Eric Malmi.
Researcher at Lovable
Adjunct Professor at Aalto University
Biography
Eric Malmi is a researcher at Lovable, where he works on post-training of large language models. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University and a faculty member at ELLIS Institute Finland where he teaches and conducts research on LLMs and their interdisciplinary applications.
Previously, Eric worked at Google DeepMind where he led one of the Gemini post-training teams and was the co-lead of the user signals vertical. He started at Google in Zürich, Switzerland and later became the first Google DeepMind employee based in Finland.
Eric received his PhD from Aalto University in 2018. His research has taken him from linking historical records, to analyzing and generating rap lyrics, to developing language models—both small and large.
Research interests
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Aalto University's AI podcast "And humanity created intelligence". is hosted by Eric Malmi and Arno Solin. The show sits down with Finnish and Finland-adjacent pioneers of artificial intelligence and explores their personal journeys into the field, the core principles behind how modern AI models work, and firsthand insights from the researchers building them.