Career
Experience
26+ roles spanning AI research, clinical AI, public-sector advisory, engineering leadership, and academia, across Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Germany, Azerbaijan, and the US.
Machine Learning Engineer
Säkerhetspolisen (SÄPO)
Mar 2026 - Present · Solna, Sweden
Builds and operates AI applications that make machine learning and data science reliably usable across the agency. Works end-to-end across problem framing, data readiness, model training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management, with strong emphasis on reliability, traceability, and responsible AI in a security-critical setting. Contributes to shared data platform development, reproducible pipelines, automated testing, CI/CD alignment, monitoring, and production-grade LLM and multimodal model deployment. Operational details remain confidential.
Senior AI Engineer
WUF13 Azerbaijan (13th World Urban Forum)
Feb 2026 - Present · Baku, Azerbaijan
Builds applied AI and analytics capabilities supporting end-to-end delivery of the 13th World Urban Forum. Designs workflows consolidating registration, agenda, and operational telemetry into governed datasets. Develops forecasting and anomaly detection models to anticipate peak demand, allocate resources, and track service KPIs across venues and programme days. Emphasizes privacy-aware approaches and decision-ready narratives for senior leadership.
Senior AI Engineer
State Committee on Urban Planning & Architecture, Republic of Azerbaijan
Feb 2026 - Present · Baku, Azerbaijan
Develops and operationalizes data-driven methods for urban planning, zoning, architecture, and evidence-based public-sector decision-making. Builds geospatial data engineering pipelines integrating spatial layers, imagery, and administrative records into versioned, lineage-tracked datasets. Prototypes classification, prioritization, and change detection models with human-in-the-loop review workflows.
Data Science Specialist in Proteomics
Technical University of Denmark, Department of Bioengineering
Feb 2025 - Present · Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (Remote)
Designs, implements, and optimizes large-scale computational workflows for mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Leads development of five bioinformatics pipelines in Python and R processing over 10 TB of raw proteomic data annually, spanning peptide identification (MaxQuant), normalization, differential abundance analysis (limma, DEqMS), and functional enrichment (GO/KEGG). Optimization work reduced pipeline runtime by 30% while improving reproducibility across six SLURM HPC environments. Implemented Nextflow and nf-core standards. Developed an integrative ML framework for early-stage neurodegeneration biomarkers, improving AUC from 0.87 to 0.94 across validation cohorts exceeding 2,000 samples.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
Skolyn
Jan 2025 - Present · Baku Economic Zone, Azerbaijan
Leads end-to-end technology strategy and R&D for an explainable clinical AI platform designed to reduce diagnostic error in radiology and pathology. Architected the Skolyn AI Platform, integrating HL7/FHIR-based data pipelines, enterprise APIs, and distributed inference capable of analysing over 127 pathological indicators per scan in under 3 seconds. Oversaw a modular deep learning stack spanning X-ray, CT, and MRI with >95% diagnostic accuracy and visual interpretability. Leads ML engineers, backend developers, and clinical data scientists. Guides product design, model optimization, regulatory readiness, privacy-preserving training, and enterprise SaaS commercialization. Scaled infrastructure to support over 50,000 scans during pilot programmes and contributes to fundraising strategy.
Fänrik (Second Lieutenant), Swedish Air Force
Swedish Armed Forces
Jun 2022 - Present · Sweden
Serves as a commissioned officer in the Swedish Air Force reserve. Responsibilities include leadership, operational planning, and contributing to national defence readiness. Role maintains active engagement alongside civilian career.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Medical AI & Imaging
Uppsala University, Division of Visual Information and Interaction (Vi3)
Feb 2026 - Mar 2026 · Uppsala, Sweden
Led research at the intersection of medical imaging, computer vision, and explainable AI with a neuroradiology focus. Designed end-to-end imaging pipelines, preprocessing, normalization, segmentation, radiomics, reducing manual annotation effort by 25-30%. Combined 3D CNNs and transformer architectures with interpretability methods to exceed 95% AUC on neurodegenerative disease classification. Led multi-institutional benchmark studies across Swedish hospitals and mentored PhD candidates.
Peer Reviewer
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
Feb 2026 - Mar 2026 · Remote
Provides structured peer review at the intersection of AI, biomedical informatics, and clinical relevance. Evaluates submissions on novelty, methodological rigor, reproducibility, and biomedical impact.
Trusted Tester, Hackathons Early Access Programme
Kaggle
Feb 2026 - Mar 2026 · Remote
Validates emerging hackathon formats, evaluation tooling, scoring integrity, developer experience, safety considerations, and benchmark quality under programme confidentiality terms.
AI & Military Language Models Advisor
Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces)
Nov 2025 - Jan 2026 · Berlin, Germany (Remote)
Advised on the strategic development and implementation of AI-supported language processing systems aligned with military requirements, information security standards, and responsible deployment principles. Engagement details remain at a high level of confidentiality.
Bioinformatician, Clinical Genomics
Linköping University
Oct 2025 - Jan 2026 · Linköping, Sweden
Maintained and expanded over five Nextflow/nf-core pipelines on SLURM-managed HPC infrastructure, processing over 2 TB of genomic data per week and supporting hundreds of clinical samples annually. Worked across WGS/WES workflows and multi-omics integration, improving runtime and computational cost efficiency while maintaining clinical compliance standards.
Trusted Tester, Benchmarks Early Access Programme
Kaggle
Oct 2025 - Jan 2026 · Remote
Validated benchmark tooling for modern AI systems, focusing on task specification, execution harnesses, reporting quality, reproducibility, failure modes, and developer experience under early access conditions.
Seconded National Expert, Policy Analysis (Research Programme Expert)
European Research Council (ERC)
Aug 2025 - Sep 2025 · Brussels, Belgium
Supported evidence-based policy development, analytics, and strategic evaluation of research funding programmes under Horizon Europe. Worked with project, publication, collaboration, and innovation indicators to produce actionable policy insights for ERC programme management.
Adjunct Instructor
Linköping University
Feb 2025 - Jul 2025 · Linköping, Sweden
Delivered lectures and practical labs across applied statistics, regression, multivariate methods, programming, and data analysis. Designed Jupyter notebook assignments and supervised student projects in genomics, imaging, and multi-omics. Received strong teaching evaluations; contributed to curriculum innovation in data science pedagogy.
Research Scientist, Generative AI Evaluations (Health AI)
Google Health AI
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 · Mountain View, CA
Led research on generative and evaluative modeling frameworks for clinical reasoning, multimodal health AI, and safety-focused evaluation pipelines. Designed a clinician-in-the-loop evaluation protocol involving over 50 clinicians and more than 1 million simulated patient interactions. Developed a unified evaluation taxonomy for generative clinical models and contributed to explainability frameworks for clinical LLM systems.
Technical Program Manager II, Software Engineering
Google Health
Aug 2024 - Oct 2024 · Mountain View, CA
Oversaw development and deployment of software systems powering clinical data infrastructure and federated AI research. Coordinated engineers, researchers, and data scientists across teams; improved delivery timelines and cross-functional execution. Contributed to rollout of privacy-preserving distributed ML platform and maintained technical reporting to senior stakeholders.
Senior Research Scientist
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024 · Helsinki, Finland
Led healthcare AI research teams and strategic research initiatives. Directed work in multi-omics clinical intelligence, graph neural networks, explainable AI, and translational research collaboration. Drove publication strategy and secured research funding.
Machine Learning Engineer
Säkerhetspolisen (SÄPO)
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024 · Solna, Sweden
Contributed to moving ML systems from experimentation to dependable internal deployment in a security-critical environment. Focused on robust reproducible workflows, evaluation practices, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, and long-term maintainability. Operational details remain confidential.
Associate Research Scientist
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
May 2024 - Jun 2024 · Helsinki, Finland
Led projects in federated learning, explainable AI, and clinical imaging translation. Managed research collaboration, built adaptive federated ensemble architectures, ran human-AI radiology studies, and contributed to research grant applications.
Junior Research Scientist
Linköping University
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024 · Linköping, Sweden
Contributed to early-stage biomedical AI research through literature synthesis, data curation, exploratory analysis, reproducible workflow development, and technical reporting.
Research Scientist
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023 · Helsinki, Finland
Worked on human-AI collaboration, federated learning, trustworthy reinforcement learning, medical imaging, and clinical decision support. Developed reinforcement learning approaches alongside privacy-preserving training methods and contributed to peer-reviewed publications.
Junior Research Scientist
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022 · Helsinki, Finland
Contributed to early-stage research in explainable AI, statistical modeling, medical imaging, and biomedical data science. Worked with CNNs, SHAP, LIME, model calibration, and multi-omics preprocessing pipelines.
Assistant, Politico-Military Dimension
Permanent Mission of Finland to the OSCE
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022 · Vienna, Austria (Remote)
Supported work related to arms control, conflict prevention, and politico-military confidence-building measures. Tracked OSCE proceedings, summarised discussions, and contributed to mission documentation.
Assistant, Sustainable Development & Human Rights
Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, New York
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021 · New York, USA (Remote)
Supported policy and documentation work related to the 2030 Agenda, SDG implementation, and human rights processes at the UN.
Assistant, European Union Military Committee (EUMC)
Permanent Representation of Finland to the EU
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021 · Brussels, Belgium (Remote)
Supported Finnish delegation work related to EU military policy, defence cooperation, and documentation within the Common Security and Defence Policy framework.
Secretary Trainee
Parliament of Finland
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 · Helsinki, Finland
Supported parliamentary committee secretariat functions, documentation, correspondence, and administrative workflows in a formal legislative environment.