Curriculum Vitae

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