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’Everyone should be able to participate in distance work meetings on same terms’
Isolation is a recurring line of argument in the reasoning behind distance meetings. Edlund’s thesis, after 20 years of observations in the field, is that hybrid meetings are less successful. When three participants are in one room and face each other to discuss, it excludes the person joining remotely. Photo: Unsplash Published Oct 11, 2021A work meeting where some participate together in a room while others join from distance is a bad solution, says Jens Edlund, university lecturer at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH. ...
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Winner of the Google PhD Fellowship 2021
Alireza Farshin, Doctoral Student at The Division of Software and Computer Systems (SCS) Published Sep 27, 2021We met up with Alireza Farshin who has won the award Google PhD Fellowship 2021 and talked about what the fellowship will mean.
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Newsmakers at KTH
Published Sep 17, 2021Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings, results and researchers have attracted attention outside KTH? Under the vignette Newsmakers, we provide a selection of the latest news an...
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Congratulations Christos Verginis!
Published Sep 03, 2021The European PhD Award is given annually in recognition of the best PhD thesis in Europe, in the field of Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems. This yearly competition is very tough due to an...
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Congratulations Lissy Pellaco!
Published Sep 01, 2021Lissy Pellaco, doctoral student at ISE has been awarded “Outstanding Student Paper Award” at the International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021) for her paper “Deep ...
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Research summer school
Priyanka Shinde and the two students she mentored Published Aug 31, 2021Rays is a summer research school aimed at students who are in their second year of high school and who have a burning interest in science, technology and mathematics. EECS Doctoral student Priyanka Sh...
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Congratulations Bo Normark
Published Aug 24, 2021A legend in power grid technology, and a pioneer in smart electricity grids and battery systems. KTH Royal Institute of Technology's new honorary doctor, Bo Normark, is a visionary and an initiator wh...
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Champion for women's and children's health receives KTH Innovation Award
Rustam Nabiev was named the first recipient of the new KTH Innovation Award as co-founder of Shifo. (Photo: Patrik Lundmark) Published Jul 01, 2021The very first KTH Innovation Award goes to Rustam Nabiev, co-founder of the non-profit Shifo Foundation, which focuses on children’s health in countries with low vaccination rates. Nabiev has a cryst...
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A radically different approach led to best paper award
Published Jun 22, 2021Hello there, Ana Rusu and Dagur Ingi Albertsson! You have co-authored the paper “A Magnetic Field-to-Digital Converter Employing a Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillator” (together with Johan Åkerman at the Univ...
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Newsmakers at KTH
Published Jun 01, 2021Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings, results and researchers have attracted attention outside KTH? Under the vignette Newsmakers, we provide a selection of the latest news an...
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EECS represented in IVA's 100 list
Published May 19, 2021Visbac: Visualises how viruses and bacteria can spread in indoor air, for example in hospitals.
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Lorenzo Frassinetti – Teacher of the year
Published May 10, 2021Lorenzo Frassinetti, Associate Professor at the Division of Fusion Plasma Physics, has been awarded the Konglig elektrosektionen Teacher of the year-award.
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György Dán is the supervisor of the year!
Published Apr 27, 2021This year, the PhD Chapter of THS launched a Supervisor of the Year Award in order to highlight exemplary supervision practices in Third Cycle Education at KTH. An independent jury of doctoral student...
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Miel Sharf – one of Forbes’ Israel 30 under 30
Published Apr 20, 2021Postdoctoral researcher at The Division of Decision and Control Systems, Miel Sharf, has been chosen as one of Forbes’ Israel 30 under 30. Talented young people who has shown that "creativity can't be...
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Researchers develop a technique that detects weaknesses in software testing
Martin Monperrus and Benoit Baudry Published Apr 06, 2021We have had a chat with Professor Benoit Baudry and Professor Martin Monperrus about their novel testing technique.
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AI and cyber security at Vetenskapens hus
Published Mar 29, 2021Vetenskapens hus wants to inspire high school students to choose higher education in science, technology and mathematics. They have therefore invited a number of researchers from KTH and Stockholm Uni...
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The smallest gold can have the greatest value
Photo: Karl Nordlund Published Mar 10, 2021Congratulations to Assistant Professor Mariana Dalarsson, who was awarded the L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Prize with the support of the Young Academy of Sweden 2021. She receives the prize "be...
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How the brain keeps useful information while ignoring unuseful noise
Published Mar 01, 2021Imagine you're in a stadium reporting on a game. It's a loud environment which you don't want to transmit. But when you're interviewing a player, then you do want to transmit. Wouldn't it be great if ...
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Brain training is made visible through a headset
With a headset and app, users can see their own brain signals, or neurons, and influence them in various games via focused thinking. On the display you can see how the body pumps blood to the areas of the brain being trained. The technology is known as neurofeedback and up to now, has primarily been used within the care sector and by company executives and sports stars to deal with stress, anxiety, ADHD, sleeping problems, migraines, memory difficulties and similar disorders. Published Feb 23, 2021Training your brain with the aid of a headset with infrared light and an app is pure physical exercise for your brain, claims KTH alumnus Rickard Eklöf. “Except it is a training session where you don...
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Devices could become even smaller, more powerful with method for integrating 2D materials
If we could shrink semiconductors even further, a whole new silicon revolution would follow. Photo: AB Published Feb 10, 2021If we could shrink semiconductors even further, a whole new silicon revolution would follow. But because that’s impossible, the next best hope is integrating semiconductors with 2D atomically-thin mat...
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