Kai Ellefsen
Associate Professor
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolKai Ellefsen is an Associate Professor and AI researcher based in Oslo with nine years of post-degree experience specializing in biologically inspired artificial intelligence, robotics, self-organizing systems, and evolutionary machine learning. He holds a PhD from NTNU where he developed agents that learn from the environment via evolutionary algorithms and spent a formative research period at Jeff Clune’s EvolvingAI lab. Kai has applied his research to real-world robotics, notably developing planning systems for an autonomous underwater inspection vehicle at the Brazilian Institute of Robotics and continuing related work at the University of Oslo. He also brings sustained teaching experience in AI, computer vision, and introductory CS, mentoring students while publishing experimental work at the intersection of evolution and learning. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who blends theoretical rigor with hands-on robotic systems engineering, often favoring bio-inspired methods to tackle dynamic, real-world planning problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian, Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
serve10
unity3d10
deep-reinforcement-learning9
reinforcement-learning9
simulations9
intelligent9
ml-agents9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
imitation-learning7
trend7
music2
interaction2
mixture2
neuroevolution1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kaiolae/WorldModels
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 release, 60 commits, 3 pushes in 5 months
kaiolae/wcci2018_prediction_tutorial
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 28 pushes in 1 day
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