Focus Period Halmstad University 2026
Full Professor
University of Oslo (Norway)
Jim Tørresen is a professor at the University of Oslo, at the Robotics and Intelligent Systems research group. He is also a PI at the interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (RITMO). He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in computer architecture and design from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Trondheim in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He has been employed as a senior hardware designer at NERA Telecommunications (1996–1998) and at Navia Aviation (1998–1999). Since 1999, he has been a professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo (associate professor 1999–2005). He has been a visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Japan for one year (1993–1994), four months at Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan (1997 and 2000) and a visiting professor at Cornell University, USA for one year (2010–2011). In the academic year 2025–2026, he was a visiting professor at Kyoto University.
Jim Tørresen’s research interests include artificial intelligence, ethical aspects of AI and robotics, machine learning, robotics, and applying this to complex real-world applications. Several novel methods have been proposed. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. He has given more than 50 invited talks/keynotes at international conferences and institutions and 21 tutorials at international conferences during the last 10 years. He is in the program committee of more than ten different international conferences, associate editor of three international scientific journals as well as a regular reviewer of a number of other international journals. He has also acted as an evaluator for proposals in EU FP7 and Horizon2020 and is currently project manager/principal investigator in three externally funded research projects/centers. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT), where he is a member of a working group on research ethics for AI.
More information and a list of publications can be found here: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jimtoer