FACULTY FELLOW
Kirk Kanzelberger, PhD
My name is Kirk Kanzelberger and I hold a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Fordham University, New York, 2011). My undergraduate degree is in Biology (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1984), and I also hold a master’s degree in Philosophical and Systematic Theology (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, 1994). Originally from Wisconsin, I had a somewhat itinerant childhood, living in various places in the US, and in Madrid during the waning years of the Franco regime.
I am married to an organometallic chemist that I met in Dabney Hovse at Caltech (literally, the girl next door). We have six children and (so far) two grandchildren.
When I graduated from Caltech, the Silicon Valley tech boom was in an accelerative phase. Software technology was a convenient way to support a family while pursuing graduate studies in spurts, beginning at the Caltech Seismological Lab, where I programmed geophysics simulations to run on innovative parallel hardware. One thing led to another, and to a career in the software industry. During the 2000’s, I was lead engineer for a successful software startup, Netrics Inc., which brought to market best-in-class scalable inexact matching and machine learning components (AI before it became ubiquitous). In 2010, Netrics was acquired by a Silicon Valley firm (TIBCO).
My philosophical interests lie in Peircean semiotics, moral psychology, and metaphysics. On the technology front, I am an advisor to a startup (Peircy, Inc.) on basic technology involving the application of Peirce’s logic of the sign.
You can view my LinkedIn profile here.
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