Professor Jim Torresen,
Jim Torresen received his
M.Sc. and Dr.ing. (Ph.D) degrees in computer architecture and design from the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Trondheim in 1991
and 1996, respectively. He has been employed as a senior hardware designer at
NERA Telecommunications (1996-1998) and at Navia
Aviation (1998-1999). Since 1999, he has been a professor at the Department of
Informatics at the University of Oslo (associate professor 1999-2005). Jim Torresen has been a visiting researcher at Kyoto
University, Japan for one year (1993-1994), four months at Electrotechnical
laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan (1997 and 2000) and a visiting professor at Cornell
University, USA for one year (2010-2011).
His research interests at the moment include bio-inspired
computing, machine learning, reconfigurable hardware, robotics and applying
this to complex real-world applications. Several novel methods have been
proposed. He has published approximately 150 scientific papers in international
journals, books and conference proceedings. 10 tutorials and several invited
talks have been given at international conferences. He is in the program
committee of more than ten different international conferences, associate editor
of three international scientific journals as well as a regular reviewer of a
number of other international journals. He has also acted as an evaluator for proposals
in EU FP7 and Horizon2020. He is a member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and a senior member of IEEE.
A list and collection of publications can be found
here:
http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/jimtoer/index.html (newest)
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jimtoer/papers.html
(older publications)