Heri Ramampiaro

Dr. Ramampiaro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, NTNU. He is head of  the Data and Artificial Intelligence (DART) group, Deputy Head of Department,  NTNUs Scientific Coordiantor of the Telenor–NTNU AI-Lab and coordinator for IE Faculty’s Strategic Research Area on Big Bata. Ramampiaro is member of the management committee for the European Network on Integrating Vision and Language  and substitute member of the management committee for the Semantic keyword-based search on structured data sources EU COST actions. Ramampiaro's main research interests include information retrieval, information extraction, data/text mining and recommender systems. 

Teaching

I am teaching/lecturing in the following courses:

• TDT4117 Information Retrieval
• IT8802 Advanced Information Retrieval (Doctoral course)
• TDT4305 Big Data Architecture
• IT3902 - Informatics Postgraduate Thesis: Data and Information Management

In addition to these, I have previously been involved in a wide range of topics, including Digital Library and Computer Science (introductory course).

Research Projects

I have been involved in a number of projects during recent years, including:

• MUSED - Strategic Research Project (2016-2019)
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Funding 1 PhD and 1 Postdoc fellowship (approx. 1M USD)
• Big Data - Faculty Strategic Researh Area (2013-present)
  Role: Project Coordinator/Leader.
  Funding 2 PhD and 1 Postdoc fellowships (approx. 1M USD).
• "CAIM - Context-Aware Image Management" (2009-2013)
  Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
  Funded by the research council of Norway (the VERDIKT programe) - Approx. 1.5M USD

In addition I am participating in the following projects:

• Apache AsterixDB - Funded by NSF, currently an Apache project..
• ICT COST Action IC1307 - The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net)
• ICT COST Action IC1302 - Semantic keyword-based search on structured data sources (KEYSTONE)

Research Supervision

PhD Students

I have been / am main supervisor for the following PhD students:

• Massimiliano Ruocco (Main supervisor, graduated in 2014). 
  Current position: Research Scientist at Telenor and Adjunct Associate Professor at NTNU
• Tarik Salem  (expected graduation in 2018)
• Shweta Tiwari (expected graduation in 2019)

In addition, I have been / am co-supervisor for the following PhD students:

• Eliezer de Souza da Silva (expected graduation in 2019)
• Audun Vennesland (expected graduation in 2018)
• Jan Rybak (expected graduation in 2017)
• Naimdjon Takhirov (graduated in 2013)
• Nattiya Kanhabua (graduated in 2012)

Visting Scholars/PhD Students

• Huamin Ren (Sept. 2011 - July 2012): One-year visting PhD Student from the Chinese Academy of Science, China.
• George Ruß (Aug. 2010 - Oct. 2010): Visiting PhD student from the Computational Intelligence Research Group, University of Magdeburg, Germany.

Postdoctoral fellows

• 2012 - 2013: Dr. Chongsheng Zhang. ERCIM Postdoctoral fellow. Duration: 12 months.
• 2012 - 2013: Dr. George Almpanidis. ERCIM Postdoctoral fellow. Duration: 12 months.
• 2007: Dr. Damien Avoce. ERCIM Postdoctoral fellow. Duration: 9 months.