About

Department of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University has around 800 students and 20 permanent faculty members. 

Department Chair

The Chair of the School of Computer Science is Henning Arnór Úlfarsson

Administration

Administrative Director is Sigurbjörg Ásta Hreinsdóttir.

School

The Department of Computer Science is a part of Reykjavik University's School of Technology.

Further information about the department can be found by contacting the faculty members or by sending an e-mail to the office at td@ru.is.

Anna

Anna Ingólfsdóttir

Professor

PhD from The University of Sussex. Research in the area of Theoretical Computer Science with special emphasis on the following aspects: 1 • Concurrency theory and its application in software development. • Mathematical and computational modelling in biology
Anna-sigga

Anna Sigríður Islind

Assistant Professor

PhD from University West in Sweden. Anna Sigga's research interest concerns design, development and use of digital artifacts and platforms as well as research regarding the impact of increased data flow, data work and datafication in society. 

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Assistant Professor

PhD in Computer Science from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Interested in Formal Verification –especially the foundations of Runtime Verification and Monitorability – and the interplay between Logic and Complexity Theory.
Bjorn

Björn Þór Jónsson

Associate Professor

Research work focuses primarily on the performance of content-based multimedia retrieval, as well as the performance and tuning of relational database systems. Björn has also done work on semantic caching, a client architecture for caching query results, and on the performance of information retrieval systems. 
Grischa

Grischa Liebel

Assistant Professor

Grischa is currently an Assistant Professor at Reykjavík University, Iceland. He holds a PhD degree in Software Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. His interests are in empirical software engineering, typically in close collaboration with industry – analysing and tackling actual problems together with practitioners. His expertise is in requirements engineering, model-based engineering, agile methods, and software engineering education.

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Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson

Adjunct

PhD from Rennes1 University in Rennes, France. During his PhD, he worked for INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), and his research was on content-based image retrieval using distributed systems and working with very large datasets (web-scale). 
He is a member of CRESS (Cress), where he leads the data-centric systems theme. His interests are all kinds of data collection, storage and processing, content-based image processing, distributed and cloud processing, as well as a general interest in UAVs and drones. 

Hallgrimur

Hallgrímur Arnalds

Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies


Hannes

Hannes H. Vilhjálmsson

Professor

PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he performed interdisciplinary research at the MIT Media Lab. Leads the Socially Expressive Computing research group at CADIA, which focuses on the computational modelling and simulation of human social expression in virtual and mixed environments. The chair of the RU Research Council. Co-founder of a couple of companies in the area of serious games for training.

Henning

Henning Arnór Úlfarsson

The Chair of the School of Computer Science, Assistant Professor 

PhD in Mathematics from Brown University. Served as the chair of the Icelandic Mathematics Society for several years. Does research in combinatorics, more specifically permutation patterns and algorithms for discovering and proving conjectures in that field.

Hrafn

Hrafn Loftsson

Associate Professor

PhD from the University of Sheffield. Research and development in Natural Language Processing, including part-of-speech tagging, parsing, corpus construction, information extraction, machine translation and computer-assisted language learning.

Jacqueline Clare Mallett

Jacqueline Clare Mallett

Assistant Professor

Interdisciplinary researcher, applying deep learning to time series analysis in medical health care, and other fields. Also working with simulation and modelling of distributed systems, and sensor networks. Designed and developed the first computer simulation of the modern banking system to be based on double entry book keeping. Appointed to the supervisory board of the Central Bank of Iceland in 2018 by the Pirate Party of Iceland.

Kári Halldórsson

Kári Halldórsson

Adjunct


Kristinn

Kristinn R. Thórisson

Professor

PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he performed interdisciplinary research at the MIT Media Lab. Dr. Thórisson co-founded RU's Center for Analysis & Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA), the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines, as well as several startups. He is a member of the Swedish government's advisory committee for AI and has advised the Prime Minster of Iceland on the 4th Industrial Revolution. Dr. Thórisson is a two-time recipient of the Kurzweil Award for his research on general machine intelligence.
Luca Aceto

Luca Aceto

Chair of Department of Computer Science

Professor

Luca Aceto (PhD, University of Sussex) is scientific co-director of ICE-TCS, the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science, and was the president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in the period July 2012-July 2016. Since July 2014, he is an elected member of the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe. His research focuses on concurrency theory, semantics of programming and specification languages, and logic in computer science. 

Magnus Már Halldórsson

Magnús M. Halldórsson

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies 

Research on algorithms and complexity in a world of big data, including approximation, online, and streaming algorithms. Current main focus on bandwidth-efficient distributed algorithms. Past interests on wireless networking and bioinformatics. 

Marcel Kyas

Marcel Kyas

Assistant Professor

Indoor positioning and indoor navigation. Embedded systems. Internet of things.
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María Óskarsdóttir

Assistant Professor

PhD from KU Leuven in Belgium. María's research interests include data science and analytics, network science, mobility, and machine learning with applications in industry.

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Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir

Associate Professor

PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The chair for the CRESS research center. Her research is focus on user experience (UX) and usability of software system, where agile processes are used, e.g. Scrum and Kanban. 

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Stephan Schiffel

Assistant Professor

Tarmo

Tarmo Uustalu

Professor

PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. My research interests include structural proof theory and type theory, algebraic and categorical logic, semantics of programming languages, type systems and program logics, functional programming, constructive mathematics.

Yngvi Björnsson

Yngvi Björnsson

Professor

Artificial Intelligence, Heuristic Search, General Game Playing, Computer Games

 

 


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