PhD level
PhD candidates funded through NorwAI
David Baumgartner
Topic: Data analysis with noisy and low-quality data streams
Started: September 2021
Main supervisor: Prof. Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU
NorwAI Work Package: DATA - Data Platforms and Streaming Data
Nolwenn Bernard
Topic: Study of fairness and transparency in conversational recommender systems
Started: February 2022
Main supervisor: Prof. Krisztian Balog, University of Stavanger
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Tanja Knaus
Topic: Automation of affective data: infrastructure and data practices in voice recognition systems
Started: April 2022
Main supervisor: Prof. Susanne Bauer, University of Oslo
NorwAI Work Package: SOC - AI in Society
Weronika Łajewska
Topic: Personalizing Conversational Informational Access
Started: February 2022
Main supervisor: Prof. Krisztian Balog, University of Stavanger
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Katarzyna Michalowska
Topic: Informed machine learning
Started: January 2021
Supervisors: Prof. Morten Hjort-Jensen, University of Oslo, PhD Signe Riemer-Sørensen, SINTEF Digital
NorwAI Work Package: HYB - Hybrid AI Analytics
Serinha Murgorgo
Topic: Embracing Responsible AI: Integration of responsible AI principles in organisational practices
Started: August 2023
Main supervisor: Ass. Prof. Nhien Nguyen, NTNU
NorwAI Work Package: INNOECO- Innovation Ecosystems
Nikolay Nikolov
Topic: Flexible Deployment of Big Data Pipelines on the Cloud/Edge/Fog Continuum
Started: January 2021
Main supervisor: Dumitru Roman (Senior Research Scientist SINTEF, Assoc. Professor at UiO)
NorwAI Work Package: DATA - Data Platforms and Streaming Data
Egil Rønningstad
Topic: Norwegian Opinion summarization and Entity-level Sentiment Analysis
Started: October 2021
Main supervisor: Prof. Erik Velldal, University of Oslo
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Abdul Kazeem Shamba, NTNU
Topic: Artificial Intelligence for Anomaly Detection
Started: September 2023
Main Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Frank Kraemer
NorwAI Work Package: DATA - Data and Platform for AI
Jessica Annalena Steppe
Topic: AI-Augmented Creativity in Innovation Teams
Started: August 2023
Main supervisor: Ass. Prof. Nhien Nguyen, NTNU
NorwAI Work Package: INNOECO- Innovation Ecosystems
Espen Sund
Topic: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning - Parameter estimation under different models of trust
Started: January 2025
Main supervisor: Prof. Staal A. Vinterbo, NTNU
NorwAI Work Package: TRUST - Trustworthy AI
Ahmet Tüzen
Topic: Scalable multi-task dynamic graph learning framework
Started: December 2024
Main supervisor: Prof. Kjetil Nørvåg, NTNU
NorwAI Work Package: DATA - Data Platforms and Streaming Data
Bjørnar Vassøy
Topic: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Privacy in Personalization/Recommender systems
Started: August 2021
Main supervisor: Prof. Helge Langseth, NTNU
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Vandana Yadav
Topic: Natural Language Processing for personalized content summarization
Started: November 2023
Main supervisor: Prof. Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU
NorwAI Work Package: LAP - Language and Personalization
Also part of the PERSEUS Doctoral Programme
PhD candidates funded through other sources
Alae Ajraoui
Topic: Digital innovations implementation: A dynamic approach of continuous adaptation
Started: October 2023
Main supervisor: Nhien Nguyen, Associate Professor, NTNU, IØT
Nils Barlaug
Topic: Machine learning and explainability for data integration
Started: August 2019
Main supervisor: Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU
Project: Industrial PhD, Cognite/NTNU
Betül Bayrak
Topic: Explainable Case-Based Reasoning
Started: January 2022
Main supervisor: Kerstin Bach, Professor, NTNU
Project: EXAIGON
Yanzhe Bekkemoen
Topic: Probabilistic approaches to explainable AI and reinforcement learning
Started: October 2019
Main supervisor: Helge Langseth, Professor, NTNU
Anna Rodum Bjøru
Topic: Explainable deep bayesian learning
Started: November 2021
Main supervisor: Helge Langseth, Professor, NTNU
Project: EXAIGON
Tu My Doan
Topic: Political text mining
Started: January 2020
Main supervisor: Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU
Project: Trondheim Analytica, NTNU Digital Transformation Initiative
Hassan Abedi Firouzjaei
Topic: Querying and mining location-based social network data
Started: June 2019
Main supervisor: Kjetil Nørvåg, Professor, NTNU
Project: Trondheim Analytica, NTNU Digital Transformation Initiative
Ludvig Killingberg
Topic: Bayesian deep learning and reinforcement learning
Started: October 2019
Main supervisor: Helge Langseth, Professor, NTNU
Stella Maropaki
Topic: Database systems
Started: April 2016
Main supervisor: Kjetil Nørvåg, Professor, NTNU
Shiva Shadrooh
Topic: Anomaly detection in streaming graphs
Started: February 2020
Main supervisor: Kjetil Nørvåg, Professor, NTNU
Project: Big data & machine learning (DNB)
Yujie Xing
Topic: Generative Conversational Agents
Started: January 2021
Main supervisor: Jon Atle Gulla, Professor, NTNU
Project: Big data & machine learning (DNB)