Ariel Ekgren
Chief AI Officer & Co-founder at AI Sweden
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Ekgren is a Chief AI Officer and co-founder with 12 years of experience building scalable NLP and deep learning systems for the Nordics, currently leading AI strategy at Hybridity while advising AI Sweden. He has a strong research-to-product track record—designing LLMs for Swedish language needs, driving data readiness, and operationalizing ML from prototypes to production across RISE, FishBrain and startups. Trained as an engineering physicist, Ariel blends rigorous research in distributional semantics with hands-on engineering in analytics, ETL and computer vision. Known for high ownership and tackling hard problems, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with academic depth and a knack for translating linguistic research into practical AI products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Engineering Physics, Master of Science, Engineering Physics at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyGraphic Design och Communication 10 weeks, Graphic Design, Graphic Design och Communication 10 weeks, Graphic Design at Berghs School of Communication
English, Swedish
Github Skills (33)
transformers10
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
stylegan10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
openai-clip9
seq2seq9
language-model9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ekgren/simple-transformer
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:215 commits, 198 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
ekgren/swedish_nlp_datasets
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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