Kai Olav Ellefsen

Kai Olav Ellefsen received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. During his Ph.D. studies, he was also a Visiting Researcher with the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA, for six months, in 2013. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Brazilian Institute of Robotics, Salvador, Brazil, from 2014 to 2016; and a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, from 2016 to 2019. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. His research interests include many topics in the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and robotics, including evolutionary robotics, reinforcement learning, and brain-inspired learning mechanisms.