Christian Walter Peter Omlin

Christian Walter Peter Omlin is a Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder. He holds an honorary position at the University of South Africa and has held academic roles across institutions in South Africa, Cyprus, and Fiji. His expertise spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ethical AI. Omlin’s research emphasizes explainable AI, reinforcement learning, and applications in Industry 4.0, healthcare, and particle physics monitoring. He leads projects like the Telkom/Cisco Center for IP Computing and has contributed to virtue ethics in AI agent design.

Education: PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1995), M.Eng from ETH Zurich (1987).

Research Highlights:

• Developed affinity-based reinforcement learning (ab-RL) for interpretable AI agents.
• Advanced data quality monitoring (DQM) for CERN’s CMS detector using time-aware deep learning.
• Explored virtue ethics in AI through role-playing agents and ethical dilemma modeling.

Teaching: Courses include Principles of AI, Algorithms, Urban Computing, and Digital Health.

Grants/Advising: Led the Telkom/Cisco Center and the South African Innovation Fund’s “HearSEE” consortium. Supervised theses at multiple universities.

Labs/Teams: Involved in CERN’s HCAL detector anomaly detection and dental radiology AI applications.