Danyal Akarca
Co-founder at Callosum
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDanyal Akarca is a co-founder and interdisciplinary researcher working at the nexus of AI, computational neuroscience, and intelligent systems, with eight years of experience bridging academic research and startup building. He holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience & AI from Cambridge and currently combines roles as a Schmidt Fellow and Imperial College Research Fellow while visiting the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit. His work is funded by Schmidt Futures, ARIA, and the John Templeton Foundation, reflecting a focus on foundational paradigms in brain-inspired computing. At Callosum he is translating lab innovations into applied systems, bringing both clinical-trained medical insight and deep technical expertise to product development. Not obvious from titles: he maintains active collaborations across Imperial and Cambridge that blend experimental neurobiology with scalable AI compute strategies.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Neuroscience & AI, PhD Computational Neuroscience & AI at University of CambridgeBMedSc BMBS Medicine, BMedSc BMBS Medicine at University of Southampton
English, Turkish, FrenchProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DanAkarca/Hidden-Markov-Modelling-MEG
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
DanAkarca/AdaptiveStochasticity
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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