Mattias Rost
Associate Professor
Sweden
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Top SchoolMattias Rost is an Associate Professor and Head of Division in Interaction Design at the University of Gothenburg with 13 years of research and industry experience exploring how digital systems shape attention, creativity, and everyday life. Trained as a computer scientist (MSc, Chalmers) and HCI researcher (PhD, Stockholm), he bridges technical depth and human-centered design, investigating smartphone use and the promise of LLM-mediated computing. His career spans academia and industry—from postdoctoral work at the University of Glasgow and digital strategy work at Iteam to early hands-on coding in the demoscene, where he created award‑winning intros—showing a lifelong habit of learning through building. He combines experimental design, software craft, and critical reflection to rethink how AI and interfaces can become expressive, creative partners for non-expert users.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Chalmers tekniska högskolaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Man-Machine Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Man-Machine Interaction at Stockholm University
Github Skills (41)
usefetch10
react-suspense10
react-cache10
isomorphic10
mutation10
simpletest9
react-hooks9
http9
fetch9
rest-client9
contentful9
react9
graphql8
sdk7
tone-mapping5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rrostt/rrostt.github.io
Nov 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
rrostt/ml-experimenter-frontend
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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