Hannes Bretschneider
Chief AI Officer at Katalyze AI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHannes Bretschneider is Chief AI Officer at Katalyze AI with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and product-grade machine learning systems. He previously advanced ML-driven therapeutics as a Machine Learning Scientist II at Fable Therapeutics and spent a decade at the University of Toronto completing a PhD and postdoctoral research in computational biomedical fields. A co-founder and former Chief Software Architect of Deep Genomics, he brings hands-on startup and architecture experience alongside deep research credentials. His background includes research internships at Microsoft and Yahoo! Labs and early international training in Germany and Canada, giving him a global, interdisciplinary perspective. Known for translating complex scientific problems into scalable AI platforms, he pairs rigorous experimental methodology with pragmatic engineering to drive real-world impact. Based in Toronto, he combines leadership, research pedigree, and product sensibility to scale AI solutions in life sciences and beyond.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange, Exchange at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of TorontoMSc, MSc at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Github Skills (109)
python10
python-client10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
client-library9
snakemake9
cudnn9
genomics9
chainer9
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hannes-brt/FlowVB
Aug 2010 - May 2011
Contributions:135 commits in 9 months
PSI-Lab/BENTO-Seq
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 pushes in 9 months
estimationseqrna-seqbootstraprna
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