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Current PhD and master's students, recent alumni, and PhD-committee positions.

PhD students (main supervisor)

Three PhDs working at the intersection of language modelling, bias evaluation, and applied vision.

Annika Simonsen

PhD candidate

TrustLLM: aligning language models for Germanic languages

Joao Rodrigo Da Silva Martins

PhD candidate

PhD with the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Iceland

Steinunn Rut Friðriksdóttir

PhD candidate

Mitigating prejudice in language models

PhD committee positions

Committee memberships across the University of Iceland and partner institutions.

Amir Hamedpour

PhD candidate

Bjarki Ármannsson

PhD candidate

Emil Harðarson

PhD candidate

Isidora Glisic

PhD candidate

Pétur Helgi Einarsson

PhD candidate

Sindri Emmanúel Antonsson

PhD candidate

Þór Sverrisson

PhD candidate

PhD at University of Iceland (previously MSc supervisee on abstractive summarization)

Current master’s students

Haukur Barri Símonarson

MSc student

PhD alumni (committee)

Doctoral graduates whose committees I served on.

Recent MSc alumni

Alexander Guðmundsson

MSc alumnus

Evaluating Speech Technology Integration in Children's Reading Education

Andrea Rakel Sigurðardóttir

MSc alumnus

Few-shot nematode detection with multi-spectral imaging

PhD at University of Iceland

Annika Simonsen

MSc alumnus

Improving Machine Translation for Faroese using ChatGPT-Generated Parallel Data

Now my PhD student

Atli Snær Ásmundsson

MSc alumnus

Sentiment analysis with IceBERT for Icelandic blogs

PhD student at Reykjavík University

Haraldur Orri Hauksson

MSc alumnus

ICD-10 classification for Icelandic

Hörður Helgi Helgason

MSc alumnus

Evaluating LLM performance on complex domain-specific classification tasks — automated evaluation of gold-plating in EU legal transposition

Hrafnhildur Hauksdóttir

MSc alumnus

Heart failure pharmacotherapy after discharge at Landspítali

Joao Rodrigo Da Silva Martins

MSc alumnus

Fish Species Classification in Controlled Underwater Environments Using Contrastive Language-Image Models

PhD with the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Iceland

Kim Cosmo Ström

MSc alumnus

Drawing Music

Margrét Snorradóttir

MSc alumnus

Creativity and ADHD: Exploring the Role of Hyperfocus and Divergent Thinking

Steinar Bragi Sigurðarson

MSc alumnus

AI-assisted book recommendations for children

Þór Sverrisson

MSc alumnus

Abstractive summarization for Icelandic

PhD at University of Iceland

Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson

MSc alumnus

QA method for Icelandic

PhD at University of Copenhagen and ETH Zurich

Yevhen Bilyi

MSc alumnus

Predicting opioid tapering outcomes with machine learning: feature engineering and model comparison