Tamay Aykut
InvestorFounderAdvisor - AI Invention at Kicker Ventures · Founder, CEO at Sureel
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedSureel
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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.
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Experience
- Sureel Inc.Founder & CEOcurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Kicker VenturesAI Advisorcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- IEEE Standards AssociationVice Chaircurrent2022 — presentCalifornia, United States
- SnowcrashAdvisor2023 — 2024Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- SnowcrashCTO2021 — 2022Los Angeles, California, United States
- HOTG.AIAdvisor2021 — 2022Palo Alto, California, United States
- CareX.AICo-Founder & CTO2020 — 2022Mountain View, California, United States
- Wyss Institute at Harvard UniversityAI Subcommittee2021 — 2022Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
- Max Planck Institute for InformaticsGroup Lead2019 — 2021Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
- Stanford UniversityVisiting Assistant Professor2019 — 2021Metropolregion San Francisco Bay Area
- Technical University MunichSenior Researcher2019Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- Technical University MunichPHD2016 — 2019Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2016Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2015 — 2016Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2012 — 2015Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- BMW GroupSoftware Engineer2011 — 2012Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Technical University of MunichStudent Intern2014 — 2015Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- AtosEngineer Intern2014New York City Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
Generative Neural Networks4Java3Presentations6Problem Solving8Operational Excellence4Human Computer Interaction4Communication3Leadership7Management4Large Language Models (LLM)5GPT-43Computer-Vision12
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Deep 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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David Samuelson
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Debbie Huang
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Ethan Goh
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Flora Pieters
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Tamay Aykut?
- 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.
- Where does Tamay Aykut work?
- Tamay Aykut is Founder, CEO of Sureel and Advisor - AI Invention at Kicker Ventures.
- What companies did Tamay Aykut found?
- Tamay Aykut founded Sureel.
- Where did Tamay Aykut go to school?
- Tamay Aykut studied at Technical University of Munich (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence); Technical University of Munich (Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering); Technical University of Munich (Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering).
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