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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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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Stefán Ólafsson
Stefán Ólafsson received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Boston MA in 2021. His research is at the intersection of natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and health sciences.
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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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Postdocs
Omar Shahbaz Khan
Omar
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Nidia Guadalupe Lopez Flores
Nidia López Flores holds a PhD in Computer Science from Reykjavik University and an MSc in Business Analytics and Management Sciences from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She is conducting research with an emphasis on Learning Analytics, together with María Óskarsdóttir and Anna Sigridur Islind.
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PhD Students
Marcos Vinicius Cruz
Marcos.
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Naizeth Núñez Macías
Naizeth Núñez Macías did her Master’s in Linguistics with focus on Computational Linguistics and Neurolinguistics from Bielefeld University, Germany. Her current Ph.D. project focuses on natural language processing methods in the context of speech-language pathology.
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Daiana Mara de Oliveira
Daiana
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Maria Eirini Pegia
Maria.
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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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Lokamruth K R
Lokamruth.
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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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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.
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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Alumni
Shalini Chakraborty
Shalini Chakraborty has done her master’s in Computer and Information Science from India. Shalini defended her PhD on Model Based Engineering (MBE), Empirical Research and teaching SE, working with Grischa Liebel.
Majd Radwan Mohammad Soud
Majd holds an MSc in Computer Science from Jordan. She defended her PhD in Software Engineering under the supervision of Grischa Liebel and Mohammad Hamdaqa on smart contract security.