Aarne Talman
Senior Manager, Software Development at AMD Silo AI
Finland
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Top SchoolAarne Talman is a seasoned AI/ML technology leader and researcher with two decades of experience across industry and academia, currently leading AI software teams optimizing LLM inference on AMD GPUs. He combines strategic leadership roles—from CTO of Nordcloud UK and Senior Manager at Accenture’s Centre for Advanced AI—to hands-on R&D work as Head of SiloGen and Lead AI Scientist at Silo AI. Aarne teaches Large Language Models and Generative AI at the University of Helsinki and holds a PhD in Language Technology, bringing deep expertise in computational linguistics to production-grade ML systems. He has founded a startup, led consultancy engagements across EMEA, and shepherded projects that bridge research, product and infrastructure. Known for pairing rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering, he focuses on squeezing performance from hardware for real-world LLM deployments. Based in Finland, he blends cross-disciplinary thinking from philosophy and formal grammar into practical AI solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Language Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Language Technology at University of HelsinkiMaster of Science Computational Linguistics and Formal Grammar, Master of Science Computational Linguistics and Formal Grammar at King's College LondonLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (36)
sentence-embeddings10
pytorch10
prosody10
corpus10
sequence-labeling10
machine-learning10
speech-synthesis10
natural-language-understanding10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
speech9
nlp9
huggingface8
datasets8
artificial-intelligence7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aarnetalman/blog
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 329 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
muvesio/muves.io
Nov 2021 - Jul 2025
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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