Erlend Aune
Senior Principal AI Scientist at Cognite
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolErlend Aune is a Senior Principal AI Scientist and multidisciplinary technology leader based in Oslo with 13 years of experience at the intersection of product, research, and engineering. He combines academic depth—a PhD in Statistics and ongoing associate professorships—with hands-on startup and industry leadership, from CTO and co-founder roles to directing data science teams. His recent focus is on time series foundation models and data-efficient learning for irregular and low-data settings, applied across finance, IoT, audio, and industrial domains. Erlend co-founded AI-driven ventures (mixup.food, HANCE) while maintaining strong industry–academia ties through NTNU and the Norwegian Open AI Lab, which lets him rapidly translate research into product-grade systems. Colleagues know him for turning hard statistical problems into deployable ML solutions and for bridging long-term research with pragmatic engineering.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at NTNU
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (182)
python10
feature-extraction10
attention-mechanism10
data-manipulation10
fasttext10
deep-learning10
gpu10
pip10
gpu-acceleration10
glove10
python-development10
word2vec10
corpus10
dataframes10
pandas10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Froskekongen/nortok
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Froskekongen/MA8701
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:65 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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