AI Research at Infomedia

The holistic approach to AI research underscores the department's commitment to advancing technology in a responsible and socially beneficial manner, contributing to a more informed and ethically grounded AI landscape. The department is home to several experts, who are willing to contribute with their comptenence, experience and network to news media, research projects, committees and conferences.

• Marija Slavkovic, professor and head of department
  • Topics: Artificial intelligence in general, machine ethics, logic
• Thomas Ågotnes, professor
  • Topics: Artificial intellicence in general, logic, knowledge representation, multiagent systems
• Samia Touileb, researcher
  • Topics: Natural language processing, artificial intelligence in general, ChatGPT, automatized text anaysis
• Christoph Trattner, professor and director of MediaFutures
  • Topics: Artificial intelligence in general, data science, social networks
• Barbara Wasson, professor og direktør ved SLATE
  • Topics: Artificial intelligence in education, learning analysis, technology enhanced learning
• Bjørnar Tessem, professor
  • Algorithms for AI, machine learning, the history of AI
• Lars Nyre, professor
  • Topics: The technological and cultural history behind AI, philosophical theories about the relationship between man and machine, design and innovation related to emerging technologies
• Erik Knudsen, researcher
  • AI's influence on political fragmentation, news recommender systems, responsible AI
• Mehdi Elahi, Assoc. Prof
  • Topics: Data science, recommender systems
• Duc Tien Dang Nguyen, førsteamanuensis
  • Tema: Multimedia forensics and verification, personal data analytics
• Mehdi Elahi, førsteamanuensis
  • Tema: Data science, recommender systems
• Guohui Xiao, førsteamaniensis
  • Tema: Knowledge graphs, semantic technology, ontology
• Andreas Lothe Opdahl, professor
  • Knowledge graphs, ontology, natural language processing

The department's interdisciplinary expertise makes us a sought-after participant in research projects revolving AI. We are coordinating and participating in several AI related projects and research centres. Here is a selection of them:

• SFI MediaFutures (Coordinated by Infomedia, funded by RCN and industry partners)
• NEWSREC (Coordinated by Infomedia, funded by RCN)
• Better Video Workflows (Coordinated by Vizrt, funded by RCN)
• SFF Center for Digital Narrative (Coordinated by Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, funded by RCN)
• SLATE: Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (located at the Faculty of Psychology)
• Algorithmic Foundations of Trustworthy AI (Coordinated by Department Informatics, funded by Trond Mohn Foundation)

The holistic approach to AI research underscores the department's commitment to advancing technology in a responsible and socially beneficial manner, contributing to a more informed and ethically grounded AI landscape. Most of the department's research group work with AI and its implications in one way or another.

For a full overview of the research groups at the department, please consult Research groups