Birger Moëll is a Senior Research Scientist and licensed clinical psychologist with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from KTH, combining a decade of experience building full-stack web systems and applied ML for healthcare. He works at the intersection of LLM training, multilingual foundation models, and responsible AI—contributing to major European efforts like OpenEuroLLM while teaching and supervising NLP research at Uppsala. A practical engineer as well as a researcher, he has shipped front-end and bot features for high-profile open-source projects such as LAION’s Open-Assistant and built scalable serverless APIs in production. His background in clinical psychology and hands-on experience creating internet-delivered CBT give him rare domain insight into clinically meaningful evaluation and real-world utility for medical AI. He co-founded startups and consults on AI-driven health platforms, valuing collaborative problem-solving that turns careful science into usable products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning for Speech and Language, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning for Speech and Language at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Master of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Master of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology at Stockholm University
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Birger primarily contributed to the project by developing the website frontend and implementing features within the bot. Their work involved setting up the initial website structure, designing the user interface with React, and incorporating a description of the Open Chat GPT project. They also added functionality to the bot using Python and the discord library by adding buttons and a review prompts feature, indicating backend and UI integration. The user's updates included fixing typos and implementing logging for debugging purposes.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 10 days
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Birger Moëll - Senior Research Scientist at Moëll et Al AB