I am Co-Founder and CEO at Coplay. We are building an AI assistant for game developers. I.e. Cursor for Unity.
I was the Co-Founder and CEO at Remio. We built a VR team-building and collaboration platform for enterprise, with notable customers such as Google, Hubspot, Netflix, Home Depot, and more. Our more successful product was a VR kids-game called Animal Blocks, which is simlar to Minecraft, but built for VR.
Remio became profitable and I moved on to start my next company, Coplay.
I was the Co-Founder and CEO at Kristalic. We built AI-powered automatic summarization and action item extraction for business meetings. We trained BERT models and SincNets.
My PhD at Cambridge University was focused on the Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) neural network model in the context of biomedical time-series data (ECG, EEG, glucose, etc.). Specifically, I was interested in using LSTM models to predict patient risks and outcomes from ICU data.
I was part of the Signal Processing and Information Engineering group at the Engineering Department. Here I was fortunate to overlap with Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen from the CBL group, and Alex Kendall who founded Wayve at the desk next to me.
I managed to finish my PhD in 2.5 years and squeezed in a few startup attempts on the side, which is where the startup bug bit me.
Started my MEng in Biomedical Engineering at Stellenbosch University. Worked on Self-Organizing Maps for EEG classification. I.e. machine learning applied to brain signals. This is where I first got into machine learning. I dropped out to start my PhD at Cambridge.
BEng in Mechatronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University. This is where I got into biomedical engineering and robotics -- the team I lead won the national Pneudrive Challenge in 2014 with an autonomous pallet stacking robot. I graduated top of my class with a Cum Laude.