Summary
Antti Karlsson is a Principal Consultant and PhD in theoretical physics with nine years of experience applying statistical methods, NLP and deep learning to healthcare problems, including cancer detection in digital pathology and radiology. He has led analytics teams and built production-ready ML pipelines for patient and business data at healthcare providers and biobanks, and has strong expertise in PET/MR image reconstruction and medical physics. Antti combines old-school and modern NLP (ULMFiT, BERT) for information extraction from clinical text and has driven research collaborations to unlock unstructured EHR data. Known for a no-nonsense, analytical approach, he excels at distilling complex problems to their essence while keeping an eye on the big picture. An unusual but telling detail: outside of work he maintains the discipline to deadlift 400 pounds, reflecting his persistent, results-oriented mindset.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Docent, Medicine, Docent, Medicine at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Accepted with honors, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Accepted with honors at Turun yliopisto
Master of Science (MSc), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 5, Master of Science (MSc), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 5 at University of Waterloo
Finnish, English, Swedish, German