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People in NorwAI

NorwAI Core - Center Management Team
Center Director - Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU
Program Manager - Kerstin Bach, Professor, NTNU
Research Director - Kjetil Nørvåg, 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 - Anne Marthine Rustad, Research Manager, SINTEF
Member NorwAI Core - Helge Langseth, Professor, NTNU
Member NorwAI Core - Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, Associate Professor, NTNU
Member NorwAI Core - Frank Alexander Kraemer, Associate Professor, NTNU
Executive Board
Chair Executive Board- Sven Størmer Thaulow, Chief Data and Technology Officer, Schibsted Media Group
Members of the Executive Board:
Ingrid Schjølberg, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, NTNU
Sergei Savenko, CTO, Retriever
Frank Børre Pedersen, Vice President & Program Director "Future of Digital Assurance", DNV
Trond Runar Hagen, Research Director, SINTEF
Dagfinn Myhre, Senior Vice President, Head of Telenor Research (acting)
Stein-Roar Skånhaug Bjørnstad, CTO, Kongsberg Digital
Gøril Forbord, EVP Technology, TrønderEnergi
Karl Aksel Festø, Head of CoE Advanced Analytics, DNB
John Markus Lervik, CEO, Cognite
Liv Dingsør, CEO, Digital Norway
Stephan Oepen, Head of Department for Informatics, University of Oslo
Heidrun Reisæter, Director of Technology, NRK
Astrid Undheim, Executive Director, Sparebank1 SMN
Tom Ryen, Head of Department for Informatics, University of Stavanger
André Teigland, Deputy Director, NR
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: Personalization, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning for Banking and Finance
Period: 2021-2024
The position is funded by 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 Workpackage: HYB - Hybrid AI Analytics
Nikolay Nikolov (UiO/SINTEF)
Topic: Flexible Deployment of Big Data Pipelines on the Cloud/Edge/Fog Continuum
Period: 2021-2024
NorwAI Workpackage: DATA - Data and Platform for AI
Bjørnar Vassøy (NTNU)
Topic: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Privacy in Personalization/Recommender systems
Period: 2021-2025
NorwAI Workpackage: LAP - Language and Personalization
David Baumgartner (NTNU)
Topic: Data analysis with noisy and low-quality data streams
Period: 2021-2025
NorwAI Workpackage: STREAM - AI for Streaming and Sensor-based Data
Egil Rønningstad (UiO)
Topic: Norwegian Opinion summarisation and Entity-level Sentiment Analysis
Period: 2021-2024
NorwAI Workpackage: LAP - Language and Personalization
Weronika Łajewska (UiS)
Topic: Personalizing Conversational Informational Access
Period: 2022-2025
NorwAI Workpackage: LAP - Language and Personalization
Nolwenn Bernard (UiS)
Topic: Study of fairness and transparency in conversational recommender systems
Period: 2022-2025
NorwAI Workpackage: LAP - Language and Personalization