I’m the co-founder of Realmforge, a new kind of entertainment platform where stories respond to your actions, characters remember and evolve, and you’re the protagonist — not a spectator picking from a pre-written menu. YouTube turned every person with a camera into a potential media company. I believe the same transformation is coming for games and interactive entertainment.

Previously, I was a research scientist at Radical, working on real-time markerless 3D motion capture. I hold a Ph.D. in computer vision and machine learning from Lund University, advised by Professor Cristian Sminchisescu as part of the WASP program. During my Ph.D., I spent two years on the Perception team at Google Research in Zürich and published and reviewed for top-tier conferences including CVPR, NeurIPS, and AAAI.

I have a M.Sc. in computer science and engineering from Lund University, with a thesis on information extraction using natural language processing. In 2019 I reached the Google Hashcode finals, finishing 26th out of 6,000 teams. During my undergraduate studies I was awarded the Lund University Fund for Open Source Software Scholarship.

In my spare time I enjoy running, tinkering on all sorts of software projects, and traveling. I’ve been writing and playing narrative RPGs for over 20 years — so Realmforge might have been inevitable.

Erik