Hrafnkell Eiriksson
Curriculum vitae

Education:

• Technical University of Denmark
  Master of Science in Engineering, July 2001.
  Studied at the Informatics and Mathematical Modelling institute of Technical University of Denmark. I focused on image- and signal processing, numerical methods and algorithms. I wrote my masters thesis at the Image Analysis section under the supervision of Rasmus Larsen. The thesis was titled Shape Representation, Alignment and Representation. I received the grade 13 for my work, the highest possible grade on the Danish scale.
  
   
• University of Iceland
  C.S. degree in Computer and Electric Engineering (B.Sc. + one year) June 1999
  Graduation project: "Detection and classification of vessels on retinal fundus images." The project lead to a research grant and to the award for innovation in 1999 from the Icelandic president.
   
• Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð (Hamrahlíð College)
  Graduated with both a major in physics and nature science in 1995. Points needed for graduation are 140 but I finished with 160.
   
• Holte Gymnasium - Denmark
  I took the first year of college in Denmark while living there 1991-1992.
   

Awards and grants:

• Presidential medal for innovation in research 1999
  An award given by the Icelandic president for my research on automatic detection and classification of vessels on retinal fundus images.
   
• The research fund for students 1999
  Funding for working on automatic detection and classification of vessels on retinal fundus images (images of the bottom of the eye). The work aimed at creating an automatic diagnostic support system to assist ophthalmologist in diagnosing diabetic retinopaty.
   
• The Danish Rectors Conference Scholarship of 9 months´ duration during the academic year 1999-2000 for studies at the Technical University of Denmark.

Publications:

• R. Larsen, H. Eiriksson,L1 Generalized Procrustes 2D Shape Alignment, Eleventh International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Techincal University of Denmark, DTU, 2002
• R. Larsen, H. Eiriksson, M. B. Stegmann, Q-MAF Shape Decomposition. To appear in proc. 4th int. conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2001, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• R. Larsen, H. Eiriksson, 2D Shape Alignment, 7th Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 9-10 December 2001
• Hrafnkell Eiríksson and Rasmus Larsen; On 2D Shape Alignment; Informatics and Mathematical Modelling;Technical report: IMM-REP-2001-9
• Hrafnkell Eiriksson;Shape Representation, Alignment and Decomposition;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling; July 2001;Masters Thesis

Work:

• Marel hf.
  Engineer in research and technical development department, autumn 2001-current time
  Research and development of computer vision with emphasis on X-ray imaging and processing.
   
• Research assistant for Center for Proteom Analysis & DTU
  Research and programming, summer 2000
  Implemented image processing algorithms that will be used to automate the processing of electrophoresis gels used for proteom analysis at the Center for Proteom Analysis (CPA) in Odense Denmark. The work was done at the section for Image Analysis at DTU.
   
• University of Iceland
  Research, summer 1999
  Hired to do continued research related to my graduation project: "Detection and classification of vessels on retinal fundus images". The aim is to create an automated system to assist opthalmologists in diagnosing diabetic retinopati.
  I was awarded the medal for innovation in 1999 from the Icelandic president for my work on this project.
   
• Morgunblaðið
  Programmer and system administrator, summer 1997 - 1999
  Morgunblaðið is the largest newspaper in Iceland. I've been responsible for and/or involved in designing and implementing the database structure and most programs needed for publishing Morgunblaðið on the web. I designed their database for tracking sports results and putting them on the web, I was part of the team that created their news web and I did most of the work regarding the database work behind the real estate web. My work speaks for it self I hope:
  http://www.mbl.is/frettir
  http://www.mbl.is/fasteignir
  http://www.mbl.is/sport
   
• Teymi hf. - Oracle in Iceland
  User support and system administration, summer 1996 - Christmas 1996
  Responsible for helping Oracle (which is a relational database system) users and solving their problems and administrating the local Unix computers. User support often involved contacting and working with Oracle's support office in Denmark. I also wrote a system for tracking support cases and improving the quality of the user support.
   
• Íslenska menntanetið - Icelandic Educational Network (http://www.ismennt.is/)
  Technician for the Icelandic Educational Network from Christmas 1994- summer 1995
  The Icelandic Educational Network was pioneering in networking and connecting schools and educational institutions in Iceland to the Internet. My role was to create a package of the software needed to connect to the Internet and designing a networking service for schools with Internet connection. I also did some system administration.
   

Special skills and experience

• Image and signal processing.
• Scientific computing.
• Programming languages: C,C++,Java,Perl,Python,Scheme and Matlab.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux and other Unix systems.
• Networking, TCP/IP.
• Database design and administration.
• Electronics, both digital and analog RF (I am a radio amateur and hold a class A license (all bands and CW)).

Teaching experience:

• Computer hardware fundamentals
  Lab instructor both spring '98 and spring '99. Computer hardware fundamentals is a first year undergraduate course at the University of Iceland. Material covered includes basic electronics, boolean algebra, logic gates and flip flops, computer units (memory, CPU) and 68HC11 assembly programming.
• SQL crashcourse
  Instructor fall'98
  Gave a one day course on SQL and databases for employees of Morgunblađiđ.

Social activities:

• Chairman for the IEEE students branch at the University of Iceland the winter 1997-1998.
• Network administrator and "the friendly guy that helps with the computers" at the Kvintus students dorm.
• Scout, leader of a group of 30 boys 1993-1995
• Translation of the KDE desktop environment to Icelandic.

Interests:

• Signal processing, image- processing and pattern recognition.
• Communication.
• The politics of Free software.
• Computers and the Linux OS (OS internals)
• Cooking.
• Amateur radio.
• Playing my guitar.

Languages:

 I speak Icelandic as my native language. I can speak, read and write English fluently. Because of living in Denmark for a year 1991-1992 (16 years old) and from 1999 to 2001 I also speak Danish fluently. I'm able to read some German.