Faculty
Grischa Liebel
Grischa Liebel holds a Ph.D. from Chalmers University, Sweden, on Model-Based Requirements Engineering. Grischa conducts research on Software Engineering, Human Factors, and Education. He is a member of the editorial board for Springer Empirical Software Engineering.
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Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson
Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson was a student at RU (BSc & MSc). He followed that with a PhD in Rennes, France. He won the Inria@SiliconValley grant and was at UC Berkeley, USA, as a post-doc(with AMP-Lab). After the post-doc he joined RU, and CRESS, back in 2015. Gylfi has wide range of interest including: CV, CBIR, Big Data systems, drones, security etc.
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Anna Sigríður Islind
Anna Sigríður Islind holds a Ph.D. from University West in Sweden. Anna Sigga works within information systems in general tackling data-driven healthcare and societal issues, in particular. She is the leader of all digital innovation in a large-scale European Union Horizon 2020 project called the Sleep Revolution which was awarded 15 million Euros with 39 partners across Europe.
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Björn Þór Jónsson
Björn Þór Jónsson holds a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Björn works within the broad field of Multimedia Analytics, applying data management techniques to improve the scalability of multimedia analytics and retrieval.
Marcel Kyas
Marcel Kyas received his Ph.D. from the University of Leiden in 2006. Since 2015, he has worked at Reykjavik University. He researches indoor positioning systems and their empirical validation, Cyber-Physical Systems and their safety and security, and autonomous robotics.
Marcel is a co-founder of the RIoT lab.
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Hans Peter Reiser
Hans P. Reiser holds a PhD from Ulm University, Germany, and joined Reykjavik University in January 2022. He works on secure and reliable distributed systems, specifically on virtual machine introspection and its applications in malware detection, analysis and digital forensics, as well as on intrusion-tolerant systems and Byzantine fault tolerant algorithms.
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PhD Students
Camilla Carpinelli
Camilla holds an MSc in Computer Engineering from University of Salerno, Italy, and is currently working towards a PhD under the supervision of María Óskarsdóttir and Anna Sigríður Islind. Camilla’s work is on Data Analysis and Machine Learning to analyse and predict food consumption and food purchasing trends, aiming to avoid food waste and increase sustainability.
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Shalini Chakraborty
Shalini Chakraborty has done her master’s in Computer and Information Science from India, currently pursuing PhD in Iceland. Shalini is working with Model Based Engineering (MBE), Empirical Research and teaching SE. Also interested to find out more about Human Factors in SE and diversity in technology.
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Ioana Visescu
Ioana Visescu holds an MSc in Engineering from Aarhus University, Denmark, and is currently working towards a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Marta Larusdottir and Dr. Anna Sigridur Islind. Ioana’s work is in the UX and HCI fields, with a focus on design sprints and design methodologies.
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Lilja Guðrún Jóhannsdóttir
Lilja Guðrún Jóhannsdóttir. She is purshuing a PhD with the emphasis on digital nudging, under the supervison of Anna Sigríður Islind and María Óskarsdóttir.
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Nidia Guadalupe Lopez Flores
Nidia López Flores holds an MSc in Business Analytics and Management Sciences from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She is pursuing a PhD, with a research emphasis on Learning Analytics, under the supervision of María Óskarsdóttir and Anna Sigridur Islind.
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Ilham Ahmed Qasse
Ilham Ahmed Qasse received her bachelor’s (B.Sc.) and master’s (M.Sc.) degrees from the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her B.Sc. degree was in computer engineering, and her M.Sc. degree was in computer science. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Reykjavik University. Her interest is blockchain technology, particularly smart contracts, and software engineering.
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Aida Sadeghi
Aida Sadeghi. She is purshuing a PhD, with a research emphasis on dynamic multilayered networks, under the supervision of María Óskarsdóttir and Anna Sigríður Islind.
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Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir
Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir has an MSc in Computational Engineering from the University of Iceland, part of which was completed at Aarhus University. She is pursuing a PhD, with a research emphasis on health platforms, under the supervision of Anna Sigridur Islind and María Óskarsdóttir.
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Majd Radwan Mohammad Soud
Majd holds an MSc in Computer Science from Jordan and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Software Engineering under the supervision of Grischa Liebel and Mohammad Hamdaqa. Her research focuses on Software Engineering, specifically Mining Software Repositories, Software Security, Program Repair, and Empirical Software Engineering. She is particularly interested in the domain of blockchain technology and specializes in improving smart contract quality and security.
Joshua David Springer
Joshua holds a joint MSc in computer science from Mälardalen University (Västerås, Sweden) and Reykjavík University. He is pursuing a PhD in computer science under the supervision of Marcel Kyas, focusing on autonomous drone control and real time landing site evaluation with fiducial markers and terrain analysis in solidified lava flows.