People
People in NorwAI
NorwAI Core - Center Management Team
Center Director - Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU
Research Director - Kerstin Bach, Professor, NTNU
Innovation Director - Arne Jørgen Berre, Chief Scientist, SINTEF
Administrative Coordinator - Karolina Storesund, Senior Advisor, NTNU
Communications Manager - Rolf Dyrnes Svendsen, Head, Nxt Media Lab
Member NorwAI Core - Signe Riemer-Sørensen, Research Manager, SINTEF
Member NorwAI Core - Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, Associate Professor, NTNU
Member NorwAI Core - Frank Alexander Kraemer, Associate Professor, NTNU
Member NorwAI Core - Terje Brasethvik, Associate Professor, NTNU
Executive Board
Chair Executive Board- Sven Størmer Thaulow, Chief Data and Technology Officer, Schibsted Media Group
Members of the Executive Board:
Gøril Forbord, EVP Technology, Aneo (prev. TrønderEnergi)
John Markus Lervik, CEO, Cognite
Liv Dingsør, CEO, Digital Norway
Karl Aksel Festø, Head of CoE Advanced Analytics, DNB
Frank Børre Pedersen, Vice President & Program Director "Future of Digital Assurance", DNV
Stein-Roar Skånhaug Bjørnstad, CTO, Kongsberg Digital
Anders Løland, Research Director, NR
Birgitte Kvammen, IT Project and Portfolio Manager, NRK
Ingelin Steinsland, Vice Dean Research, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, NTNU
Trond Runar Hagen, Research Director, SINTEF
Astrid Undheim, Executive Director, Sparebank1 SMN
Nenad Keseric, SVP Director Innovation and Technology development, Statnett
Dagfinn Myhre, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research
Stephan Oepen, Head of Department for Informatics, University of Oslo
Tom Ryen, Head of Department for Informatics, University of Stavanger
Scientific Advisory Board
Chair of the scientific advisory board - Christian S. Jensen, Professor, Aalborg University
Members of the scientific advisory board:
- Concha Bielza, Professor, Technical University of Madrid
- Maarten De Rijke, Professor, University of Amsterdam
- Virginia Dignum, Professor, Umeå University
AI Innovation Board
Chair of the AI Innovation Board - Ieva Martinkenaite, VP Analytics and AI, Telenor
Members of the AI Innovation Board:
- Sophie V. Vandebroek, Board Director, Trustee, Advisor
- Saskia Steinacker, Global Head Strategy & Digital Transformation, Bayer
- John Markus Lervik, Founder & CEO, Cognite
- Øystein Larsen Indrevær, Senior Vice President Data-driven Sales, DNB
Postdoctoral fellows
Topic: Language models for natural language processing, Conversational systems
Period: 2020-2023
The position is funded by SFI NorwAI
Topic: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Active Learning, and GFlowNet
Period: 2023-2026
The position is funded by SFI NorwAI
Topic: Personalization, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning for Banking and Finance
Period: 2021-2023
The position was funded by the Big data & machine learning project, NTNU/DNB
Topic: Streaming Data Analytics
Period: 2022-2025
The position is funded by the IDI Multi-Source Event Detection (MUSED) research project
PhD candidates
Katarzyna Michalowska (UiO/SINTEF)
Topic: Informed machine learning
Period: 2021-2024
NorwAI Work Package: HYB - Hybrid AI Analytics
Topic: Flexible Deployment of Big Data Pipelines on the Cloud/Edge/Fog Continuum
Period: 2021-2024
NorwAI Work Package: DATA - Data and Platform for AI
Topic: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Privacy in Personalization/Recommender systems
Period: 2021-2025
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Topic: Data analysis with noisy and low-quality data streams
Period: 2021-2025
NorwAI Work Package: STREAM - AI for Streaming and Sensor-based Data
Topic: Norwegian Opinion summarisation and Entity-level Sentiment Analysis
Period: 2021-2024
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Topic: Personalizing Conversational Informational Access
Period: 2022-2025
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Topic: Study of fairness and transparency in conversational recommender systems
Period: 2022-2025
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Topic: Automation of affective data: infrastructure and data practices in voice recognition systems
Period: 2022-2025
NorwAI Work Package: SOC - AI in Society
Topic: Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Period: 2023-2026
NorwAI Work Package: TRUST- Trustworthy AI