Curriculum vitae

Johannes Bjerva

Professor of Natural Language Processing at Aalborg University.

Appointments

Full Professor
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Assistant Professor, tenure track
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen

Education

PhD, Natural Language Processing
University of Groningen

MA, Computational Linguistics
Stockholm University

BA, Computational Linguistics
Stockholm University

Selected research funding

Formal Semantic Methods for AI Safety
Coefficient Giving · DKK 2.4M

AI:SECURITY
AI:X Labs · Aalborg University · ~DKK 7M

TRUST
Independent Research Fund Denmark · Sapere Aude · DKK 6.2M

Digital Twins for Abundant Feedback
Villum Foundation · Synergy · DKK 3M

Guarantees of Factuality in LLM-based Extraction of Financial KPIs
Innovation Fund Denmark · DKK 1.1M

(LM)²-SEC
Novo Nordisk Foundation · DKK 9.9M

Multilingual Modelling for Resource-Poor Languages
Carlsberg Foundation · DKK 5M

Memberships, policy & recognition

Member
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)

Working Group Chair
Use of AI in Science for Policy, SAPEA / EC Scientific Advice Mechanism

Committee Member
Industrial Researcher Committee, Innovation Fund Denmark

Member
The Young Academy (Det Unge Akademi)

Teacher of the Year
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Selected leadership

Head of the Copenhagen Section
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Research Leader for Natural Language Processing
AAU-NLP, Department of Computer Science

Team Lead for Copenhagen
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

Lead, precursor NLP group
Informal leadership before AAU-NLP was formally established

Academic service and engagement →