Rogardt Heldal is a professor of Software Engineering at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Heldal holds an honours degree in Computer Science from Glasgow University, Scotland and a PhD in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Many of his research projects are performed in collaboration with the industry. Currently, he is part of a large national project to monitor the ocean, to build a smart ocean platform. He has more than 100+ papers in top conferences and journals.