Professor Asgeir J. Sørensen obtained MSc degree in Marine Technology in 1988 at NTNU, and PhD degree in Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU in 1993. In 1989-1992 Sørensen was employed at MARINTEK (SINTEF) as Research Scientist. In the years 1993-2002 Sørensen was employed in various positions in the ABB Group. In December 2002 Sørensen become co-founder of the company, Marine Cybernetics AS, where he was acting as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) until June 2010. In 2012, 2015 and 2017 Sørensen became a co-founder of the companies Ecotone AS, Eelume AS, Pascal Technologies AS and Zeabuz AS, respectively. Since 1999 Sørensen has held the position of Professor of Marine Control Systems at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU. In the period 2003-2012 he was key scientist in the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS), and 2013-2023 Sørensen was key scientist and the Director of the Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (NTNU AMOS). He is currently director of NTNU VISTA CAROS. Since 2024 Sørensen has been engaged as adjunct professor at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Faculty management at Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics. Sørensen has authored more than 280 scientific articles and book chapters, and he has graduated more than 112 MSc and 41 PhD candidates. He has also together with colleagues established the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory (MC-Lab) and the Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AUR-Lab), both at NTNU. Sørensen is engaged in bringing fundamental research results into value creation by innovations and entrepreneurships.