Curriculum Vitae

John Markus Bjørndalen

Education

Employment History

Publications

Publications registered in Cristin (may not be up to date).

Teaching Experience

Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø:

Supervision of Students

Students graduated (advisor or co-advisor):

PhD students:

• Fei Su, "A distributed remote presence system masking the effects of delays in human-to-human remote interaction", 2019
• Giacomo Tartari, "A distributed remote presence system for latency critical human-to-human and human-to-computer interaction", 2016
• Bård Fjukstad, "Multi-Locality Based Local and Symbiotic Computing for Interactively fast On-Demand Weather Forecasting for Small Regions, Short Durations, and Very High-Resolutions", 2014
• Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, "Interactive Visualization on High-Resolution Tiled Display Walls with Network Accessible Compute- and Display-Resources", 2011.
• Yong Liu, "Principle and Practice of Distributing Low and High Resolution Display Content from One Computer to Many Computers in Stand-alone or Display Wall Configurations", 2011.
• Daniel Stødle, "Device-Free Interaction and Cross-Platform Pixel Based Output to Display Walls", 2009.

Master students:

• Stian Alexander Solli, "Design and Evaluation of Interference Handling Mechanisms in FlowLevel Simulators", 2025
• Ilya Taksis, "Evaluating the Feasibility of a Real-Time Fire Detection System on i.MX RT1064", 2025
• Jonathan L. Claudius, "A Go-like Concurrency model for Embedded RTOS using RIOT OS", 2024
• Andreas Berntsen Løvland, "Predicting the Destination Port of Fishing Vessels", 2024
• Øyvind Arne Moen Nohr, "Evaluating Continuous End-to-End Communication at Sea with Multi-Hop MANET Routing, Using AIS Data", 2024
• Jørgen Aleksander Larsen, "A Data Gathering System for the Arctic Tundra", 2024
• Mariel Evelyn Markussen Ellingsen, "First steps towards solving the café problem", 2022
• Mohammad Bordbarkhoo, "faPyCSP: In Pursuit of Fault-Tolerant CSP", 2022
• Øystein Knutsen, "Slicer - A practical framework for web-based CMV", 2021
• Sigurd Karlstad, "Clock Synchronization between Observational Units in the Arctic Tundra", 2021
• Erlend Melum Karlstrøm, "General Monitoring of Observational Units in the Arctic Tundra", 2021
• Marius Indreberg, "Particular: A Functional Approach to 3D Particle Simulation", 2021
• Hirotaka Sato, "A modular approach to units composing scientific observatories", 2021
• Truls Mathiassen, "Object detection at the edge - Image classification on a small embedded computer", 2020
• Jon Helge Langaas Johansen, uPyCSP - Two approaches to implementing CSP-like concurrency modeling in microcontrollers, 2020
• Øystein Tveito, Beneath the snow -- Developing a wireless sensor node for remote locations in the Arctic, 2020
• Martin Sommerseth Moe Carstens, DaoCron. Job Scheduler for Autonomous Observation Units in the Arctic Tundra, 2019
• Petter Kraabøl, ColdNotify: A Notification Service For A Distributed Arctic Observatory, 2019
• Simon Kristoffer Nilsen Fagerli, DMNI. Dynamic Mobile Network Infrastructure, 2018
• Emil Anders Jønsson, OUA: Observation Unit Autonomy, 2018
• Camilla Stormoen, Peer Observations of Observation Units", 2018
• Roberth Hansen, Metadata state and history service for datasets -- Enable extracting, storing and access to metadata about a dataset over time.", 2018
• Sigurd Thomassen, "Embedded Analytics of Animal Images", 2017
• Lukasz Sergiusz Michalik, "EC 3 Edge Command-Control-Communication System for Arctic Observatories", 2017
• Håvard Thom, "Unified Detection System for Automatic, Real-Time, Accurate Animal Detection in Camera Trap Images from the Arctic Tundra", 2017
• Håvard Mathisen, "A closer look at problems related to the next-gen Vulkan API", 2017
• Stian Sjøli, "A System for Inspection and Binary Classification of Brain MRI Images", 2016
• Johannes Larsen, "Useful GPGPU Programming Abstractions - A thorough analysis of GPGPU development frameworks", 2016
• Bjørn Ludvik Langaas Johansen, "HiPerWA: High Performance Wireless Analytics", 2016
• Magnus Wikstad, "AutoMon - Automatic monitoring and problem detection for distributed systems", 2016
• Jason Tang, "A framework for building scalable web applications for high-resolution cluster-based display walls", 2016
• Kenneth Knudsen, "Freia: Exploring Biological Pathways Using Unity3D", 2015
• Einar Kristoffersen, "Giga-View: A distributed gigapixel image viewer controlled by mobile devices", 2015
• Simon Andreas Engstrøm Nistad, "Sphero NAV - A Robotic Navigation and Control Platform", 2014
• Alexander Svendsen, "RoboMind - A platform for on-the-fly programming and inspection of behaviour-based robot programs", 2014
• Tom Arne Pedersen, "RS-Seismic Processing and Web-Visualization", 2014
• Tor Kreutzer, "Harvest - A collaborative System for Distributed Retrieval of Social Data", Spring 2012.
• Gaute Martinsen, "Analysis Service for Temporal Social Data", Spring 2012.
• Andreas Svendby, "Evaluation of shared tuple spaces as communication model for semi-autonomous robots in mobile environment", Spring 2012.
• Ørjan Pettersen, "A configuration tool for process oriented UAV programming", Spring 2010.
• Joakim Simonsson, "Inexpensive Head Tracking for use with Large High-Resolution Displays", Spring 2010.
• Børge Lanes, "Image and video processing using graphics hardware", Spring 2010.
• Bård Fjukstad, "Super Sensor Network", spring 2008
• Bjørn-Hugo Nilsen, "Utilizing Ubiquitous Commodity Graphics Hardware for Scientific Computing", autumn 2007
• Ståle W. Nilsen, "MultiCam -- Et flerkamerasystem for videokonferanse på visningsvegg", autumn 2007
• Thomas Heggelund, "A system for debugging and state monitoring of cluster applications", autumn 2007
• Thomas Samuelsen, "Distributed OpenSceneGraph", spring 2007
• Tor Magne Stien Hagen, "The PATHS Visualizer", spring 2006
• Åsmund Grammeltvedt, "Frag: A Distributed Approach to Display Wall Gaming", spring 2006
• Marte Skadsem, "A Distributed and Parallel Robot Environment for Competitive Search and Rescue using a Display Wall for Visualization", spring 2006
• Svein Helge Haugen, "Coordinated Distributed Robot Swarm", spring 2006
• Astri-Helen Hansen, "A Distributed and Monitoring Infrastructure for Distributed Mobile Robots (DiMoRo)", spring 2005
• Kenneth Pettersen, "Spatial Coordination of Sound and Window Location on Display Walls", spring 2005
• Espen Johnsen, "Configuration of collective operations in LAM/MPI by use of scripting", spring 2005
• Daniel Stødle, "User Interface Components to Support Simple and Efficient Use and Control of Large, High-Resolution Displays", spring 2005
• Lars Ailo Bongo, "EventScope: Configurable on-line Monitoring of Parallel and Distributed Applications", autumn 2002

Large term / capstone projects:

• Andreas Berntsen Løvland, "Detecting Shooting Results in Biathlon using Computer Vision", 2023
• Øyvind Arne Moen Nohr, "Characterizing Boat-to-Boat Communication in The Norwegian Economical Sector Using The Ocean Communication Network", 2023
• Jørgen Aleksander Larsen, "Distributing Sensor Data With The Publish-Subscribe Pattern", 2023
• Joachim Thomassen, "Usability of eventually consistent data storage based on CRDTs for a Search and Rescue application", 2022
• Marius Jørgensen, "Distributed Modular Sensor Architecture for Use in The Arctic Tundra -- An autonomous sensor node architecture using the actor model", 2022
• Mariel Evelyn Markussen Ellingsen, "Hearing Aid Project", 2021
• Marius Indreberg, "MeshNet: A high-performance p2p network for multiplayer games", 2020
• Jon Helge Langaas Johansen, "uaPyCSP - Concurrency for embedded devices", 2019
• Martin Sommerseth Moe Carstens, "The Arctic Observatory Mobile Reaper Observation Unit", 2018
• Sverre Coucheron, "Arctic Virtual Radar (AVR): The Distributed Arctic Observatory Virtual Radar", 2018
• Simon K. N. Fagerli, "TundraNet - Creating mesh network of power efficient devices on the arctic tundra", 2017
• Emil Jønsson, "OUM: Observation Unit Monitoring", 2017
• Camilla Stormoen, "From Physical to Virtual Sensors (PVS)", 2017
• Jørgen Aarmo Lund, "Visualizing Big Data with tiled display walls", Bachelor's Project, 2017
• Nichlas Ferdinand Nielsen, "A gigapixel microscope", Bachelor's Project, 2017
• Håvard Thom, "Automatic Rodent Identification in Camera Trap Images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks", 2016
• Lukasz Sergiusz Michalik, "Infrastructure for writing distributed games and simulations using game engines on a display wall", 2016
• Jason Tang, "Energy-aware Communication for Large-scale Heterogenous Programming Systems", 2016
• Bjørn Ludvig Langaas Johansen, "HiPerWA: High Performance Wireless Analytics", 2015
• Bjørn Ludvig Langaas Johansen, "A pub-sub like event management system for a display wall infrastructure", 2015
• Johannes Larsen, "Cloud Based Surround Sound System", 2015
• Tommy Oines, "Investigating Field Programmable Gate Array Technology for High Performance Computing and Big Data Analytics", 2015
• Adrian Skog østgård, "NAD+, improving the performance of the NAD system", 2014
• øystein Langseth, "NAD#, Many-to-Many exchange of desktop content data streams between a group of computers", 2014
• Jørn Vollan Lomax, "Creating interactive games for children on mobile platforms", 2014
• Einar Kristoffersen, "Concurrency in a Distributed Gigapixel Image Viewer", 2014
• Kenneth Knudsen, "Amdex: Automated meta-data extraction from KEGG pathways", 2014.
• Simon Andreas Engstrøm Nistad, "Crowd and Devices - The Light Stick Project", 2013.
• Alexander Svendsen, "WallMan - Multi-player game for display walls", Autumn, 2013.
• Roger Bruun Asp Hansen, "Investigating conditional branching and memory management on CUDA", Autumn 2011.
• Kim-Edgar Sørensen, "Evaluating Parallel Algorithms on Graphics Processors using CUDA", Autumn 2011.
• Simon Andreas Frimann Lund, "jsVNC - A Case Study of Engineering Cloud-Based Network Applications", spring 2010.
• Joakim Simonsson, "GPU-based microsimulation of vehicles in a driving simulator", autumn 2009
• Cedric Noel, "Multi-user virtual robot competition on display walls", spring 2009
• Harald Hanssen, "Multi-page PDF viewer: Applied viewer for a display wall", spring 2007
• Ståle W. Nilsen, "Mandelbrot-based tool for demonstration of parallel and distributed computations", spring 2007
• Oleg Jakobsen, "Distributed simulations with locality aware objects in a display-wall environment", Large term project, autumn 2006
• Tom Arild Jakobsen, "Virtual Robot competition on the Display Wall", autumn 2006
• Webjørn Larsen, "TileSnakes: Display wall control and collaboration using mobile phones", autumn 2006
• Bjørn-Hugo Nilsen, "Gesture Interface for a Large High-Resolution Display", autumn 2006
• Bård Fjukstad, "Weather Forecasting and Visualization using a Display Wall", Large term project, spring 2006
• Silje Alfheim, "Information Dissemination in a Distributed Robot Radar", Large term project, autumn 2005
• Åsmund Grammeltvedt, "WallSpring - Collaborative Tactical Gaming on a Display Wall", Large term project, autumn 2005
• Bjørnstein Lilleby, "Large Show - customizing and visualizing presentations on large displays", Large term project, autumn 2005
• Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, "Visualization of a Tuple-Based Shared Memory System", Large term project, autumn 2005
• Tor Erik Sønvisen, "DMaze - A distributed multiplayer online game", Large term project, autumn 2005
• Marte Skadsem, "Robotmoderskip (RoMo)", Large term project, spring 2005
• Daniel Stødle, "Collaborative Sharing of Windows between MacOS X, the X Windows System and Windows", Large term project, spring 2004
• Lars Ailo Bongo, "Steps - A Performance Monitoring and Visualization Tool for Multi-cluster Parallel Programs", Large term project, spring 2002

Research grants

• Havnær, 2024 (TODO: update)
• "Transforming CO2 to capital by interdisciplinary CCU optimization strategies (iCCU)". Inter-disciplinary research project. 4 PhD positions. 2017.
• "Distributed Arctic Observatory (DAO): A Cyber-Physical System for Ubiquitous Data and Services Covering the Arctic Tundra". RCN IKT+ phase 2 funding. 3 PhD + 1 Post Doc. 2017-12-21.
• Distributed Arctic Observatory. RCN IKT+ phase 1 funding. 2017.
• Internal funding, 1 PhD position.
• "COAT Tools - Methodological advancement of Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra". Inter-disciplinary research project. 4 PhD positions. 2016.
• Faculty of Science and Technology, Stipend for EU proposal development. 2016/2017
• Norwegian Science Foundation, INREMO (Interactive Representations & Models, https://www.inremo.no/), member of the original VERDIKT resource network proposal. 2011, lead by Anders Kluge.
• Tromsø Forskningsstiftelse, Infrawall: National infrastructure for collaborative and interactive use of wall-sized high resolution displays . 1M NOK for upgrade and updating of the current wall. February 2010. With Otto Anshus, Tore Larsen, Daniel Stødle.
• Norwegian Science Foundation, Verdione. The CS/Tromsø part of the project started 2009/2010, with O.J. Anshus and Tore Larsen.
• Sabbatical stipend for stay at Computing Laboratories, University at Kent at Canterbury, UK. 2007-10 to 2008-07.
• Norwegian Science Foundation, SHARE, 2004-2006, with Otto Anshus and Tore Larsen.
• Norwegian Science Foundation, Display Wall, 2004-2006, with Otto Anshus and Tore Larsen.
• Hewlett Packard, Grant, Distributed and Parallel Robot System, with Otto Anshus.