Curriculum Vitae
Aarne Ranta
August 2018
Personal Data
- name Aarne Ranta
- born 11 May 1963 in Tampere, Finland
- Finnish and Swedish citizen
- married, 4 children
Academic Degrees
- 2018 PhD Honoris Causa, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tampere
- 1990 PhD Theoretical Philosophy (University of Helsinki; studies
1987--1990 at University of Stockholm, supervisor Per Martin-Löf)
- 1987 Phil. Mag. Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics (University of Helsinki)
Post-doctoral degrees
- Docent of Computer Science 2001 (University of Gothenburg)
- Docent of Theoretical Philosophy 1991 (U Helsinki, U Tampere)
Current Position
- Professor of Computer Science, University of Gothenburg, 1 July 2005-
- Digital Grammars Gothenburg AB, founder and CEO, 15 March 2014-
Previous Positions
- 1999-2005: Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Department of
Computing Science, Lecturer/Associate Professor
- 1997-1999: Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble.
Visiting Professor/Research Engineer in the Multilingual Theory and Technology Group
- 1994-1998: Academy of Finland, Junior Fellow,
placed at University of Helsinki
- 1990-1994: Academy of Finland, Research Assistant,
placed at University of Helsinki
- 1990: 3 months stay at University of Amsterdam
- 1987-1990: Academy of Finland, Graduate Student grant,
placed at University of Stockholm
Leaves
- 2005: parental leave, 3 months, 40%
- 2015-16: leave for starting a company, 12 months, 40%
Supervised Doctoral Degrees
- Grégoire Détrez 2016
- Ramona Enache 2013
- Shafqat Virk 2013
- Dana Dannélls 2013 (as co-supervisor)
- Krasimir Angelov 2012
- Muhammad Humayoun 2012 (U Grenoble, as co-supervisor)
- Björn Bringert 2008
- Markus Forsberg 2007
- Janna Khegai 2006
- Kristofer Johannisson 2005
- Peter Ljunglöf 2004
Research Grants as Principal Investigator
- 2013-2017: Vetenskapsrådet (Sweden),
"Reliable Multilingual Digital Communication: Methods and Applications",
ca. 2000 kEUR
- 2010-2013: European Commission (FP7),
"MOLTO (Multilingual Online Translation)" (FP7-ICT-247914),
2375 kEUR, extended with 600 kEUR in 2012-2013
- 2006-2006: Vetenskapsrådet (Sweden), "Library-Based Grammar Engineering",
ca. 200 kEUR
- 2001-2004: VINNOVA (Sweden), "Interactive Language Technology",
ca. 450 kEUR
- 1994-1998: Academy of Finland, Junior Fellow grant,
ca. 60 kEUR
- 1990-1994: Academy of Finland, Research Assistant grant,
ca. 100 kEUR
- 1987-1990: Academy of Finland, Graduate Student grant,
ca. 70 kEUR
Organization of conferences
- GEAF workshop at ACL-2015, Beijing, co-chair
- GF Summer School 2015 (Marsalforn, Malta) co-chair, 2013 (Fraueninsel, Germany) co-chair, 2011
(Barcelona) co-chair, 2009 (Gothenburg) chair
- EACL-2014, Gothenburg, local co-chair
- FreeRBMT-2012, Gothenburg, PC chair
- GoTAL-2008, Gothenburg, PC chair and organization chair
Positions of Trust
- 2017-,
Head of Division for Functional Programming, Chalmers University of Technology and
University of Gothenburg.
- 2017-,
member of Steering Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
- 2016-,
member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (KVVS)
- 2016-,
board member of Språkbanken (Bank of Swedish)
- 2015-,
member of Faculty Board ("Fakultetsstyrelsen"),
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology
- 2013-,
co-chair of Faculty ("Kollegium"),
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
- 2012-2016,
chair of the Local Recruitment Committee,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
- 2009-2015,
co-director of Grammar Technology Lab,
Centre of Language Technology (Focus Area
of Research),
University of Gothenburg
- 2009-2015,
member of Steering Group, Centre of Language Technology (Focus Area
of Research),
University of Gothenburg
- 2008-2010,
Head of Division for Computing Science, Chalmers University of Technology and
University of Gothenburg
- 2008-2010,
member of Steering Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
- 2008-2011,
member of Steering Group, Computer Science Education Programme,
University of Gothenburg
- 2006-2007,
member of Advisory Group, Computer Science Education Programmes,
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
- 1999-2008,
member of Steering Group, Computational Linguistic Education Programme,
University of Gothenburg,
Evaluation tasks
Separate document: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/evaluations.html
Publications
Separate document: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/publications.html
Invited talks
Separate document: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/visits.html