Helga Ingimundardóttir
Teaching Academy Member at Háskóli Íslands
Iceland
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Top SchoolHelga Ingimundardóttir is a computational engineer and mathematics-trained educator with 11 years of experience applying machine learning, operations research, and data engineering across academia and industry. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Iceland and member of the national Teaching Academy, she blends research-driven, project-based teaching with practical tooling like GitHub and SQL to prepare students for real-world data problems. Her applied work spans healthcare scheduling optimization, large-scale genomics pipelines handling petabytes of data, and production recommendation systems and optimization for gaming and travel platforms. She also advises national technology funding and contributes to AI strategy in Icelandic quality management, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on technical delivery and policy-level engagement. Outside work she balances analytical rigor with creative pursuits—knitting, sewing and internet cats—bringing a practical, human-centred perspective to technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus, Wavelet transforms, Fouling, Erasmus, Wavelet transforms, Fouling at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-FranceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Engineering at Háskóli ÍslandsGraduate Diploma, Teaching studies for higher education, Graduate Diploma, Teaching studies for higher education at University of IcelandBaccalaureate, Mathematics, Baccalaureate, Mathematics at Verzlunarskóli Íslands
French, English, Icelandic, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
genome-assembly10
embroidery9
intelligent9
composite9
inkscape9
fasta8
blast8
bioinformatics8
stitch8
htslib7
science7
fastq-format6
sequence6
conditional-statements6
ssa6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HI-IDN/IDeLM-Glulam
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Intelligent Decision Models: Glulam Optimization
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 97 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ALICE-InRu/Thesis
Sep 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:620 commits, 3 PRs, 268 pushes in 1 year 10 months
phd-thesisadaptivemachine-learningengineeringthesis
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