Summary
Gylfi Guðmundsson is an Assistant Professor and researcher with a PhD in Information Technology and over a decade of experience in content-based image retrieval and distributed systems. He helped build CADIA-Player, a three-time General Game Playing champion, and scaled CBIR systems at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab to index and search tens of millions of images and billions of high-dimensional features. At Reykjavik University he teaches computer architecture, operating systems, databases and big data management while supervising undergraduate and master's projects. His work bridges hands-on systems engineering and academic research, with particular strength in adapting large-scale retrieval algorithms to Spark and other distributed environments. Colleagues describe him as drawn to “impossible things,” reflecting a taste for tackling problems at the limits of scale and theory.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Technology, Full honors, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Technology, Full honors at Université de Rennes I
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Reykjavik University
English, Icelandic, Swedish, German