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Dr. HelgaIngimundardóttir

I apply AI and optimisation to real-world industrial problems — and teach engineering students to do the same.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Iceland. I joined the IDeLM project as a postdoctoral researcher in 2023 before taking up my current assistant professorship. My research sits at the intersection of machine learning and optimisation: how to learn good decision rules from data instead of hand-crafting them. Before academia I spent a decade in industry — deCODE genetics, CCP Games (now Fenris Creations), Travelshift, AGR Dynamics and Valka — and that experience shapes how I teach: real data, real stakeholders, real uncertainty.

Helga Ingimundardóttir
Mynd: © Tryggvi Már Gunnarsson

RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN

  • Nature Genetics
  • Genome Biology
  • Journal of Scheduling
  • Heat Transfer Engineering
  • Springer LNCS

SPECIALITY

  • Heuristics
  • Hyperheuristics
  • Matheuristics
  • Optimization
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Data science
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Business intelligence
  • Computational intelligence
20+
YEARS IN ENGINEERING
25+
PUBLICATIONS
6 PB
SEQUENCING DATA PROCESSED
5
INDUSTRIES
4
LANGUAGES

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  • 2026

    Stjórnvísi strategy workshop 2026–31

    Stjórnvísi, Marel, Garðabær, 29 September 2026

  • 2026

    Synthetic Sagas: Imaginaries for AI Futures

    Saga, University of Iceland, September 2026

  • 2025

    HiDef Textiles at UTmessan

    Silfurberg, Harpa, 8 February 2025

  • 2025

    HiDef Textiles: Reviving Tradition with Innovation

    12th Reykjavík DataBeers, 25 January 2025