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Pål Sundsøy, PhD

About

  • Name: Pål Sundsøy, PhD
  • Email: sundsoy@gmail.com
  • Phone: (0047) 918 45 206
  • Nationality: Norway

Professional Profile

Senior Data Scientist with large global footprint.
Msc in Physics, PHD in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

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Research projects

Publicatons, conferences, media exposure

30+ conference talks and 20+ scientific papers on Big Data/Data Science for Social Sciences.
Research cited in e.g. Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, Science News, Huffington Post, The Nation, Harvard Magazine, White House Report on Big Data, World Bank, Yahoo Finance, Vice Media etc
Main research collaborators: MIT Media Lab, MIT Sloan, Harvard, Flowminder.
Scientific commitee member at Netmob, MIT. All visualisations beneath are produced by Pål Sundsøy.

High-Profile Research

Predicting poverty using mobile phone and satellite data
Co-authored with MIT Media Lab and Flowminder.
Published in Royal Society Interface (2017).

Selected Press:
Poverty mapped in near real-time (Seeker)
Phone and satellite data flesh out high resolution poverty map(newatlas)
Mobile phone and satellite data to map poverty(phys.org)
Improving official statistics in emerging markets using machine learning and mobile phone data
Co-authored with MIT Media Lab, Imperial College.
Published in EPJ Data Science (2017).

Selected Press:
How AI can help in a humanitarian Crisis (Huffington Post)
Humanitarian efforts could be aided by Artificial Intelligence (Imperial College)
Towards real-time prediction of unemployment and profession
Co-authored with MIT Media Lab, Flowminder. ArxiV:1612.03870 (2016).

Selected Press:
How Metadata can reveal what your job is (Vice Media)
Can Mobile Usage Predict Illiteracy in a Development Country?
Pål Sundsøy
ArxiV:1607.01337 (2016)

Selected Press :
MIT Technology Review , World Bank, Yahoo Finance, EnGadget.com, Mobile Today, Top Innovations.
Predicting Individual Income Based on Deep Neural Networks
Co-authored with MIT Media Lab.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2016).
Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan.
Co-authored with Harvard School of Publich Health.
Published in PNAS (2015)

Selected Press: 30+ newspapers. Harvard Magazine, Bill Gates @ Twitter, Science Daily, Economic Times, Science News line, The Nation, India Today, Dagens Næringsliv, Dagens Medisin, DIGI, NRK Radio, Nasdaq ++
Big Data-Driven Marketing: How Machine Learning outperforms marketers' gut-feeling.
Co-authored with MIT Media Lab.
Published in Springer (2014)
Selected Press : Gates Foundation, Bostinno
Comparing and visualizing the social spreading of products on a large-scale social network

Selected Press:
Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, White House Big Data Report (under President Obama), Science News
Using Patterns of Big Data to Track Human Migration
Co-authored with Flowminder
Published in Global Environmental Change (2016)

Selected Press:
Climate and migration Coalition

Experience

My work experience


Invited Speaker, United Nations Big Data conference, 2015 (Abu Dhabi): How Big Data can be used for Social Good and Poverty reduction
NBIM, Systematic Strategies

Senior Quant Analyst

2016-
NBIM is the investment arm of Norway's Central Bank that manages the world's largest sovereign wealth fund with assets of close to $1 trillion USD.

Management of global systematic long-short equity portfolio and programming quant investment strategies and ideas.
Telenor Group

Senior Data Scientist

2007-2016
Working in Big Data Analytics Group at Telenor Group Research towards all business units (Asia, Europe). Collaborating with Data Science teams @ MiT, Harvard, Northeastern.
Work Reference (VP Analytics & AI)
Work Reference (VP Big Data Analytics)
European Space Agency

Head Engineer

2006 - 2007
Head Engineer in the joint NASA/ESA/JAXA Hinode space mission project. Financed by European Space Agency (ESA) and Norwegian Space Agency. Based at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway.
World Health Organization

Database Developer

2006
Database Developer in the unit of Health statistics and evidence. Development of database in relation to vital registration systems, and work related to statistical analysis.
Biotechnology, NTNU

Database Developer

2008 - 2006
Research assistant/Database Developer in a cooperation project with the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology.
Physics, NTNU

Student assistant

2006 - 2004
Student assistant in FY2045 Quantum Physics/TFY4250 Atomic and molecular physics.

Education

Just my education


Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2012 : Mapping out large-scale social networks using mobile phone data
University of Oslo

PHD, DATA SCIENCE

2017
Through seven publications this dissertation shows how anonymized mobile phone data can contribute to the social good and provide insights into human behaviour on a large scale. The size of the datasets analysed ranges from 500 million to 300 billion phone records, covering millions of people. Thesis Title: "Big Data for Social Sciences: Measuring human behaviour through large-scale mobile phone data".
Download Press Release (PDF, 2 pages)
Full Thesis (PDF, 167 pages)
Defence Talk (PDF, 23 slides)
How mobile phone data can reduce catastrophes and poverty (Interview related to my PhD in Titan (norwegian))
NTNU, Trondheim

Msc Physics

1999 - 2005
Master (Siv.ing) in Physics and Mathematics. Additional studies within Economics & Organizational Psychology after Msc.
University of Geneva

PHD assistant

2005-2006
PHD assistant/Quantum Physics under guidance of Prof. Nicolas Gisin. Experimental quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation and quantum memory.
UNSW, Sydney

Exch. Student

2003
Exchange student, one term. Studies within mathematical modelling and advanced quantum mechanics.
Bjerkely Country College

Computer science

1998-1999
MLine of study: Computer programming within C++. Directed study within C++.

Photography

My Travel Pictures

I am a self-learned photographer, written 3 photography books, and my interest in photography started back in 2005. So far I have been travelling in 75 countries, and my favorite is Myanmar/Burma.

From interview with Hallingdølen, June 2018

Myanmar, or Burma, is probably unlike every other country you will visit. The country is to a large extent undiscovered by tourists, mainly due to the isolation the country has been in for decades and the restrictions that were imposed on foreigners.

Myanmar in 2 Minutes. Photography by Pål Sundsøy

My travel pictures

Books available at Amazon

Glimpse from my Burma book

Drone video productions

My drone videoes are available at vimeo. New productions will turn up when time permits.

Kalvåg, Western Norway (4K Drone)

Out by the open sea a small town Kalvåg is located on the Island Frøya. This is also the place where half my family is coming from (Sundsøy - Seen at 1:12 between the two bridges). Kalvåg and the exceptional nature surroundings is here captured from the air in 4K resolution. Filmed, edited and graded by Pål Sundsøy.
My drone productions

Contact


Telenor Group Big Data Conf (2014) : Mapping out Large-scale Human Mobillity using mobile phone data

Let's Keep In Touch

Pål Sundsøy
0274 Oslo, Norway
Phone
+47 918 45 206
Email
sundsoy@gmail.com

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