Charles Fisher
Co-Founder at EPIC Ventures
Chelsea, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Fisher is a founder and machine learning scientist who blends theoretical physics and AI to build products that remove trial-and-error from complex domains like medicine and education. With a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard and nine years of industry experience, he founded Unlearn.AI to accelerate clinical trials using generative models and now leads multiple ventures including Collaborative Computing and NOY Fitness. His background spans hands-on ML engineering at Leap Motion and Pfizer, plus academic contributions to microbiome modeling and feature selection in big data. Charles has published scholarly work and authored The Relentless Startup, signaling a rare combination of deep theory, practical product-building, and entrepreneurial storytelling. Based in Chelsea, Michigan, he frequently bridges academic rigor and startup velocity to ship impactful, regulation-aware AI for life sciences. An underappreciated thread through his career is a consistent emphasis on interpretable models that translate physics-inspired insights into deployable ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Biophysics, B.S. Biophysics at University of MichiganPh.D. Biophysics, Ph.D. Biophysics at Harvard University
Github Skills (14)
generative-model10
machine-learning10
unsupervised-learning10
rbm10
python9
genomics9
rna-seq9
pytorch9
bioinformatics8
apple-silicon7
jupyter-notebook6
monte-carlo6
python-codes5
statistical-physics4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drckf/paysage
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
Unsupervised learning and generative models in python/pytorch.
Contributions:1 release, 614 commits, 111 PRs in 1 year 6 months
generative-modelpythonpytorchunsupervised-learningboltzmann-machines
unlearnai/genemunge
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Tools for munging genomic data
Contributions:174 commits, 11 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
genomicsbioinformaticsmungingrna-seqgenomic
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