Jon Atle Gulla

Jon Atle Gulla is a Professor at NTNU and Director of the Norwegian Research Centre for AI Innovation (NorwAI). He holds academic leadership roles, including former Head of the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at NTNU. His expertise spans Semantics, Language Technology, Recommender Systems, and AI-driven innovation. He has nearly 150 international publications and advised over 100 students across MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral levels.

Education:

• MSc in Computer Science (1988), PhD in Computer Science (1993) from Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH)
• MSc in Linguistics (1995), University of Trondheim
• MSc in Management (Sloan fellowship, 2003), London Business School

Research interests focus on Semantics and Language Technology applied to Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, and Text Analysis. He explores AI-based innovations in digitalization and entrepreneurship, advising industry on AI adoption and commercialization. Notable projects include Big Data collaborations with DNB, RecTech for news recommendation, and Trondheim Analytica analyzing political texts/social media.

Publications emphasize AI applications in news recommendation, political text analysis, and Scandinavian language models. His work addresses ethical AI, copyright implications, and cross-lingual NLP challenges.

Awards: Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Arts and Sciences.

Advising/grants: Supervised 30 PhD students and 70 MSc students. Involved in startups like Fast Search & Transfer (acquired by Microsoft) and Mito.ai/Strise.ai. Active in reviewing for journals like Data & Knowledge Engineering and conferences like ACL.

Labs/teams: Leads NorwAI, co-founder of INRA and NOBIDS workshops. Collaborates with industry and academia on AI-driven solutions.