Randal Koene
Founder & Chair Of Carboncopies Brain Research Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRandal Koene is a computational neuroscientist, engineer, and founder who has spent the last two decades translating neural theory into practical neurotech, from published spiking models of memory to building prototype neural prostheses. As Founder and Chair of the Carboncopies Brain Research Foundation he scaled a 2-person initiative into an 80+ researcher international nonprofit and forged a formal partnership with the Human Brain Project to accelerate virtual brain tissue and neuroprosthetic R&D. He combines hands-on C++17 and Python engineering with applied machine learning and image-processing work—authoring NETMORPH, high-throughput EM DNA-tag alignment code, and a long-term C++/Python planning and rescheduling tool on GitHub. Randal has repeatedly bridged academia, startups, and venture diligence—creating probabilistic VC decision models that informed successful investments and contributing technical leadership that added multi-million-dollar valuation in early-stage neurotech. He teaches complex data-science topics to neuroscientists and is notable for rapidly iterating computational models with in vivo experiments to drive device- and clinical-ready outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of AmsterdamMaster’s Degree Electrical Engineering (Information Theory AI), Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering (Information Theory AI) at Delft University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Neuroscience at McGill University
English, German, Dutch, FrenchGithub contributions (4)
randalkoene/formalizer
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:368 commits, 465 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
randalkoene/dil2al
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 commits in 1 month
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