Johannes Bjerva
Full Professor at Innovation Fund Denmark
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJohannes Bjerva is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University Copenhagen with 13 years of experience bridging computational linguistics and machine learning. He progressed from PhD research in NLP to academic leadership roles—now Head of Section and member of Innovation Fund Denmark’s Industrial Researcher Committee—combining deep research with institutional strategy. His background spans postdoctoral work at DIKU, a strong publication and project record (see bjerva.github.io), and hands-on software engineering early in his career, giving him both theoretical depth and practical implementation skills. Known for mentoring teams and leading funded interdisciplinary projects, he brings a knack for translating linguistic theory into scalable ML solutions and fostering industry-academia collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing at University of GroningenSummer school Machine Learning, Summer school Machine Learning at LxMLS 2015Master of Arts - MA Computational Linguistics, Master of Arts - MA Computational Linguistics at Stockholm University
English, Norwegian, Dutch, Japanese, Finnish, Swedish, swedish sign language, Danish
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Github Skills (19)
stat10
phonetics8
computational-linguistics8
acl8
natural-language-processing7
nlp7
nltk6
data-mining6
matrix6
ngram6
python6
prediction5
deep-learning2
machine-learning1
bidirectional1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bjerva/semeval-relatedness
Feb 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
bjerva/tsp-lexikon-android
Dec 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:58 commits in 1 month
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