Ólavur Mortensen Email & Phone Number

Tønsberg, Vestfold Og Telemark, No

Horten, Vestfold Og Telemark, Norway

At Kongsberg I was a part of the team that develops the inertial navigation system on the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) called Hugin. This involves writing C++ code for both the real-time navigation system as well as the post-processing tools. Projects included improving navigation robustness in worst-case scenario situations, integrating new sensors, and developing new sensor calibration tools.

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

In September 2021, I received a new title that is more fitting to my role at FarGen. During these past years I have had full responsibility of processing the sequencing data coming out of FarGen's lab. I have also been the primus motor in developing our own HPC environment, the FarGen Cluster.

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Continuing my work at the Genetic Biobank, I started my PhD studies in October 2018. In October of 2021 I decided to discontinue my PhD studies. During this time I took 26 ECTS worth of PhD courses. I also taught a PhD course in statistics in R, where I created the whole course from scratch (https://olavurmortensen.github.io/r-for-statistics/). I practiced my duty to communicate science to both laymen and professionals, both abroad and at home.

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

At the Genetic Biobank, my primary responsibility was to analyze next-generation sequencing data from the FarGen project.I compared data quality from two DNA extraction methods, from whole-blood and dry-blood spots. This resulted in a scientific paper, of which I am first author of, that was published in the European Journal of Human Genetics in February of 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-019-0343-3).Bringing experience with programming, statistics, and data analysis to the… Show more At the Genetic Biobank, my primary responsibility was to analyze next-generation sequencing data from the FarGen project.I compared data quality from two DNA extraction methods, from whole-blood and dry-blood spots. This resulted in a scientific paper, of which I am first author of, that was published in the European Journal of Human Genetics in February of 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-019-0343-3).Bringing experience with programming, statistics, and data analysis to the table, I was able to make good use of the biobank’s genealogy registry. Genealogical data is valuable in genetics, but lacking the right expertise this resource had not been fully utilized.My knowledge about high-performance computing was useful when we received some funding for a medium-scale computing cluster. I was able to advise what kind of hardware provided the relevant computational resources, and how the software infrastructure should be set up to best suit our needs. Show less

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At RaRe Technologies, I worked with an open source project called Gensim.The tasks, given to me by the CEO and my supervisor, were to implement new features and write tutorials and documentation. Open source development at RaRe Technologies was an excellent learning experience as it required thorough documentation and rigorous testing, and constant online communication with an international open source community.My master’s thesis was also conducted in cooperation with RaRe… Show more At RaRe Technologies, I worked with an open source project called Gensim.The tasks, given to me by the CEO and my supervisor, were to implement new features and write tutorials and documentation. Open source development at RaRe Technologies was an excellent learning experience as it required thorough documentation and rigorous testing, and constant online communication with an international open source community.My master’s thesis was also conducted in cooperation with RaRe, where I developed a novel algorithm for large-scale inference in a model called the author-topic model. This was an interdisciplinary project, focusing on the theory of inference as well as scalability and user-friendliness. I wrote a tutorial for the software that was well received by the community. Show less

I worked on a project for FractureCode Corporation with another student. Together, we explored the possibilities of using big data technologies (Apache Spark) to analyze the large amounts of data that their customers produce.

I assisted in the group work sessions in two terms of a course, teaching first year engineering students introductory programming in MatLab. I also graded reports in this course, which served as the students’ exams.

Master Of Science In Engineering (Cand.Polyt.), Mathematical Modelling And Computation

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering, Mathematics And Technology

High School