| Name: | Olav Sandstå |
|---|---|
| Year of birth: | 1968 |
| Citizenship: | Norwegian |
| Phone: | +47 73 84 21 97 (Sun Microsystems), +47 73 92 17 03 (home) |
| Email: | olavsa@idi.ntnu.no |
| URL: | http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~olavsa/ |
| Office address: | Department of Computer and Information Science |
| O.S. Bragstads Plass 2E | |
| N-7491 Trondheim, Norway | |
| Home address: | Ingemann Torps veg 106 |
| N-7040 Trondheim |
Doctoral student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. I am affiliated with The Database Systems Group. Research area is "Storage and Delivery of Digital Video in Multimedia Database Management Systems".
Siv.ing. (Norwegian degree, equivalent to the M.Sc. degree), Norwegian Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Systems and Telematics, May 1992. Thesis: "Parallel execution of Relational Algebra Operations".
| 1999-: | Senior Engineer at Clustra, working with development of the Clustra DBMS kernel. |
| 1995-1999: | Research Fellow at the Database Group, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. |
| Fall 94: | Researcher with The Algorithm Construction Group, Department of Computer Systems and Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology. |
| 1993-1994: | Military service at the Norwegian Military Headquarter, working with the Computer Department at the Navy Staff where I mainly was doing application development and transaction processing on the personnel system running on a DB2 DBMS. |
| 1991-1993: | Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Systems and Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology. |
Multimedia and database systems, digital video, high speed networks, operating systems, computer architecture, programming languages (more details can be found here).
I am responsible for running the department's ATM based high speed network, and is also doing database administration of the department's Oracle DBMS.
A list of my publications can be found here.
As a part of my PhD work I have advised seven students for the Master degree.
English, written and oral. Knowledge of basic German.
Music, literature, traveling.