Simon Holk
Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of Tokyo
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolSimon Holk is a postdoctoral researcher and former software engineer whose work sits at the intersection of reinforcement learning from human feedback and foundational models applied to robotics. With a PhD from KTH and visiting research at The University of Tokyo, he has published at ICRA, IROS and HRI while combining deep learning research with practical robotics deployments. Prior to academia he built production-grade data pipelines and scalable backend services at Klarna, touching databases, streaming, APIs and ML model serving in AWS. He follows modern engineering practices like TDD, CI/CD and pair programming, bringing an operational mindset to research code. Comfortable moving between experimental models and production constraints, he looks for challenges that accelerate both technical growth and real-world impact. Based in Stockholm, he uniquely blends hands-on backend experience with cutting-edge RLHF research on LLMs for embodied systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityExchange studies, Exchange studies at Keio University
Swedish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
robotics3
ros3
cpp1
infrastructure1
modeling1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
holken/VRshop
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:32 commits in 2 months
holken/FullstackPractice
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Just a repo to practice what I learn
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
python
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