Pascal Wieler
Co-Founder at Basepilot (YC W24)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPascal Wieler is a founder and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience building robotics, vision, and AI-driven products, now co-founding Basepilot (YC W24) to create the first agentic AI workforce for insurance claims. He blends deep academic training (MSc in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon and CS/Entrepreneurship from KIT) with hands-on startup execution, previously launching a robot delivery company and several early-stage ventures. His technical roots span computer vision, graph neural networks, RL, and production ML—work that includes research at CMU and internships applying SLAM, GANs, and real-time perception for automotive partners like Daimler. Based in San Francisco, he pairs research-grade expertise with product instinct to turn advanced models into operational efficiency gains (10x claims teams at Basepilot). A not-obvious thread: he repeatedly bridges academic projects and commercial pilots, taking prototypes from Gazebo/SUMO/ROS simulations to funded accelerators and YC-backed deployment.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science & Entrepreneurship, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science & Entrepreneurship at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Master of Science (M.Sc.) Machine Learning, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science (Intelligent Systems), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) at Instituto Superior TécnicoY Combinator
German, English, Spanish, French, PortugueseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pwieler/DeepQA
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
MenToSaR/CASE-Tool
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:13 pushes in 2 months
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