Kerstin Bach

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

kerstin.bach@ntnu.no +47 73597410 +47 93032400

IT-bygget, 312, Gløshaugen

Kerstin is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science. Her core competence field is Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. She is currently deputy head of the Data and Artificial Intelligence group and associated with the Norwegian Open AI Lab.

Kerstin was awarded her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Her main research interest are data-driven decision support systems as well as knowledge-intensive Case-Based Reasoning. She is the chair of the German Society for Computer Science's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management and a board member of the Norwegian AI society.

Research Interest:

The main focus of her work are methods for applied artificial intelligence. While the application domains differ, we are investigating how to make knowledge and experience available through intelligent systems. Moreover, how to build systems that support complex, knowledge-intesive decisions using heterogenous data sources. Currently, among other research activities, she is the project manager of the selfBACK EU project that develops an e-Health application for low back pain patients.

She enjoys discussing AI methodologies and applications with fellow researchers, but more importantly teaching it to students and bringing it into multidisciplinary projects and thereby shaping the new digital world.

In particular we are applying methods from the following research fields:

Subsymbolic AI
Case-Based Reasoning
Information Extraction and Knowledge Engineering

Research Group: Data and Artificial Intelligence

Projects:

AI4EU - An AI-on-demand platform for Europe (partner, H2020, 2019 – 2021)
selfBACK - A decision support system for self-management of low back pain (project manager, H2020, 2016-2020)
Back-UP - Personalised Prognostic Models to Improve Well-being and Return to Work After Neck and Low Back Pain (task leader, H2020, 2018 – 2020)

Scientific, academic and artistic work

Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database

2020

Bach, Kerstin; Akselsen, Sigmund; Veiga, Tiago Santos; Kalamaras, Ilias. (2020) On the Use of Air Quality Microsensors for Supporting Decision Makers. IoT '20 Companion: 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things Companion.
Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Bach, Kerstin; Meidell, Espen; Måløy, Håkon; Sjøblom, Edvard Schreiner. (2020) FishNet: A Unified Embedding for Salmon Recognition. 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 29 August–8 September 2020, Santiago de Compostela, Spain – Including 10th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Artificial Intelligence (PAIS 2020).
Murad, Abdulmajid; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Bach, Kerstin; Taylor, Gavin. (2020) Information-Driven Adaptive Sensing Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning. IoT '20: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things.
Nordstoga, Anne Lovise; Bach, Kerstin; Sani, Sadiq; Wiratunga, Nirmalie; Mork, Paul Jarle; Villumsen, Morten; Cooper, Kay. (2020) Usability and Acceptability of an App (SELFBACK) to Support Self-Management of Low Back Pain: Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. vol. 7 (2).
Sandal, Louise Fleng; Øverås, Cecilie K.; Nordstoga, Anne Lovise; Wood, Karen; Bach, Kerstin; Hartvigsen, Jan; Søgaard, Karen; Mork, Paul Jarle. (2020) A digital decision support system (selfBACK) for improved self-management of low back pain: a pilot study with 6-week follow-up. BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies. vol. 6 (72).
Verma, Deepika; Mork, Paul Jarle; Bach, Kerstin. (2020) Clustering of Physical Behaviour Profiles using Knowledge-intensive Similarity Measures. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - (Volume 2).
Vonstad, Elise Klæbo; Su, Xiaomeng; Vereijken, Beatrix; Bach, Kerstin; Nilsen, Jan Harald. (2020) Comparison of a Deep Learning-Based Pose Estimation System to Marker-Based and Kinect Systems in Exergaming for Balance Training. Sensors. vol. 20 (23).

2019

Bach, Kerstin; Marling, Cindy. (2019) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. Springer. 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-29248-5. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11680).
Bach, Kerstin; Ruocco, Massimiliano. (2019) Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Porc. of Third Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2019. Springer. 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-35663-7. Communications in Computer and Information Science (1056).
Jaiswal, Amar Deep; Bach, Kerstin. (2019) A Data-Driven Approach for Determining Weights in Global Similarity Functions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 11680.
Jaiswal, Amar Deep; Bach, Kerstin; Meisingset, Ingebrigt; Vasseljen, Ottar. (2019) Case Representation and Similarity Modeling for Non-Specific Musculoskeletal Disorders - A Case-Based Reasoning Approach. AAAI Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-57735-805-3.
Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Aamodt, Agnar; Langseth, Helge; Bach, Kerstin. (2019) Learning similarity measures from data. Progress in Artificial Intelligence.
Murad, Abdulmajid Abdullah Yahya; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Bach, Kerstin; Taylor, Gavin. (2019) Autonomous Management of Energy-Harvesting IoT Nodes Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. 2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO).
Sandal, Louise Fleng; Stochkendahl, Mette J; Svendsen, Malene Jagd; Wood, Karen; Øverås, Cecilie Krage; Nordstoga, Anne Lovise; Villumsen, Morten; Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard; Nicholl, Barbara I; Cooper, Kay; Kjaer, Per; Mair, Frances; Sjøgaard, Gisela; Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund; Hartvigsen, Jan; Bach, Kerstin; Mork, Paul Jarle; Søgaard, Karen. (2019) An App-Delivered Self-Management Program for People With Low Back Pain: Protocol for the selfBACK Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. vol. 8 (12).
Verma, Deepika; Bach, Kerstin; Mork, Paul Jarle. (2019) Similarity measure development for case-based reasoning-a data-driven approach. Communications in Computer and Information Science. vol. 1056 CCIS.

2018

Aha, David; Bach, Kerstin; Gundersen, Odd Erik; Lieber, Jean. (2018) The 25th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. The AI Magazine. vol. 39 (2).
Bach, Kerstin. (2018) From data to context-aware decision making: Challenges and opportunities. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 2166.
Bach, Kerstin. (2018) Knowledge Engineering for Distributed Case-Based Reasoning Systems. Synergies Between Knowledge and Software Engineering.
Bach, Kerstin; Bunescu, Razvan; Farri, Oladimeji; Guo, Aili; Hasan, Sadid; Ibrahim, Zina M.; Marling, Cindy; Rubin, Jonathan; Wu, Honghan. (2018) The 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data. IJCAI-ECAI 2018 ; Stockholm. 2018-07-13 - 2018-07-13.
Bach, Kerstin; Marling, Cindy; Mork, Paul Jarle; Aamodt, Agnar; Mair, Frances; Nicholl, Barbara I. (2018) Design of a clinician dashboard to facilitate co-decision making in the management of non-specific low back pain. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.
Engin, Harun Kursat; Nadim, Farrokh; Carotenuto, Pasquale; Bach, Kerstin. (2018) Estimation of Pile Capacities Using Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) Method. 4th International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics ; Assisi. 2018-05-02 - 2018-05-04.
Mork, Paul Jarle; Bach, Kerstin. (2018) A Decision Support System to Enhance Self-Management of Low Back Pain: Protocol for the selfBACK Project. Journal of Medical Internet Research. vol. 7 (7).
Nikpour, Hoda; Aamodt, Agnar; Bach, Kerstin. (2018) Bayesian-Supported Retrieval in BNCreek: A Knowledge-Intensive Case-Based Reasoning System. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 11156 LNAI.
Verma, Deepika; Bach, Kerstin; Mork, Paul Jarle. (2018) Modelling Similarity for Comparing Physical Activity Profiles - A Data-Driven Approach. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 11156 LNAI.

2017

Bach, Kerstin; Prestmo, Tale; Aamodt, Agnar; Mork, Paul Jarle. (2017) Diversity of Exercise Plans using Evolutionary Inspired Adaptation. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1917.
Prestmo, Tale; Bach, Kerstin; Aamodt, Agnar; Mork, Paul Jarle. (2017) Evolutionary inspired adaptation of exercise plans for increasing solution variety. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 10339 LNAI.
Skjold, Kari Fosshaug; Øynes, Marthe Sofie; Bach, Kerstin; Aamodt, Agnar. (2017) IntelliMeal - Enhancing Creativity by Reusing Domain Knowledge in the Adaptation Process. The Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2017) Workshop Proceedings.

2016

Bach, Kerstin; Szczepanski, Tomasz Szymon; Aamodt, Agnar; Gundersen, Odd Erik; Mork, Paul Jarle. (2016) Case Representation and Similarity Assessment in the SELFBACK Decision Support System. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 9969 LNCS.
Sizov, Gleb; Öztürk, Pinar; Bach, Kerstin. (2016) Evaluation of Explanations Extracted from Textual Reports. The Twenty-Ninth International Flairs Conference ; Hilton Key Largo Resort. 2016-06-16 - 2016-06-18.

2014

Bach, Kerstin; Sauer, Christian Severin; Althoff, Klaus-Dieter; Roth-Berghofer, Thomas R.. (2014) Knowledge Modeling with the Open Source Tool myCBR. 10th Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering . Nalepa, G. J., Baumeister, J. and Kaczor, K.; Prague. 2014-08-19 - 2014-08-19.

2013

Bach, Kerstin; Althoff, Klaus-Dieter. (2013) Model-based Classification of Unstructured Data Sources. ICCBR Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences (CBR-HS-13) . Isabelle Bichindaritz, Cindy Marling; Saragota Springs. 2013-07-08 - 2013-07-08.
Reuss, Pascal; Bach, Kerstin; Althoff, Klaus-Dieter. (2013) Dynamic retrieval of heterogeneous knowledge sources in a multi-agent system. Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM-2013) . Franz Lehner; Passau. 2013-03-14 - 2013-03-15.

2012

Bach, Kerstin. (2012) Knowledge Acquisition for Case-Based Reasoning Systems. 2012. ISBN 978-3-8439-1357-7.
Bach, Kerstin; Althoff, Klaus-Dieter. (2012) Developing Case-Based Reasoning Applications Using myCBR 3. International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-12) . Ian Watson and Belen Diaz Agudo; Lyon. 2012-09-03 - 2012-09-06.

2011

Bach, Kerstin; Althoff, Klaus-Dieter; Newo, Regis; Stahl, Armin. (2011) A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Providing Machine Diagnosis from Service Reports. International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-11) . Ashwin Ram and Nirmalie Wiratunga; London. 2011-09-12 - 2011-09-15.