Charles Fisher
Co-Founder at EPIC Ventures
Chelsea, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Fisher is a founder and machine learning scientist who blends theoretical physics and AI to build products that remove trial-and-error from complex domains like medicine and education. With a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard and nine years of industry experience, he founded Unlearn.AI to accelerate clinical trials using generative models and now leads multiple ventures including Collaborative Computing and NOY Fitness. His background spans hands-on ML engineering at Leap Motion and Pfizer, plus academic contributions to microbiome modeling and feature selection in big data. Charles has published scholarly work and authored The Relentless Startup, signaling a rare combination of deep theory, practical product-building, and entrepreneurial storytelling. Based in Chelsea, Michigan, he frequently bridges academic rigor and startup velocity to ship impactful, regulation-aware AI for life sciences. An underappreciated thread through his career is a consistent emphasis on interpretable models that translate physics-inspired insights into deployable ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Biophysics, B.S. Biophysics at University of MichiganPh.D. Biophysics, Ph.D. Biophysics at Harvard University
Github Skills (20)
machine-learning10
generative10
unsupervised-learning10
density-estimation10
stochastic-processes10
rbm10
generative-model10
pytorch9
python9
deep-learning9
rna-seq9
genomics8
variance8
bioinformatics8
monte-carlo5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drckf/DrivenSampler
Mar 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
samplersequilibriummachinesboltzmann-machinestraining
drckf/paysage
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
Unsupervised learning and generative models in python/pytorch.
Contributions:1 release, 614 commits, 111 PRs in 1 year 6 months
pytorchpythonunsupervised-learningdeep-learningunsupervised
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