Robert G. Skoglund

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Education


KTH Royal Institute of Technology
MSc. Machine Learning

2023 August - present

Lund University
BSc. Mathematics

2019 August - 2022 September

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Exchange

2023 January - May

National University of Singapore
Exchange

2024 August - December

Work Experience


Tracab
Master's thesis

2025 Spring

  • Developing pose-guided image generation models generating images of football players, evaluating if synthetic imagery can improve player-tracking models. Delving into SOTA research such as Stable Diffusion and ControlNets, leveraging libraries such as HuggingFace Diffusers.
AI Sweden
AI for Impact

2024 Summer

  • Developing a RAG-based chatbot enabling efficient retrieval of trustworthy, socioeconomic using natural language. Built for the non-profit Reach For Change, funded by Google.org - Google's philanthropic arm.
  • Built/integrated backend infrastructure to React frontend, leveraging tools such as Docker, FastAPI, LangChain, AWS Lambda.
  • Versed myself in SOTA RAG designs, such as agentic RAG (LangGraph), GraphRAG, self-reflection, logical routing.
Axis Communications
R&D intern

2023 Summer

  • Researched/developed machine learning models for snow-detection to prevent view obstruction in surveillance cameras.
  • Building and evaluating various Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) models for synthetic data generation.
  • Extending binary snow classifier to multi-class classifier whilst reducing quantized model size by ~60% and increasing accuracy to >90% with hyperparameter tuning.
Lunicore
IT Consultant

2022 Fall

  • Supported clients with projects related to database migration, cost-analysis, database & bill management with Amazon Web Services.
Ericsson
R&D intern

2022 Summer

  • Developing UI features for analytical toolboxes and automating data flow of KPI analysis between new commits, mainly in Python.
  • Optimizing memory allocation of physical layer signals, parsed from log files, in virtual cellular hardware for simulations with C.

Societies


KTH AI Society
Tech Lead & AI Engineer

2024 October - present

  • Twiga - WhatsApp bot for Tanzanian teachers. Leveraging resources from Tanzanian Institute of Education (TIE) to provide pedagogical guidance to teachers.
  • Designing database infrastructure (PostgreSQL) and building ingestion pipeline for Twiga. Implementing vector database ingestion and conversational memory management. Sponsored by Meta & Neon.
  • Leading a team of 4 students, planning feature roll-out, and hosting workshops in tools such as HuggingFace, smolagents (agents library), and MCP.
Lund Formula Student
Driverless Developer

2021-2022

  • Developing software pipeline and simulations for autonomous go-kart like car for university-based Formula Student team.
  • Building multi-modal sensor system with INS, LiDAR and two-cameras to create real-time perception and path-planning pipeline.
LINC
Quantitative Research Analyst

2020-2021

  • Back-testing harmonic trading strategies in currency markets in collaboration with AI-driven hedgefund Valid Alpha.
  • Massive (>1 million data-points) data processing with Numpy/Pandas, data visualization with matplotlib/seaborn libraries, automating significance testing, technical analysis. Resulted in published paper.

Projects & Hackathons


AI Sweden x Google Impact Hack
Winner

2025 March

Modal Hackathon
Runner-Up

2025 March

Industry skills monitoring
Developer

2024 December

Nordea x AWS AI Hackathon
DorNea - real-time streamed financial chatbot. Honorary prize.

2024 May

SEB Tech-Talent of the Year Hackathon
Top-3 winner.

2024 Feb