My group works across five themes. Open-source projects and recent talks are below.
Language models, datasets, and evaluation resources for Icelandic, Faroese, and other under-resourced Germanic languages. The IceBERT family, FoQA, the gender-bias evaluation set, the Hotter and Colder sentiment corpus, and a strand of work on prompt engineering and fine-tuning for low-resource machine translation.
Applied vision in collaboration with the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, agricultural science groups, and food-science partners. Few-shot otolith aging, multispectral nematode segmentation in Atlantic cod, gait classification for five-gaited horses, drought-response analysis on subarctic grasslands, and vision-language features for automated fish monitoring.
Joint work with the Icelandic National Hospital on automated clinical coding (ICD-10 from discharge summaries with Icelandic BERT models) and on the Icelandic Heart Failure Registry. Several international surveys on heart-failure management with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
Research-scientist position at Amgen deCODE. Genome-wide-association work on common conditions where the analysis intersects with NLP-style methods, including a Nature Communications paper on BMI-associated variants and disease risk.
PhD-era and ongoing work on emergent behaviour in models of cortical networks. Bootstrap percolation with inhibition, fast Hebbian spike-latency normalisation, and synfire-chain emergence under spike-timing-dependent plasticity.
Datasets, models, and tools released by the group. Most live on Hugging Face or GitHub; see the linked publication for context.
The first dedicated question-answering dataset for Faroese, with extractive and generative variants. Built through translation and adaptation of existing QA benchmarks combined with native-speaker validation, and accompanied by baseline evaluations of multilingual and Faroese-tuned language models. Released alongside the RESOURCEFUL 2025 paper.
A gamified mobile-app platform for crowdsourcing multi-domain question-answering datasets. Demonstrated at EACL 2023 System Demonstrations and used to collect the RUQuAD-1 reading-comprehension dataset for Icelandic.
An Icelandic sentiment corpus of blog comments annotated with nuanced labels for sentiment, emotions, toxicity, sarcasm, hate speech, sympathy, and related categories. Distributed via the University of Iceland, with the companion methodology paper at NoDaLiDa / Baltic-HLT 2025.
A family of Icelandic BERT-style language models pre-trained on the Icelandic Crawled Corpus. Released alongside the LREC 2022 paper with Miðeind, the IceBERT checkpoints have become the foundation for much of the subsequent Icelandic NLP work in our group and elsewhere.
An Icelandic adaptation of the WinoGrande commonsense-reasoning benchmark, built to evaluate Icelandic language models on pronoun disambiguation and world-knowledge tasks. Released by Miðeind ehf.
An entity-linking corpus for Icelandic built on top of the MIM-GOLD named-entity collection. Released with the University of Iceland and introduced at LREC 2022; the companion methodology paper appeared at the Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages workshop.
A benchmark for testing sequential decision-making in language models through navigation tasks in procedurally generated mazes. Single-author preprint with the benchmark released alongside the paper.
An open-domain question-answering dataset for Icelandic, adapted from the English Natural Questions benchmark. Released in two versions (v1.0 at LREC 2022 and an updated v1.1) and distributed through the University of Iceland for evaluating Icelandic QA systems.
The Reykjavik University Question-Answering Dataset for Icelandic, a SQuAD-style reading-comprehension benchmark collected through the GameQA mobile platform. Distributed via the University of Iceland.
Talk at the SAR forum
SAR málþing, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Results of the Icelandic AI usage survey
AI usage survey presentation, Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
Research seminar
Amgen deCODE, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Eru risamállíkön verri á íslensku? (Are large language models worse at Icelandic?)
UTmessan — AI Norðurljós track, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in clinical practice
Læknadagar (Icelandic Medical Days), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI for medical students
Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
KatlaCode in the TrustLLM context
TrustLLM / KatlaCode presentation · workshop
Talk at Vísindavefurinn's 25th anniversary
Vísindavefurinn 25th anniversary, Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
TrustLLM project presentation
TrustLLM consortium meeting · workshop
Prompt engineering for researchers
Prompt engineering workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland · workshop
AI in nursing
Icelandic Nurses' Association (Félag hjúkrunarfræðinga), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Data quality for AI
SKÝ data quality conference, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Teachers' attitudes and perceptions of AI usefulness in academia
ICERI 2025 · workshop
University of Iceland teachers' attitudes and experience with generative AI
Menntakvika 2025, Reykjavik, Iceland · workshop
AI and society in Iceland
Þjóðarspegillinn (Mirror of the Nation), Icelandic social sciences conference, Reykjavik, Iceland · workshop
AI and continuing education
Símennt continuing education forum, Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
AI in health and life sciences
Life and Health Sciences conference, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in education research
Menntakvika 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland · workshop
AI in design
NordDesign 2024 · invited
Applications of BERT models towards automation of clinical coding in Icelandic
NAACL 2024 Findings, Mexico City, Mexico · invited
Clinical AI in Iceland
Landspítali (Icelandic National University Hospital), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in biology
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Talk on AI
Veritas conference, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in continuing education
Continuing education conference (Framhaldsfræðsla), Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
Talk at the Science and Innovation Awards
University of Iceland Science and Innovation Awards (Vísinda- og nýsköpunarverðlaun), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in language teaching
Association of German Teachers in Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI and Icelandic language teaching
Association of Upper Secondary School Icelandic Teachers (Félag framhaldsskólakennara í íslensku), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Mistök gervigreindar (Mistakes of artificial intelligence)
UTmessan, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in Nordic university administration
NUAS (Nordic University Administrators) · invited
AI in business
MBA Programme, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in Nordic universities
NORRIC · invited
AI standards and governance
Standards Council of Iceland (Staðlaráð), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in adult education
Rannís adult education forum, Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
AI for lifelong learners
University of the Third Age (U3A), Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
AI in health sciences
School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
HPC for language modelling
Icelandic HPC workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland · workshop
AI and ethics
UNESCO forum on AI and Ethics · invited
AI and the legal profession
Bifröst University, Faculty of Law, Bifröst, Iceland · invited
Talk on AI
Kvasir, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in teaching
Icelandic Teaching Academy conference (Kennsluakademían), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in agricultural research
Agricultural University of Iceland (Landbúnaðarháskólinn), Hvanneyri, Iceland · invited
AI and psychology
Faculty of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI and society
Rotary Club of Seltjarnarnes, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland · outreach
AI in finance and banking
Central Bank of Iceland (Seðlabanki Íslands), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI and the legal profession
Icelandic Bar Association (Lögfræðingafélag Íslands), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI in higher education
University of Akureyri teaching conference, Akureyri, Iceland · invited
Icelandic language resources for the ELRC
ELRC workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland · workshop
Computer vision for fish stock assessment
Marine and Freshwater Research Institute of Iceland (Hafró), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
AI for the curious
Vísindavaka (European Researchers' Night), Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
Icelandic resources at LREC
LREC 2022, Marseille, France · workshop
AI in engineering education
Nordtek conference · invited
UTmessan 2022
UTmessan, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
HPC for language modelling
Icelandic HPC workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland · workshop
Guest lecture on language technology
University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Research seminar
Amgen deCODE ML group, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Public talk on AI
Reykjavík City Library (Borgarbókasafn), Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
AI in education
Menntaþing (Education forum), Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach
Talk on language technology and AI
Icelandic Language Technology Conference (Máltækniráðstefnan), Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
UTmessan 2021
UTmessan, Reykjavik, Iceland · invited
Nationally broadcast interview on AI
RÚV (Icelandic National Broadcaster), Reykjavik, Iceland · outreach