IIIM - Key Persons
Bridget Burger has comprehensive experience in creating synergistic platforms for community-based organizations, NGOs and non-profit organizations, and has been a co-awardee of grants from the European Union and the National Science Foundation. She has a certificate in STEM program evaluation from the Harvard Medical School's PEAR Institute, a B.A. in economics and political science from Yale and an M.A. in education from Lesley University.
Job Titles:
- Programmer
- Research Scientist
Dr. Eythor Ivar Jonsson, DBA, was CEO of Klak, Reykjavik, Iceland, where he directed one of he primary incubation outfits in Iceland. Before joining Klak he held an Associate Professor position at Copenhagen Business School. He is Chairman of the Board of over a dozen Danish companies.
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- CEO of Nýherji, Reykjavik
Dr. Finnur Oddsson, CEO of Nýherji, Reykjavik, Iceland. Former Managing Director of Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Oddsson works with many of Iceland's largest organizations, public and private, in various capacities. Prior to his current post he was Director of MBA Programs at Reykjavik University, and Director of Executive Education and Assistant Professors.
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- Managing Partner
- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Gísli Hjálmtýsson is the Managing Partner of the venture capital company Thule Investments and is a former IIIM Board Member. Dr. Hjálmtýsson has a Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, Santa Barbara and has been involved in numerous ventures in Iceland and elsewhere. He has served as Dean of Computer Science at Reykjavik University (2001-2007) and was a researcher at AT&T Labs - Research in the US (1995-2000).
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- Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Reykjavik
Dr. Hannes H. Vilhjálmsson is Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Reykjavik University and member of the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, RU's AI lab. Dr. Vilhjálmsson is a former Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Research on Technology for Education (CARTE) at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and co-founder, board-member and technical advisor of Alelo Inc. His research focus is intelligent avatars and interactive virtual environments with emphasis on social interaction and collaboration.
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Dr. Ipke Wachsmuth, was Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany and Chair of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bielefeld. Dr. Wachsmuth has a strong multidisciplinary publications in several fields, including cognitive learning research, intelligent tutoring systems, virtual reality and multimodal interaction. He is former president of the German Cognitive Science Society and served as co-director of the Collaborative Research Center "Alignment in Communication".
Dr. Jacky Mallett graduated from MIT in 2005. She has over 2 decades of industry experience, designing, building and troubleshooting distributed systems and networks, with extensive experience in real-time critical systems, cybersecurity, high performance computing, signal processing, and wide area networking.
Job Titles:
- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
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- Co - Founder
- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Jörg Siekmann, is Co-Founder & of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and served as its Scientific Director. Dr. Siekmann was a founding Chairman of the German AI Society, a Fellow of the German Computer Science Society (GI), Chairman of the Collaborative Research Centre on Resource-Bounded Cognitive Processes, among others.
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- Associate Professor at Temple University
Dr. Pei Wang is an Associate Professor at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Indiana University, and his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science, both from Peking University, China. Dr. Wang's NARS (Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System) is one of the world's main proposals for how to create general-purpose learning system. He has authored several books on AI and is the co-creator of the International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence.
Job Titles:
- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
Dr. Rosalind Picard, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory. She has served on dozens of international science committees and recently chaired the National Science Foundations Committee of Visitors for the Information and Intelligent Systems Division. She has also worked as a consultant for companies such as Apple, AT&T, BT, HP, iRobot, and Motorola.
Dr. Sigríður Ólafsdóttir is Director Regulatory Surveilance at Alvotech, Iceland, and Chairman of the board of Icelandic Infrastructure Fund. Dr. Ólafsdóttir holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry with expertise in biotechnology, drug development, research and leadership. She has professional experience as a CEO and research group leader in drug development companies and as an independent consultant. Dr. Ólafsdóttir's has served on the Board of Nordic Innovation, the Council of the University of Iceland, Board of the Icelandic Technology Development Fund, and board memberships of various start-up biotech companies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Professor and Associate
Dr. Stacy Marsella is Professor and Associate Dean of Research at Northeastern University, College of Computer and Information Science, United States. Before joining NU he was a Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Associate Director for Social Simulation Research at the Institute of Creative Technologies, and Co-Director of the USC Computational Emotion Group. He leads projects on virtual humans, social simulation, interactive drama, emotions and theory of mind.
Job Titles:
- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Dr. Yngvi Björnsson, is Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, Reykjavik University and was its Dean for several years. Dr. Björnsson is the co-founder and current Director of the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, Reykjavik University's AI lab. Before joining RU he was a Research Associate with the GAMES research group at University of Alberta, Canada and he is the world's only three-time winner of the international General Game Playing Competition. His research focus is AI, in particular informed search methods, learning of search-control and machine learning.
Goncalo De Carvalho received his M.Sc. degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Before joining IIIM he did AI research at the Cardiology Department at UMCG, Pennie Solutions in Groningen, and worked at the VSNU University Think Tank.
Job Titles:
- Researcher Scientist, Principal Programmer
Job Titles:
- Senior Programmer
- Senior Researcher
Hlynur Halldórsson, HRL, graduated from the Law School of the University of Iceland in 1994. In year 1999 he received L.LM. degree from Queen Mary & Westfield College at University of London in Computer and Communications Law. He worked as an attorney for Iceland's largest shipping company, Eimskip for several years before he became an associate and later a partner at LM Logmenn. Halldórsson has been a partner of Landslog since 2010. His areas of expertise are technology law, copyright law, competition law, maritime law and banking law.
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- Thórisson, Research Specialist
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- Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science
Dr. John B. Vander Sande, is the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-founder of American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC). Dr. Vander Sande was Associate Dean and Acting Dean of Engineering at MIT from 1992 to 1999 and was founding Executive Director of the Cambridge (England)-MIT Institute from 1999 to 2003. He served the position of Acting Provost for two years Reykjavik University (2009-2010).
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Scientist
Jeff Thompson studied computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, with a focus on microrobotics and automation. Before joining IIIM he worked at the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at the University of California, Berkeley and as an independent consultant and contractor for numerous software development and network design projects. Jeff's industry and research experience includes software architecture design, coding and release management for commercial cryptography, tool automation and a cleanroom production tracking database systems for micromachine manufacturing, and open-source networking libraries in multiple programming languages. At IIIM he is responsible for next-generation AI technologies, including causal reasoning, self-programming and self-healing systems.
Job Titles:
- Programmer
- Research Scientist
Þórunn Sigfúsdóttir has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry in the area of computer science and software development. She has worked closely with many startup businesses in their sprouting phase, from product design to prototype to product launch as Director of Software Development at Daedalus Technology Group, based in New York, bridging an R&D team with venture capital stakeholders. Þórunn is currently Director of Workforce Services at Trackwell Software overseeing the product strategy and business development of MRM solutions.