Malthe Have Musaeus

A little more personal.

I grew up moving between countries, started building software as a teenager, and still learn best by making something real.

This page is the less formal account: photographs, earlier projects, and the places that shaped how I work.

Five things about me

Malthe hiking in the Carpathian Mountains
01 / Carpathian MountainsI've lived in nine cities across six countries and three continents.

I was born in Denmark and have since lived in the UK, US, Germany, Australia, Spain, and Italy. I’m very lucky to have been raised in a family naturally curious about the world around us.

Malthe as a child at Waterford Elementary School in Florida
02 / Florida, 2008I learn by doing.

Growing up in different countries and adapting to new school systems made me curious early. Whether it is a programming language or a human language, I learn fastest by finding a real problem and immersing myself in it.

Portrait of Malthe in North Africa
03 / North AfricaI'm fascinated by the intricacies of modern AI systems.

I started by self-studying how to make AI models more useful for real-world tasks. That led to research published at COLING 2025, reviewing for ACL Rolling Review, and an equal fascination with the infrastructure behind the models.

Malthe visiting San Francisco
04 / San FranciscoI dream of creating a unicorn startup.

I sold my first piece of software to a real customer when I was fifteen and was over the moon. Today I’m deep into AI research and still want to use that knowledge to solve real problems.

Malthe standing beside a donkey in Fez, Morocco
05 / Fez, MoroccoI eat Sour Patch Kids for breakfast.

No, just kidding. I do not like sour candy and I do not eat breakfast. Instead, here is a picture of me with a Moroccan donkey in the awesome city of Fez.

Things I’ve built

01

Shipshark, co-founder

I co-founded Shipshark, a third-party logistics company shipping products across Denmark and the rest of Europe for e-commerce companies. I led the technical development of its shipping and logistics platform.

Shipshark office and warehouse
02

ACL Rolling Review, reviewer

I review papers for ACL Rolling Review and help authors improve their work. It has also made me much more attentive to how research claims are framed, supported, and communicated.

ACL Rolling Review mark
03

Musearch, customer-support search

I spent almost my entire second semester building an AI semantic search engine for LaserTryk.dk’s customer-support team (sorry, professors). Working with NLP before generative AI was cool got me hooked on practical AI.

Musearch semantic search interface
See the earlier project archive →

Places along the way

I’ve lived in nine cities across six countries and three continents. Moving around made adaptability feel ordinary and curiosity feel necessary.

  1. 01

    Researching while moving

    Europe and elsewhere

    I worked on my research interests with the team at Paper Instruments while moving between cities, mountains, and borrowed desks. It taught me how much good work depends on choosing the right problems, and how little it depends on having one permanent office.

    Malthe in the Carpathian Mountains
  2. 02

    Writing retreat

    Calafell, Catalonia

    I finished my courses ahead of time and went to Spain to write my bachelor’s thesis. I would walk down to the Mediterranean, order a café con leche, and write until it was time for siesta.

    The coast at Calafell, Catalonia
  3. 03

    University of New South Wales

    Sydney, Australia

    I studied at UNSW as an exchange student, choosing it partly for a postgraduate course in advanced machine learning that lined up directly with my research interests.

    Sydney, Australia
  4. 04

    IT University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    I completed a BSc in Data Science focused on programming, AI, and machine learning. The emphasis on group projects and hands-on work suited how I learn. My thesis became my COLING 2025 paper on structured knowledge distillation.

    IT University of Copenhagen
  5. 05

    Aarhus Business College

    Aarhus, Denmark

    I studied economics and mathematics. Alongside school, I kept building software and trying small businesses. That habit eventually pulled me toward research through engineering.

  6. 06

    Tutzing Gymnasium

    Tutzing, Germany

    My family and I lived in Germany while I attended tenth grade at a local school. I made friends, learned German, and became comfortable starting again in an unfamiliar place.

    Tutzing, Germany
  7. 07

    Blacksburg Middle School

    Blacksburg, Virginia

    Another new country, another new school system, and another lesson in learning quickly by taking part rather than watching from the outside.

    Blacksburg, Virginia
  8. 08

    Waterford Elementary School

    Orlando, Florida

    My first experience living and going to school abroad. I was six, so adaptation mostly meant learning English, making friends, and figuring things out as I went.

    Waterford Elementary School in Florida
  9. 09

    N. Kochs Skole

    Aarhus, Denmark

    The school I returned to between moves, and where most of the earliest experiments, websites, and ill-advised business ideas began.

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