Research Faculty and Staff
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| Name | Position | Education | Research area | Research centre | |
| Anna Ingólfsdóttir |
Professor |
Ph.D., University of Sussex, 1991 |
Concurrency Theory; Process Algebra; Logic in Computer Science |
ICE-TCS |
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| Björn Þór Jónsson |
Associate Professor and Dean |
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1999 |
Multimedia Database Systems; Database Performance and Tuning |
Datalab |
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Deon Garrett |
Assistant Professor
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Ph.D., University of Memphis, 2008 | Machine learning, Metaheuristics and Multi-objective Optimization | IIIM - Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines |
| Hannes H. Vilhjálmsson |
Associate Professor |
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 |
Social and linguistic behavior modeling; Virtual environments |
CADIA |
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Henning Arnór Úlfarsson |
Assistant Professor |
Ph.D., Brown University, 2009 |
Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics |
School of Computer Science, RU |
| Hrafn Loftsson |
Assistant Professor |
Ph.D., University of Sheffield, 2007 |
Language Technology; Natural Language Processing |
ICLT |
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Kristinn R. Þórisson |
Associate Professor |
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 |
Artificial Intelligence; Natural Communication with Computers; Cognitive Robotics |
CADIA |
| Luca Aceto | Professor | Ph.D., University of Sussex, 1991 | Concurrency Theory; Process Algebra; Logic in Computer Science | ICE-TCS | |
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Magnús M. Halldórsson | Professor | Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1991 | Algorithms, Bioinformatics; Networked computation | ICE-TCS |
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Marjan Sirjani |
Associate Professor |
Ph.D., Sharif University of Technology, 2004 |
Formal Methods in Software Engineering, Concurrent Systems, Model Checking |
ICE-TCS and Ice-Rose |
| Marta K. Lárusdóttir | Assistant Professor | Cand. Scient., Copenhagen University, 1996 | User-Centered Software Development; User Interface Design | Ice-Rose | |
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Sergey Kitaev |
Associate Professor |
Ph.D., Göteborg University, 2003 |
Algebraic Combinatorics |
School of Computer Science, RU |
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Úlfar Erlingsson |
Associate Professor |
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2003 |
Computer systems; computer security | |
| Yngvi Björnsson |
Associate Professor |
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 2002 |
Artificial Intelligence; Heuristic Search; Machine Learning |
CADIA |
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Ýmir Vigfússon |
Adjunct |
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2009 |
Networked systems, cloud computing, optimization in distributed systems. |
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| STAFF | |||||
| Name | Position | Education | Research area | Research centre | |
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Eric Nivel | Specialist | M.Sc. | Artificial Intelligence; Distributed Systems; Interactive Systems | CADIA |
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Pradipta Mitra |
Postdoctoral researcher |
Ph.D., Yale University, 2008 |
Algorithms |
ICE-TCS |
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Stephan Schiffel |
Postdoctoral researcher |
Dr.rer.nat., Technische Universität Dresden, (exp. summer 2011) |
Artificial intelligence; Heuristic search; General game playing; Action formalisms |
CADIA |
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Ute Schiffel |
Postdoctoral researcher |
Dr.Ing., Technische Universität Dresden, (exp. May 2011) |
Dependable systems; Systems Engineering |
School of Computer Science, RU |












