Kenny Erleben
CEO & Founder at IRE - Intelligent Robotic Endoscopes for Improved Healthcare Services
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolKenny Erleben is a technology founder and academic leader with 11+ years of experience translating physics-based simulation research into commercial medical and robotics products. As CEO and co-founder of DARERL and coordinator/PI of the IRE project, he combines deep expertise in computational contact mechanics and simulator development with hands-on startup scaling and consortium management. He has led education and research units at the University of Copenhagen—driving significant improvements in student retention and departmental revenue—while also serving on Skypuzzler’s board to help scale drone innovations. Known for building simulators used across game physics, robot learning and surgical device design, he blends strategic, organizational and people skills to move hard research into real clinical and industrial impact. An experienced lab manager and serial innovator, he often sits at the interface of basic research, applied R&D and productization.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
English, Danish, Swedish, German
Github Skills (29)
rapid10
modeling10
simulation9
placement9
rapid-development9
data-structures9
playing7
computer-graphics7
science7
cpp6
coding6
numerical-methods6
physics6
animation6
computer-science5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
erleben/pyREES
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Python framework for Robust Easy Environment for Simulation (pyREES)
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
pythonmultiprocessingsimulationpython-frameworkmodeling-tool
diku-dk/ComputerGrafikProjektStudents
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Student version of framework for solving assignments on the computer graphics course offered by department of computer science university of copenhagen. Copyright Knud & Kenny, 2019
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years
cppsciencesolvingplacementcomputer-graphics
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