Gylfi Gudmundsson
Assistant Professor at Reykjavik University
Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolGylfi Guðmundsson is an Assistant Professor and researcher with a PhD in Information Technology and over a decade of experience in content-based image retrieval and distributed systems. He helped build CADIA-Player, a three-time General Game Playing champion, and scaled CBIR systems at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab to index and search tens of millions of images and billions of high-dimensional features. At Reykjavik University he teaches computer architecture, operating systems, databases and big data management while supervising undergraduate and master's projects. His work bridges hands-on systems engineering and academic research, with particular strength in adapting large-scale retrieval algorithms to Spark and other distributed environments. Colleagues describe him as drawn to “impossible things,” reflecting a taste for tackling problems at the limits of scale and theory.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Technology, Full honors, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Technology, Full honors at Université de Rennes IMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Reykjavik University
English, Icelandic, Swedish, German
Github Skills (5)
cbir9
large-image9
collections8
throughput8
image-processing7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
elgerpus/DeCP
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
DeCP: A high-throughput CBIR system for very large image collections
Contributions:58 commits, 26 pushes in 6 months
cbirimage-processinghigh-throughputlarge-imagethroughput
elgerpus/DeCP-Live
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 11 pushes in 9 months
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