Work experience

Azazo - Senior Software Developer

December 2013-Present

  • Mainly working on a project to import data from other systems into CoreData
  • Project written in Java and interacting with systems based on IBM Notes and SQL servers
  • Azazo

Independent contractor

January 2012 - Present

  • Working on business intelligence and programming.
  • Mainly been working on BI projects in QlikView and programming in C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity framework, Javascript, JQuery

Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools Instructor (voluntary work)

2010 - 2011

Reykjavik University, Research assistant

2009

  • Project: Casual Game Development using General Game Playing Technology
  • Supervisor: Yngvi Björnsson

Publicity job for Reykjavik University

2008 - 2009

  • (Kynningarteymi)
  • Going to schools and talking about Reykjavik University and working on promotion events (voluntary work)

Reykjavik University, Research assistant

2008

  • Project: Working on a method to display games in general game playing match
  • Supervisor: Yngvi Björnsson

Education

PhD in Applied Sciences at Reykjavik University

2010 - ? (On hold)

  • Thesis title: Algorithms and software for the detection of complex genetic variants
  • Supervisor: Bjarni V. Halldórsson

MSc in Informatics at The University of Edinburgh

2009 - 2010

  • Specialist Area: Bioinformatics, Systems & Synthetic Biology
  • Thesis: Genomic Clustering of Gene Expression Data

BSc in Computer Science at Reykjavik University, Iceland

2006-2009

  • Final project: Combinatorial Pedigree Inference from Genomic Data
  • (Research project) partly done in University of Oxford

Teaching

All course at Reykjavik University

Fall 2013

  • Theory of Computation (T-719-STO4 / T-519-STOR)
    • Tutorials and grading student assignments
  • Bioinformatics (T-539-LIFU)
    • Part of lectures and tutorials. Grading student projects Introduce basic bioinformatics problems and algorithms used to solve them

Fall 2012

  • Theory of Computation (T-719-STO4 / T-519-STOR)
    • Tutorials and grading student assignments

Fall 2011

  • Biostatistics (T-624-LIFT)

Spring 2011

  • Bioinformatics (T-539-LIFU)
    • Part of lectures and tutorials. Grading student projects Introduce basic bioinformatics problems and algorithms used to solve them

Grants

2010

  • The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund (Rannís - The Icelandic Centre for Research) Project:Algorithms and software for the detection of complex genetic variants Supervisor: Bjarni V. Halldórsson (6.095.000 ISK)

2009

  • Námssjóður Sameinaðra verktaka við Háskólann í Reykjavík(150.000 ISK)
  • The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund (Rannís - The Icelandic Centre for Research) Project: Casual Game Development using General Game Playing TechnologySupervisor: Yngvi Björnsson (280.000 ISK)

2008

  • University of Oxford, Department of statistics, summer vacation scholarship. Funding to work on the project Combinatorial Pedigree Inference from Genomic Data in Oxford for 6 weeks. (€1750)

Awards

2009

  • Iceland chamber of commerce award for best educational performance of undergraduate students in the School of Computer Science in Reykjavik University.

2008

  • Deans List School of Computer Science for outstanding academic achievement during the 2008 fall semester (free school fees worth 137.000 ISK)
  • Deans List School of Computer Science for outstanding academic achievement during the 2008 spring semester (free school fees worth 137.000 ISK)

2007

  • Deans List School of Computer Science for outstanding academic achievement during the 2007 fall semester (free school fees worth 128.000 ISK)
  • Deans List School of Computer Science for outstanding academic achievement during the 2007 spring semester (free school fees worth 128.000 ISK)

2006

  • Deans List School of Science and Engineering for outstanding academic achievement during the 2006 fall semester (free school fees worth 110.000 ISK)