PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Christian Guttmann

Christian Guttmann researches intelligent agents and AI for health care, carrying this work from university research into AI products and industry leadership. He completes a PhD in artificial intelligence and agents at Monash University and coauthors a 2009 chapter on collaborative-care systems. His career includes healthcare AI at Etisalat and IBM, AI leadership at Tieto, Pega and EQT, and research on predictive analytics for complex chronic care. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute, with a research affiliation at Karolinska Institutet through 2029.

Now at
Karolinska Institutet and Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute
Works
40
Citations
128
h-index
5
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2003–2009

    An AI PhD and care agents

    He completes a PhD in artificial intelligence and agents at Monash University in 2008. In 2009, he coauthors a chapter titled “Towards an intelligent agent framework to manage and coordinate collaborative care” in Advances on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

  2. 2010–2014

    AI work at Etisalat and IBM

    From 2010 to 2012, he serves as senior researcher and iCare theme leader at Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Centre. From 2012 to 2014, he leads health-care AI, services and operations at IBM Research in Australia.

  3. 2016–2018

    Founding HealthiHabits

    In 2016, he founds HealthiHabits, an AI startup in Stockholm. It uses AI to help people make better health choices.

  4. 2018–2022

    Leading Tieto's AI work

    From 2018 to 2022, he leads AI and data at TietoEVRY as a vice president. In October 2018, he describes Tieto's AI ethics certificate and its hiring plans for AI ethics and transparency engineers and AI trainers.

  5. April 2023

    Engineering AI at Pega

    In April 2023, Pega appoints him vice president of engineering, decisioning and AI to oversee the architecture and delivery of AI technology for its Pega Infinity product suite.

  6. 2024

    Predictive analytics for chronic care

    In 2024, he coauthors an International Journal of Medical Informatics study that explores how physician managers want predictive analytics to support patients with complex chronic conditions.

  7. 2025

    AI leadership at EQT

    In 2025, he becomes Managing Director and Head of AI Tech at EQT Group.

  8. 2026–2029

    Research at Karolinska and NAII

    He holds a research affiliation at Karolinska Institutet for 2026–2029 and serves as Founder and Executive Director of the Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute. His work connects enterprise AI strategy and commercial product development with expertise in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.

Career

  1. Since 2026Karolinska InstitutetResearch affiliate
  2. Since 2026Nordic Artificial Intelligence InstituteFounder and Executive Director
  3. From 2025EQT GroupManaging Director and Head of AI Tech
  4. From 2023Pegasystems Inc.Vice President of Engineering, Decisioning and AI
  5. 2018–2022TietoEVRYVice President, AI and Data
  6. From 2016HealthiHabitsFounder
  7. 2012–2014IBM ResearchLead, Health-Care AI, Services and Operations
  8. 2010–2012Etisalat British Telecom Innovation CentreSenior Researcher and iCare Theme Leader
  9. 2010–2012EBTIC
  10. 2009–2012Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Education

  1. 2008Monash UniversityPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Collaborative Agents - Research and Development2011 · Lecture notes in computer science · 18 citationsWith Frank Dignum and Michael P. Georgeff
  2. Making Allocations Collectively: Iterative Group Decision Making under Uncertainty2008 · Lecture notes in computer science · 14 citations
  3. Deep Learning Architectures for Vector Representations of Patients and Exploring Predictors of 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions2019 · Lecture notes in computer science · 12 citations
  4. Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators’ Internal Resources2004 · Lecture notes in computer science · 10 citations
  5. A Study of an Approach to the Collective Iterative Task Allocation Problem2007 · IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology · 7 citationsWith Iyad Rahwan and Michael P. Georgeff

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. Google alumni founded or led 87 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Christian Guttmann. We trace 212 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 223 career moves between the labs.
  2. 14% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Christian Guttmann. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after their doctorate, and how the timing changed across cohorts.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes IBM. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Monash University. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Christian Guttmann | Karolinska Institutet ki.se. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Towards an intelligent agent framework to manage and coordinate collaborative care - Monash University research.monash.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Accomplished AI Leader Dr. Christian Guttmann Joins Pega to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence Innovations | Pega pega.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Tieto joins European AI Alliance to shape the era of artificial intelligence news.cision.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. About NAII: The Fellow Network — Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute nordicaiinstitute.com. Checked 19 October 2026.