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Hi, I'm Malthe 😃

I'm driven by the challenge of applying AI to real-world projects 👨‍💻

In my free time I enjoy running 🏃, playing the bass-guitar 🎸 and swimming 🏊

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I've lived in 9 cities across 6 countries and 3 continents (still counting!) 🌍
I learn by doing ✨
I'm passionate about the intricacies of modern AI systems! 🤖 🧮
I dream of creating a unicorn startup 🦄
I eat sour patch kids for breakfast 🍬

I've lived in 9 cities across 6 countries and 3 continents (still counting!) 🌍 

Picture: Hiking in the Carpathian Mountains  

I am very lucky to have been raised in a family naturally curious about the world around us. I was born in Denmark 🇩🇰 and have since lived in 🇬🇧 , 🇺🇸 , 🇩🇪 , 🇦🇺 , 🇪🇸 & 🇮🇹 ! 

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Research & publications

Screenshot of the DiligenceBench research release
Research releaseJuly 2026

DiligenceBench: An Equity-Research Agent Evaluation

Malthe Have Musaeus, Faisal Sayed, Mersad Abbasi, Daanish Khazi & Karina Nguyen

Paper Instruments × Thoughtful Lab

A benchmark for evaluating agents on long-form equity research. It tests whether agents can find the right filings, calculate from evidence, and make risk-aware judgments across 150 tasks and ten sectors.

Screenshot of the Kos-1 Experimental research release
Research releaseMay 2026

Kos-1 Experimental: Env-Free RL on a 1T Parameter Agentic Prior

Qi Fang, Daanish Khazi, Gavin Bains, Joey Besgen, Malthe Have Musaeus & Rohit Rastogi

First page of the ISKD paper
Peer-reviewed paper2025

Iterative Structured Knowledge Distillation: Optimizing Language Models Through Layer-by-Layer Distillation

Malthe Have Musaeus & Rob van der Goot

Other Projects

Download my CV to read more about my projects and experience, or view my archived projects.

Shipshark, co-founder

I am a co-founder of Shipshark, a third party logistics company specializing in shipping products across Denmark, and the rest of Europe for e-commerce companies. I lead the technical development of our shipping and logistics platform.

  • Full Stack Development
  • AI Workflow Automation
  • Shipping
Project I worked on

ACL Rolling Review (ARR) - Reviewer

I am a reviewer for the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) conference. I review papers for the conference and help the authors improve their work.

  • AI
  • NLP
  • Reviewing
Project I worked on

"Musearch" - Customer support search engine

I spent almost my entire second semester (sorry Professors!) building an AI semantic search engine for LaserTryk.dk's customer support team - the biggest printing company in Scandinavia. Using NLP techniques before generative AI was cool, this project got me hooked on the practical applications of AI.

  • NLP
  • Deep Learning
  • Fine Tuning
  • Word Embeddings
Project I worked on

KPMG Responsible AI hackathon winner

During university I participated in and won a hackathon hosted by KPMG. The task was to develop an AI solution, that would help the Kenyan startup, Tiny Totos, better facilitate communication with their customers.

  • Huggingface
  • AI
  • NLP
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TailwindCSS
Project I worked on

My skills

Tech and programming languages

Human languages

My life

(Un)digitally nomadding

World 🌐 

Or rather, very digitally nomadding! I work on my research interests, along with the awesome team at Paper Instruments. 

(Un)digitally nomadding
June 2024 - Present

Writing retreat

Calafell, Catalonia, Spain 🇪🇸 

I had completed courses ahead of time and decided to go on a writing retreat in Spain where I worked on my bachelor's thesis. Loved every bit of life, the food, the people, the weather, the culture, and the work. I would wake up, walk down to the Mediterranean Sea, order a "Café con leche" and start writing until it was time for siesta 😴 

Writing retreat
January 2024 - June 2024

University of New South Wales - Exchange Student

Sydney, NSW, Australia 🇦🇺 

Studied at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). At the time of my visit, UNSW was ranked as the worlds 19th-best university by the QS World University Rankings. I chose to study at UNSW to partake in the postgraduate course "Advanced Machine Learning" which directly aligns with my research interests. 

University of New South Wales - Exchange Student
September 2023 - December 2023

IT University of Copenhagen, Bachelor of Science in Data Science

Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰 

Completed Bachelor's degree in Data Science at IT University of Copenhagen. The program focused on computer programming, artificial intelligence, and machine learning aligning with my academic interests and passions. The curriculum emphasized group projects and hands-on learning. My thesis, supervised by Professor Rob van der Goot, was about optimizing transformer based neural networks by combining concepts from distillation and pruning. Specifically I replaced large transformer blocks with smaller counterparts for computational efficiency. 

IT University of Copenhagen, Bachelor of Science in Data Science
August 2021 - June 2024

Aarhus Business College, HHX

Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 

My line of study was economics and mathematics and my final grade average was 11.6 on the Danish 12-point grading scale (4.0 GPA.) 

2018 - 2021

Tutzing Gymnasium

Tutzing, Germany 🇩🇪 

My family and I lived in Germany while I was attending 10th grade in a German high school. During the stay, I made local friends and learned German.  This was the third time I went to a foreign school, as I have previously lived in the United States as well. 

Tutzing Gymnasium
2018 - 2018

Blacksburg Middle School

Blacksburg, Virginia, USA 🇺🇸 

Middle school. 

Blacksburg Middle School
2015 - 2016

Waterford Elementary School

Orlando, Florida, USA 🇺🇸 

Elementary school. 

Waterford Elementary School
2008 - 2009

N. Kochs Skole

Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 

Elementary and middle school. 

2007 - 2017

Contact me

Contact me directly at malthe(at)musaeus(dot)dk or through this form