Prof. Ole-Christoffer Granmo is the Founding Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) at the University of Agder, Norway. His passion for artificial intelligence was lit at the age of ten when he got his first computer and discovered programming. Fascinated by the idea of superintelligence, he obtained his master's degree in 1999 and his PhD degree in 2004, both from the University of Oslo, Norway. In 2018, Granmo created the Tsetlin machine built upon propositional logic and the work of Mikhail Tsetlin; for this he was awarded the ‘AI research paper of the decade’ by the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NORA) in 2022 Dr. Granmo has authored 180+ refereed papers with eight paper awards in machine learning, encompassing learning automata, bandit algorithms, Tsetlin machines, Bayesian reasoning, reinforcement learning, and computational linguistics. He has further coordinated 7+ research projects and graduated 55+ master- and nine PhD students. Dr. Granmo is also a co-founder of NORA. Along with chairing Literal Labs’ Technical Steering Committee, Dr. Granmo is also a co-founder of NORA and co-founded Anzyz Technologies and Tsense Intelligent Healthcare.
Professor Ole-Christoffer Granmo has contributed to the authorship of the following papers relevant to Literal Labs' technology.