I'M

Thorgeir

Karlsson.

MSc Computer science enthusiast.

Hi, my name is Þorgeir Auðunn Karlsson.

I co-founded Radiant Games which produced a game that teaches children the fundamentals of coding through play. During my master’s studies I applied deep learning to predict epidemic outbreaks through cellphone metadata.

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I am a computer science enthusiast who enjoys teaching and practice water polo in my spare time. I aspire to work on challenging and intriguing projects which have a positive impact on the world.

Projects

Box Island is a fun logical puzzle game that teaches children the fundamentals of coding.

Unity extension that enables expression evaluation at runtime to facilitate testing and debugging.

The goal of this project is to improve the state of the art in epidemic surveillance. It uses passively collected cell phone metadata as a near real-time source of behavioral markers. This projects builds on a dataset which links individuals phone data with verified diagnosis data.

Experience

2018-Present

Starborne

Tech Lead

Lead the tech team behind Starborne an MMORTS 4X strategy game set in space.

2016-2018

MSc Computer Science

Reykjavik University
Honors: Alan Turing Scholarship

Independent study: Applied deep learning on predicting general game playing agents actions.

2012-Present

Teaching Assistant

Reykjavik University

Software Design and Implementation 2018

Programming Languages 2017

Object Oriented Programing in C++ 2017

Programming Languages 2015

Compilers 2014

Introduction to Machine Learning 2014

Databases 2014

Programming Languages 2014

Algorithms 2013

Web-Programming 2013

Programming 2012

2011-2014

BSc Computer Science

Reykjavik University
Honors: Dean's List & Freshman’s grant

My final project was to create a general-purpose roleplaying rule set that span many different roleplaying realms. I also took a 16 ECTS independent project to create an AI that could play any game that was built on this general ruleset.

2008-2011

Technical College of Reykjavík

Computer Study Programme
Graduated with first-class honors

2017-2018

Emory University

Research scholar

CDR Project: Applying deep learning to predict epidemic outbreaks through cellphone metadata.

Atlanta, GA

2015-Present

Box Island

Tech Lead & Co-Founder
The technical lead is responsible for all technical decisions and heads all programming efforts. Development of video games requires interdisciplinary work. As the technical lead, my work is focused on software development and integrating different fields into the game.

2014-Present

REX-Diagnostics

Unity Extension

I created a unity extension that enables expression evaluation at runtime to facilitate testing and debugging.

2011-2013

Íslandsbanki

Software Developer

Worked on maintaining and supporting existing internal platforms within the company. I worked for four months during the summer, May to August, and in December during the holiday.

CONTACT

Don't hesitate to send me a message. I would be glad to hear from you!