Address:
University of Tromsø –
The Arctic University of Norway e-mail: dag@cs.uit.no
Faculty of Sciences Phone : +47 77 64 40 47 (mob: +47 945 25062)
Department of Computer Science Fax : +47 77 64 45 80
Breivika URL : http://www.cs.uit.no/~dag/
N-9037 Tromsø
NORWAY
Dag Johansen is a professor in the
Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Norway. Currently, he is
on sabbatical leave at Cornell University
(July 2014 – July 2015).
His research interest is distributed
computer systems, currently focusing on building and experimenting with
large-scale information access systems. In 1987, he co-founded the StormCast project, which constructed and deployed wide-area
distributed sensor network systems in the Arctic for weather and pollution
monitoring. StormCast was one of the pioneering
distributed sensor networks, if not the first computer science one, with a
version present on the Internet since February
1993.
Johansen was one of the chief
architects on one of the first academic mobile agent system projects, the TACOMA (Tromsø And COrnell
Moving Agents)
project. He co-founded this project during his first sabbatical year at Cornell
University in 1993-1994. He was also visiting professor at Cornell in 1998-1999
and 2009-2010.
Johansen was also one of the chief
architects on the Norwegian-US (University of Tromsø, Cornell University, and
UC San Diego) WAIF project from 2002-2007. This project
investigated structuring techniques for future-generation extreme-scale
distributed applications.
Johansen has been deeply involved in
the iAD project, a Norwegian Research Council supported Centre
for Research-based Innovation (SFI, 2007 – 2014). His group
is in particular interested in next generation run-time systems for private
cloud computing environments (multi-core operating systems, virtualization
technologies, analytic run-times). For the moment, he is involved in
establishing Corpore
Sano, a research project at the intersection of medicine and big data
technology.
Johansen is an external expert on
two projects funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. He is on the Advisory Board of Harness run out of Imperial College,
UK, and he is on the External Expert Team Board of RETHINK.
In 1997, Johansen founded D.A.G.
Labs with Norwegian students and colleagues from Cornell University. In April
2000, this company merged with Fast Search & Transfer, and Johansen was
hired as part-time chief scientist, system architectures in the enterprise
search company the next 10 years. When Microsoft bought FAST in 2008, Johansen
continued in a similar advisory role for Microsoft (FAST). He is currently on
the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) of Microsoft Development Center Norway (MDCN).
Johansen is a co-founder of Tellus Software in Stavanger, Norway. In 2014, he also
co-founded ForzaSys
in Oslo, Norway, where he currently serves on the TAB.
Johansen received his MSc (the
actual thesis work was carried out at CWI, Amsterdam) and Doctor Sc degrees in Computer Science from the University of
Tromsø.
Johansen is an elected member of the
Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Johansen's personal governance page.