Nine years at the frontier.
Before the companies, there was the field work — talks, workshops and conferences from Berlin to the Syrian border, and the research that became RealAI and EarthScan.
DeepKapha is founded
An independent AI research lab, born the year the transformer was invented. Its first public act was code: the first viral TensorFlow implementation of Capsule Networks, online within days of the paper.
Berlin Bioinformatics Hackathon
A hands-on Capsule Networks workshop with researchers across Humboldt University, Charité and FU Berlin — deep learning taken straight to the people building it.
Open Source AI Leadership Summit
An invite-only keynote panel alongside leaders from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, LinkedIn, VMware and IBM on the future of open-source AI.
Think.it workshop, Tunisia
A hands-on deep-learning workshop with Think.it's engineers, plus a public event on AI in healthcare — deep warmth, and deep math questions.
Re:coded — near the Syrian border
Coding and AI workshops with Re:coded for conflict-affected learners — from Istanbul to ancient Edessa, teaching people as hungry to build the future as anyone.
Meetupai.com Hamburg — DeepRRP revealed
An invited talk, and the first public reveal of the DeepRRP (Deep Learning Remote Residency) Program for independent researchers.
DeepRRP — the remote residency opens
The Deep Learning Remote Residency Program: entrepreneurial Masters, PhD and Post-Doc researchers working from wherever they were, publishing open research and joining the solutions team that carried it into industry.
University of Texas, Dallas
DeepKapha's first-ever deep-learning workshop — a four-day intensive program at UT Dallas.
ICSE / SEC4COG, Sweden
Program-committee member and presenter at ICSE — a neuroscience-inspired paper, and a first meeting with NAVER Labs.
Finland Deep Learning Workshop
A two-day hands-on workshop spanning manufacturing, telecom, defence, health and government use of deep learning.
Hult Prize Foundation
Mentored 40+ student startups building for the year's energy theme — solar, wind, agriculture, water — toward improving ten million lives.
University of Copenhagen — Novo Nordisk Foundation Center
A philanthropy lecture at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, in the Mærsk Tower.
University lectures, Mumbai
Lectures at Thakur College of Engineering and at IIT Bombay, built on an 88-slide master deck.
The Toronto founding team
The lab establishes a Canadian base. Dr. Jie Mei — computational neuroscience, Charité Berlin — becomes a founding member and heads AI research; Dr. Tannistha Maiti — geophysics and seismology, University of Calgary and IIT Kharagpur — joins as founding board member and heads engineering. Two disciplines that would become two companies.
Startel partnership, the Netherlands
An AI-training partnership rooted in the founder's Groningen and Hanzehogeschool days — part of a teaching line that reached tens of thousands of learners.
Japan market entry
DeepKapha expands into Japan, with Takashi Nishida appointed Country Director.
Dynamic Linear Flow (DLF)
A flow-based generative model — state-of-the-art among flow models on ImageNet, converging 10× faster than Glow, with code released.
EarthAdaptNet
Deep domain adaptation for seismic facies — the research line that would become EarthScan.
VeerNet → EarthScan
The subsurface work leaves the lab and becomes EarthScan — an independent company reading the earth for the energy industry.
HOMINIS → RealAI
Project HOMINIS — Europe's first human-centered LLM, trained on the Leonardo supercomputer — anchors RealAI, the lab's second independent venture.
DeepKapha becomes DKAI Lab
Nine years of research, two independent companies, one continuing lab. First the research, then the companies.
