Thorsten Ottosen is currently a Ph.D. student at the Machine Intelligence group at Aalborg University. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Aalborg University, Denmark (2005). After having studied mathematics at University of Technology in Sydney, Australia (2003), he returned to Denmark to write a second thesis in the area of decision support systems (2004). His first thesis was in computer graphics since he used to dream about making computer games.

Thorsten is also a co-owner and part-time employee of Dezide, a company that specializes is trouble-shooting programs based on Bayesian-network technology.

In his spare-time he used to code/read/hack C++ and participate in ANSI/ISO C++ committee meetings. He now focuses a bit more on his thesis. In his spare-time he enjoys jogging, reading, and being with family and friends.