Kilian Koepsell
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer (acquired By GE Healthcare)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKilian Koepsell is a visionary AI and product leader with nearly two decades translating deep scientific research into commercial healthcare impact. As co-founder and CTO of Caption Health he helped build the first FDA-authorized AI-guided ultrasound system, raising over $70M and scaling the company through acquisition by GE HealthCare, where he now serves as Chief Innovation Officer. He combines a PhD-level background in physics and neuroscience with hands-on engineering and 50+ patent filings to lead global programs and an AI Center of Excellence that deploy diagnostic AI at scale. Kilian has a proven track record securing and managing large research funding (PI on $50M+ grants) and mentoring early-stage founders through product and fundraising inflection points. His career bridges theoretical neuroscience, computer vision, and consumer-scale engineering—from Max Planck and Berkeley labs to high-growth startups acquired by Yahoo and SumUp. Based in San Francisco, he brings an uncommon mix of academic rigor, product intuition, and operator experience in regulated medical technology.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at University of HamburgBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of Regensburg
German
Github Skills (26)
pyflakes9
stylelint8
pycodestyle8
neuroscience8
python7
linter6
static-analysis6
axes6
monte-carlo5
machine-learning5
caffe5
static-code-analysis5
cosmology4
deep-learning4
gpu4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
koepsell/phase-coupling-estimation
Jun 2008 - Jan 2014
Contributions:45 commits in 5 years 8 months
emersys/machine-stack
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 2 days
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