Amund Tveit

Current
  • Software Engineer at Google
Past
  • PostDoc at NTNU
  • Chairman at Abiody AS
  • Research Scientist at Fast Search & Transfer ASA
  • PhD Candidate at NTNU
  • Co-founder/CTO/Developer at Agentus AS
  • University Lecturer at NTNU
  • PhD Candidate at NTNU
  • IT Trainee at Storebrand ASA
  • IT Specialist at IBM Canada
Education
  • Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  • NTNU
  • Orkdal VGS
Connections
442 connections
Industry
Online Media
Websites

Amund Tveit’s Summary

My goal is to discover and solve important problems with information technology.

Entrepreneurial experience
- Co-founder of two IT companies (Agentus and Abiody)
- Created first version of EventSeer.net

Amund Tveit’s Specialties:

Blogging, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Mobile Commerce, Parallel Systems, Software Engineering and Software Patents


Amund Tveit’s Experience

  • Software Engineer

    Google

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOOG; Online Media industry)

    September 2005Present (3 years 2 months)

    Mobile News (incl. iPhone and iPod Touch)
    Cluster Software Infrastructure
    Cost Savings

  • PostDoc

    NTNU

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    February 2004August 2005 (1 year 7 months)

    Text mining, medical/health informatics, detection of illness pathways from free-text computerized medical records

  • Chairman

    Abiody AS

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

    September 2004August 2005 (1 year)

    Data Mining consulting company.

    note: the original idea in 2003 (before founding the company) was to do consulting and software services for "large-scale individual-based simulation to be used for scenario simulation in efficient decision support and research by policy advisors, strategists, politicians, analysts and researchers".

  • Research Scientist

    Fast Search & Transfer ASA

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; FAST; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2004April 2005 (1 year)

  • PhD Candidate

    NTNU

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    February 2002January 2004 (2 years)

  • Co-founder/CTO/Developer

    Agentus AS

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2000January 2003 (2 years 6 months)

    Developed browser-based predictive caching in cooperation with Mirror-Image Internet.

  • University Lecturer

    NTNU

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    August 2001January 2002 (6 months)

    Taught "Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents" for approximately 50 students.

  • PhD Candidate

    NTNU

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    September 1999July 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  • IT Trainee

    Storebrand ASA

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; STB; Insurance industry)

    January 1998June 1999 (1 year 6 months)

    Worked on:
    - Project lead for Storebrand Intranet
    - Data mining for cost savings
    - Developer for fund product forecasts and child insurance pricing
    - Developer for sales systems for business insurance
    - Took courses in project management, presentation techniques, knowledge management and insurance

  • IT Specialist

    IBM Canada

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 1996June 1997 (1 year 1 month)

    Consultant working on software development for large-scale solutions for the telecom industry in Canada:
    - introduction of 1-888 tollfree number series for Stentor Alliance
    - call center solutions for Bell Canada


Amund Tveit’s Education

  • Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

    PhD, Computer Science, 19992004

    publications at http://amundtveit.info/publications/

  • NTNU

    MSc, Computer Science, September 1992December 1997

  • Orkdal VGS


Additional Information

Amund Tveit’s Websites:

Amund Tveit’s Interests:

blogging, refurnishing, innovation, games, outdoors and skiing.

Amund Tveit’s Groups:

Abakus, Omega, NTNU Alumni, Start Alumni, ACM and IEEE, NVG

  •    Cloud Computing
  •    Googlers & Xooglers
  •    High Performance & Super Computing

Amund Tveit’s Honors:

Venture Cup Price, 2000
IBM Appreciation Award, 1996


Amund Tveit’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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