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 (21)
simulation10
data-structure10
algorithms9
modeling9
data-structures9
mesh-processing8
numerical-methods8
animation8
computer-graphics7
python6
geometry-processing5
robotics5
segmentation3
cpp3
python-bindings3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
diku-dk/PROX
Jul 2020 - Apr 2025
Research related to computational modeling on projects for contact, biomechanics, soft robots and more
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 9 months
biomechanicscomputational-modelingsimulationmodelingcomputational-biology
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
computer-graphics
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