I am an professor at the Biomedical Informatics Research Group (BMI) at the Section of Machine learning at the Department of informatics (IFI), University of Oslo (UiO). My current research is focused on development of machine learning methodology to learn sequence patterns in immune cells indicative of disease. In particular, I focus on the ability of machine learning models to generalize, on how mechanistic/causal relations underlying a domain can be handled and exploited for machine learning, on development of software platforms for domain-adapted machine learning and on the development of methodology for Multiple-instance learning. I previously worked on statistical genome analysis and motif discovery in DNA. I also have a strong interest for teaching and supervision.