Niels Justesen
Staff Researcher at modl.ai
Roskilde, Region Zealand, Denmark
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Top SchoolNiels Justesen is a Staff Researcher at modl.ai with 13 years of software and AI experience, specializing in designing human-like ML bots for FPS games and multi-modal LLM-based automated QA agents. He holds a PhD from the IT University of Copenhagen where his work combined deep learning, reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation to solve sparse-reward, long-horizon problems in complex strategy games. Niels has published 15+ papers in top venues (NeurIPS, GECCO, IEEE ToG) and holds two patents in AI and games, demonstrating a rare blend of rigorous research and product-focused invention. Before his PhD he built production-grade intelligent systems and web apps, giving him a strong engineering foundation as well as research depth. Based in Roskilde, he bridges academic innovation and applied game AI, often drawing on cross-disciplinary insights from robotics and game labs he visited during his doctoral studies.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Games Technology, Master's degree, Games Technology at IT University of CopenhagenDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at IT University of Copenagen
Danish, English, German
Github Skills (43)
unity3d10
ai-framework10
artificial-intelligence10
simulations10
machine-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
deep-learning10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
ml-agents10
serve10
intelligent10
imitation-learning9
starcraft9
gymnasium9
yeoman8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DKuan/ffai-a2c
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
A2C applied to Blood Bowl
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
appliedbowlblooda2c
njustesen/bot-bowl-submission
Jun 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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