Biography

Eric Malmi is a researcher at Lovable focusing on the post-training of large language models. He also holds a part-time position as an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University—where his teaching and research explore LLMs and their interdisciplinary applications—and is a faculty member at the ELLIS Institute Finland.

Previously, Eric worked at Google DeepMind, leading one of the Gemini post-training teams and co-leading the user signals vertical. Having joined Google in Zürich, Switzerland, he 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 church records and generating rap lyrics, to developing language models—both small and large.

Large language modelsPost-trainingComputational social scienceCreative AI

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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.