Anders Hjort

Anders Hjort is a Doctoral Research Fellow (now PhD graduate) at the University of Oslo's Department of Mathematics within the Statistics and Data Science group. He successfully defended his PhD dissertation in February 2025, focusing on uncertainty quantification in house price prediction using machine learning techniques. His work bridges academic research and industry applications through collaboration with Eiendomsverdi, a Norwegian property technology company.

His educational background includes a Master of Science in Industrial Mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim (2019), complemented by one academic year at Technische Universität Berlin. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a consultant for Deloitte.

Hjort's research centers on tree-based machine learning methods, conformal prediction, and computational statistics for real estate valuation. He specializes in developing interpretable models that quantify prediction uncertainty, particularly for automated valuation systems in housing markets. His approach combines statistical rigor with practical machine learning applications to address challenges in property technology.

His publication record reveals a consistent trajectory in applying conformal prediction and interpretable AI to housing market analysis. The research spans theoretical uncertainty quantification frameworks to empirical studies of Norwegian and international markets, often utilizing locally weighted methods and ensemble tree models. This work demonstrates increasing sophistication in handling spatial heterogeneity and model confidence in real estate prediction.

Hjort has actively engaged with the academic community through conference presentations at COPA and WEAI events, participation in the Machine Learning Summer School near Cape Town, and a visiting researcher position at North Carolina State University's Statistics Department in fall 2023. His PhD project (2021-2024) was supervised by Associate Professors Johan Pensar and Ida Scheel, and Professor Dag Einar Sommervoll from NMBU.