Dr. Torbjörn Nordling obtained both his Ph.D. in Automatic Control (2013) and his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics (2005) from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has specialised in mathematical modelling, system identification, and machine learning with applications in biology and medicine. He has developed both new theory and methodology, most notably, for robust network inference and feature selection.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. He is also associated with Stockholm Bioinformatics Center at the Science for Life Laboratory in Sweden. Previously he has done a PostDoc at the Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University in Sweden. He has been a visiting researcher at Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Naples, Italy and ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project at Japan Science and Technology Agency in Tokyo, Japan. He has co-authored 8 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 full-length conference articles, and given numerous oral and poster presentations. His research is currently focused on Systems biology, Biomarker discovery, Bioinformatics, and Data science in general.