Eric Malmi
Staff Research Scientist at Aalto University
Finland
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Top SchoolEric Malmi is a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production ML systems. He leads post-training work on Gemini focused on user signals, distillation, and planning & reasoning, bringing research ideas into large-scale product contexts. His background spans doctoral research in computational science to senior engineering roles at Google in Zurich and Helsinki, reflecting deep expertise in LLMs, model compression, and applied ML. Eric combines hands-on system building with teaching and publishing, mentoring the next generation of researchers while shipping cutting-edge model improvements. Based in Finland, he often operates at the intersection of theory and practice, turning nuanced research questions into deployable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
D.Sc. (Tech.) Computer Science, D.Sc. (Tech.) Computer Science at Aalto UniversityM.Sc. (Tech.) Computational Science, M.Sc. (Tech.) Computational Science at Aalto University, School of SciencePäivölä
Github Skills (22)
named-entity-recognition9
machine-translation9
natural-language-processing9
error-correction8
machine-learning8
finnish7
speech7
huggingface6
datasets6
nlp5
computer-vision5
pytorch5
artificial-intelligence4
deep-learning4
tensorflow4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ekQ/historical_name_normalizer
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year
google-research-datasets/discofuse
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
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