieler studied at Y Combinator; Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Science (M.Sc.), Machine Learning); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science & Entrepreneurship).
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