Kjetil Nørvåg is a professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at NTNU. He is affiliated with the Data and artificial intelligence group, where his main research interests include distributed and parallel database systems, query processing, information retrieval, and Big Data in general.
Nørvåg is also research director at the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI). This is a center for research-based innovation (SFI) that develops new technologies for successful and responsible exploitation of data-driven artificial intelligence in industrial innovations. NorwAI is supported by the Research Center of Norway, three universities, two research institutes and 11 companies.
He has been involved in teaching on a wide range of topics, including Data mining, Big Data architecture, Advanced databases, Information retrieval, Distributed systems, Data modelling and database systems, Operating systems, Algorithms and data structures, Computer architecture, and Computer systems.