Kai Dierkes
Head Of R&D at Pupil Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKai Dierkes is Head of R&D at Pupil Labs with nine years of industry experience bridging machine learning, computer vision and eye tracking research and product delivery. With a PhD in theoretical biophysics and a master’s in mathematics, he brings a rare combination of quantitative rigor and hands-on engineering to lead cross-disciplinary teams solving challenging perceptual and tracking problems. He has progressed from R&D engineer to team lead and now heads research programs that translate academic methods into robust mobile eye-tracking solutions. Comfortable coaching researchers and delivering workshops for academic audiences, he excels at turning complex scientific questions into practical, production-ready technology. Based in Berlin, he’s equally at home iterating model architectures or shaping long-term technical strategy across hardware and software stacks.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Mathematics at Freie Universität BerlinPhD, Theoretical biophyics, PhD, Theoretical biophyics at Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex SystemsHigh School, High School at Helmholtz Gymnasium Essen
English, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
eye-tracking10
open-source8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
pupil-labs/pupil
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Open source eye tracking
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 1 month
eye-trackingpupil
pupil-labs/pupil-docs
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Documentation for Pupil - open source eye tracking
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
eye-tracking
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