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Tamay Aykut

Investor

Advisor - AI Invention at Kicker Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Tamay Aykut is the founder and CEO of Sureel Inc., which he established in 2022 to develop explainable AI and patented attribution technology. He earned his PhD from TU Munich, receiving the Nokia Bell Labs Best Student Award and the Kurt-Fischer Doctorate Award, and served as a visiting assistant professor through Stanford's Junior Research Group Program, leading AI research at the Max-Planck Center. He has authored peer-reviewed publications and patents and served on Harvard's AI Subcommittee at the Wyss Institute.

Experience

  1. Sureel Inc.Founder & CEOcurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Kicker VenturesAI Advisorcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  3. IEEE Standards AssociationVice Chaircurrent2022 — presentCalifornia, United States
  4. SnowcrashAdvisor2023 — 2024Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
  5. SnowcrashCTO2021 — 2022Los Angeles, California, United States
  6. HOTG.AIAdvisor2021 — 2022Palo Alto, California, United States
  7. CareX.AICo-Founder & CTO2020 — 2022Mountain View, California, United States
  8. Wyss Institute at Harvard UniversityAI Subcommittee2021 — 2022Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
  9. Max Planck Institute for InformaticsGroup Lead2019 — 2021Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
  10. Stanford UniversityVisiting Assistant Professor2019 — 2021Metropolregion San Francisco Bay Area
  11. Technical University MunichSenior Researcher2019Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
  12. Technical University MunichPHD2016 — 2019Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
  13. BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2016Munich, Bavaria, Germany
  14. BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2015 — 2016Munich, Bavaria, Germany
  15. BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2012 — 2015Munich, Bavaria, Germany
  16. BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2011 — 2012Munich, Bavaria, Germany
  17. Technical University of MunichStudent Intern2014 — 2015Munich, Bavaria, Germany
  18. AtosEngineer Intern2014New York City Metropolitan Area

Education

  1. Technical University of MunichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence2016 — 2019
  2. Technical University of MunichMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering2013 — 2016
  3. Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering2010 — 2013
  4. Theodolinden-GymnasiumAbitur2000 — 2010

Skills & more

Generative Neural Networks4Java3Presentations6Problem Solving8Operational Excellence4Human Computer Interaction4Communication3Leadership7Management4Large Language Models (LLM)5GPT-43Computer-Vision12
+12 moreDeep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)RoboticsMachine LearningData ScienceC++LinuxMatlabMachine VisionMachine Learning AlgorithmsNeural NetworksVirtual Reality (VR)

Languages English · German · Turkish

  • House of Web3 Co-Creation Contributor — Edge & Node House of Web3
  • Smart Contracts — The State University of New York
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI
  • Control of Mobile Robots — Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization Coursera — DeepLearning.AI

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Colleagues at Kicker Ventures

Adeola Fagunloye
Fellow - Regulatory Strategy at Kicker Ventures
Alex Yang
Fellow - Innovation & Operations at Kicker Ventures
Brian Han
Advisor - Clinical Strategy at Kicker Ventures
David Samuelson
Advisor - Life Science Commercial Strategy at Kicker Ventures
Debbie Huang
Fellow - AI Innovation at Kicker Ventures
Ethan Goh
Advisor - Clinical AI at Kicker Ventures
Flora Pieters
Intern at Kicker Ventures
Gregg Shibata
Advisor - Health Plans at Kicker Ventures

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