Per Kummervold
Senior Advisor And Project Leader at FISABIO
Tromsø, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
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Top SchoolPer Kummervold is a Norwegian researcher and senior advisor who blends nine years of applied AI and long-term telemedicine expertise, holding a PhD in Telemedicine and eHealth. He leads development of Norway’s first transformer-based language model at the National Library’s AI Lab while contributing to EU and UK-funded projects on vaccine sentiment analysis. His work spans both qualitative and quantitative methods, with a focus on language adaptation in large language models and practical deployment for public health insights. Per has an atypical mix of clinical-facing telemedicine project leadership and cutting-edge NLP research, enabling translation of complex social-data signals into actionable findings. Based in Tromsø, he collaborates internationally (FISABIO, LSHTM) and applies transformer techniques to large text corpora to surface nuanced online behaviors.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Telemedicine and e-health, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Telemedicine and e-health at University of Tromsø
Github Skills (149)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
automatic-speech-recognition10
datasets10
deep-learning10
speech10
twitter10
whisper10
timestamps10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
natural-language-understanding10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
digitalepidemiologylab/multi-lang-vaccine-sentiment
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:187 pushes in 1 month
digitalepidemiologylab/covid-twitter-bert
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Pretrained BERT model for analysing COVID-19 Twitter data
Contributions:147 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
nlpbert-modeltwitter-sentiment-analysisberttwitter-data
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