Center for Analysis and Design
of Intelligent Agents
Reykjavik University's AI Research Center — est. 2005
Explore
Reykjavik University's AI Research Center — est. 2005
ExploreThe Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA) is an interdisciplinary AI research center at Reykjavik University — the first of its kind in the Nordic countries and the oldest research center at RU. Founded in 2005, the center brings together faculty from Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology, and Law.
Our ten core faculty members advise PhD students and numerous MSc and BSc students, pursuing research across general machine intelligence, natural language processing, virtual reality, computer vision, cognitive science, digital health, explainable AI, and game-playing agents.
CADIA has strong ties to industry and society, playing a central role in Iceland's Language Technology Programme and collaborating with partners across Iceland, Europe, and North America.
CADIA is organized as an umbrella entity around several research groups with artificial intelligence as a central theme.
Individual lab websites are currently being updated and will be migrated to a new setup soon.
Natural language processing and speech technology for Icelandic and beyond. A key contributor to the Language Technology Programme for Icelandic.
Research on artificial general intelligence, autonomous learning systems, and cumulative machine learning.
Game-playing agents, search algorithms, explainable AI, and applied machine learning methods.
Virtual humans, nonverbal behavior, multimodal interaction, and social computing in virtual environments.
Cognitive workload monitoring, fatigue assessment, digital health, and human factors in safety-critical environments.
Human-robot interaction, computer vision for robotics, and applied AI in industrial and marine settings.
Core faculty spanning Computer Science, Engineering, and Psychology.
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Department of Computer Science
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Professor
Department of Engineering
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
PhD students, postdocs, and research assistants coming soon.
The Nordic AI Meet comes to Reykjavik, hosted by CADIA. A gathering of Nordic AI researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts.
ConferenceHannes Högni Vilhjálmsson gave a joint talk with Viðar Styrkársson (Advania AI Center) titled "Borgarskipulag með hjálp gervigreindar og sýndarveruleika" (City Planning Supported by AI and VR) at BIM Iceland's Day of Digital Construction, held at Harpa.
TalkIn the age of artificial intelligence, communication is a prerequisite for success. The Department of Law and the Department of Computer Science hosted an event bringing leading experts from both fields into one room to start the conversation. Members of CADIA participated in the event. 13:00–16:00.
EventHannes Högni Vilhjálmsson spoke about the Historical Postal Route project at the "Lunch with Digital Humanities" lecture series, organized by the Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts. Veröld, 12:00.
TalkHannes Högni Vilhjálmsson delivered the keynote "The Quest for Producing Meaningful Social Motion" at the 10th anniversary workshop on Virtual Humans and Crowds in Immersive Environments at IEEE VR '26 in Daegu, Korea.
KeynoteA conference at Reykjavik University exploring how AI reshapes decision-making — from national sovereignty and data governance to human cognition in an AI-enabled world.
ConferenceA symposium on the first computational linguistics project researching Icelandic in Iceland. Stefán Ólafsson discussed the origins, objectives, and technical challenges of the project "Tíðni orða í Hreiðrinu", and Sigrún Helgadóttir presented projects that followed until the early 2000s. Hosted by the Center for Language Technology and CLARIN-IS at Edda, Reykjavik.
SymposiumKristinn R. Þórisson delivered a keynote address at the Nordic AI Meet 2025, in Norrköping, Sweden.
KeynoteThe AGI Society Annual Technical Conference, held in Iceland. Bringing together researchers working on artificial general intelligence.
ConferenceCelebrating two decades of AI research at Reykjavik University. Events planned throughout 2025 including the AI and Society symposium in collaboration with the Open University. The AI Festival gathering brought together researchers, industry, and the public to discuss the latest in AI.
Festival
CADIA runs a multi-purpose experimental facility for human-computer interaction research.
Please contact us to book the facility.
The setup includes a back-projected floor-standing screen, speakers, 3D cameras, controllable lights, virtual reality equipment, audio recording equipment, and access to a physiological measurement station (from the Department of Psychology).
View usage scheduleCADIA — Reykjavik University
Menntavegur 1
102 Reykjavik, Iceland
