CURRICULUM VITAE // JUNE 2026

Max Rehman Linder

AI Researcher & Applied Mathematician

Experience

Jan 2025 — present

Ericsson Stockholm

AI Researcher Sep 2025 — present

Building dataset-creation and training pipelines for a proprietary large language model, from continued pre-training through reinforcement learning.

Thesis Worker, System Comprehension Lab Jan — Sep 2025

Master’s thesis on vocabulary expansion of LLMs; developed a method and pipeline for KL-based self-distillation.

Apr — Aug 2024

Publicis Re:Sources Paris

AI / ML Intern

Developed preprocessing methods and a training pipeline for precise placement of objects in images generated by latent diffusion models. Project note.

Jun — Aug 2022

Candela Technology Stockholm

Summer Intern

May 2021 — Dec 2022

Swedbank Stockholm

Client Advisor

Aug 2020 — Apr 2021

Lidingö Jolleseglare Stockholm

Catamaran Coach

Aug 2019 — Jun 2020

Swedish Armed Forces K3 Hussar Regiment

Reconnaissance & Infiltration Specialist

Summers 2016 — 2020

KSSS — Royal Swedish Yacht Club

Sailing Instructor, responsible for the competitive racing group.

Education

Aug 2020 — Jan 2026

KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm

Degree Programme in Engineering Physics, MSc in Applied Mathematics for Data Science.

Sep 2023 — Aug 2024

École Polytechnique (l’X) Palaiseau

Third year of Cycle Ingénieur, track in Applied Mathematics.

Aug 2016 — Jun 2019

Kungsholmens Gymnasium Stockholm

Natural Sciences Program; participated in the Young Entrepreneurship Program.

Publications, features & awards

2026

Tokenmaxxing!

Featured in The New York Times on maximising the use of AI. Read article.

2025

Vocabulary Expansion of LLMs via KL-Based Self-Distillation

Ericsson / KTH master’s thesis. Read on arXiv.

2025

Founders House Fintech + AI Hackathon

Winner, “Most Likely to Become a Unicorn.” Sponsored by OpenAI, EQT, and Stripe. Event note.

2023

Marseilléstiftelsens Stipend

Awarded by Tessinsällskapet.

2020

Swedish Championship Silver

F18 catamaran class sailboat.

Skills

Languages

Swedish (native), English (fluent), French (fluent).

Infrastructure & ML

Azure, AWS, Slurm, FSDP / DeepSpeed, vLLM, DVC, Docker, PyTorch, JAX, and TensorFlow.