Welcome to my website

My name is Sverrir Sigmundarson and I'm 29 years old. I'm currently working as associate lecturer and research assistant at Reykjavik University. I hold a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Reykjavik University. The most of my graduate studies and the final topic of my masters thesis was focused on a sub field of Artificial Intelligence called single-agent heuristic search and planning with real-time constraints.

You might ask how heuristic search could be in any way relevant to our real-world problems. You are not wrong to ask, since I only recently really discovered its applications to every-day problems. To name a few I've successfully applied them to: optimal path finding, sequence alignment of DNA/base-pair strings, packaging algorithm for fresh-fish fillets and robot navigation in unknown environments. This short list is in no way an exhaustive listing of possible application areas. I know of numerous projects I worked on prior to my graduate studies that would have been prime candidates for heuristic search algorithms, e.g. an adaptive insurance advisor and fraud detection in textual data. So AI is both fun and practical. :D

For more information about me and my work see the links in the menu bar at the top of each page (yup, the light green one). All my contact information (both information about my digital identity as the normal one) is available in the space below the main menu bar.

The basics

• Resume in PDF format [á íslensku] [in English]
• vCard business card
  

Do you want to know more?

• More information about me can be found on the About me page.
• A complete but reverse chronological story of my education, see education.
• For a small insight into my interests (both computer related and unrelated), go to interests.
• For a list of my computer related skills, check out skills.
• For a (near) complete list of my previous experience, jump to experience.
• A small sample of the software I've written in my "spare" time or for various projects, check out projects.
• ... and for those exceptionally brave.. a small sample of my writing skill can be found under publications