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Grischa Liebel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web: Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gylfi \u00de\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Gylfi \u00de\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bj\u00f6rn \u00de\u00f3r J\u00f3nsson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bj\u00f6rn \u00de\u00f3r J\u00f3nsson holds a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Bj\u00f6rn works within the broad field of Multimedia Analytics, applying data management techniques to improve the scalability of multimedia analytics and retrieval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Marcel Kyas<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcel is a co-founder of the RIoT lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stef\u00e1n \u00d3lafsson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Stef\u00e1n \u00d3lafsson 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Associate Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mar\u00eda \u00d3skarsd\u00f3ttir<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mar\u00eda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hans Peter Reiser<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Postdocs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Omar Shahbaz Khan<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Pragya Verma<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pragya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PhD Students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Marcos Vinicius Cruz<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Marcos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naizeth N\u00fa\u00f1ez Mac\u00edas<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Naizeth N\u00fa\u00f1ez Mac\u00edas 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daiana Mara de Oliveira<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Daiana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maria Eirini Pegia<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Maria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PhD Student<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lokamruth K R<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lokamruth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. Web: Personal Website Gylfi \u00de\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson Gylfi \u00de\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson was a student at RU (BSc & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":79,"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cress.ru.is\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}