Aarne Talman

Aarne TalmanAI Engineering Leader

Leading AI teams that deliver measurable performance gains. From LLM inference and training optimization to production ML systems.

PhD
Language Technology
20+
Years in Tech

Bridging research and production at the forefront of AI

I lead AI software teams improving workload performance on AMD GPUs with a focus on LLM inference and training. With a PhD in Language Technology and 20 years of experience at companies like Silo AI, Nordcloud, Nokia, Gartner, and Accenture, I bring deep technical expertise and strategic vision to every challenge.

Senior Manager, AI Software
AMD

Leading teams improving LLM inference performance on AMD Instinct GPUs.

Visiting Scholar & University Instructor
University of Helsinki

Teaching Large Language Models and Generative AI for NLP to graduate students.

Senior Manager & EMEA ML Lead
Accenture – Centre for Advanced AI

AI and machine learning consulting with a focus on generative AI and LLMs for enterprise clients.

Head of R&D, SiloGen
Silo AI (acquired by AMD)

Led R&D for SiloGen, building custom LLM solutions and multilingual language models.

CTO, UK
Nordcloud (acquired by IBM)

Drove technology strategy and engineering for cloud-native solutions across the UK market.

Associate Director
Gartner

Technology research and advisory for enterprise IT leaders on emerging technologies.

Product Manager, Search
Nokia

Led product development for enterprise search and discovery experiences.

AMD ROCm Blogs, 2025
J Hartikainen, A Talman, R Karhila, T Virolainen, et al.
Sentence embeddings in NLI with iterative refinement encoders
Natural Language Engineering, 2019
A Talman, A Yli-Jyrä, J Tiedemann
Testing the generalization power of neural network models across NLI benchmarks
ACL Workshop BlackboxNLP, 2019
A Talman, S Chatzikyriakidis
Predicting prosodic prominence from text with pre-trained contextualized word representations
Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2019
A Talman, A Suni, H Celikkanat, S Kakouros, J Tiedemann, M Vainio
Poro 34B and the blessing of multilinguality
Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025
R Luukkonen, J Burdge, E Zosa, A Talman, et al.
Uncertainty-Aware Natural Language Inference with Stochastic Weight Averaging
Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2023
A Talman, H Celikkanat, S Virpioja, M Heinonen, J Tiedemann
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PhD, Language Technology
University of Helsinki
MSc, Computational Linguistics
King's College London
BSc, Philosophy & Logic
London School of Economics

Let's connect

Available for speaking engagements on AI engineering, LLM inference and training, and production ML.
Happy to connect with teams exploring high-performance AI on AMD GPUs.