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  • Miel Sharf – one of Forbes’ Israel 30 under 30

    Published Apr 20, 2021

    Postdoctoral 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, 2021

    We 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

    Electric scooters and pavement with sharp shadows.
    Published Mar 29, 2021

    Vetenskapens 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, 2021

    Congratulations 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

    Extreme close-up of neurons in the human brain
    Published Mar 01, 2021

    Imagine 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

    Headset being used by a man watching the app on a smartphone
    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, 2021

    Training 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

    Picture of a wearable sensor
    If we could shrink semiconductors even further, a whole new silicon revolution would follow. Photo: AB
    Published Feb 10, 2021

    If 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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  • Professor Lina Bertling Tjernberg, appointed coordinator for lifelong learning

    Published Jan 27, 2021

    Sweden's universities have received an increased mandate from the Government for Lifelong Learning. EECS's Head of school has appointed Professor Lina Bertling Tjernberg to this important role.

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  • Congratulations Amir Payberah!

    Published Jan 27, 2021

    Amir H. Payberah, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Division of Software and Computer Systems, have together with former master student Andrea Nardelli and Professor Vladimir Vlassov, rec...

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  • ICT studies led to engineering job in online financial services

    Portrait picture of Louis Cameron Booth.
    Louis Cameron Booth studied the International bachelor´s programme Information and Communication Technology at KTH. He is now a software developer at Klarna.
    Published Jan 25, 2021

    Four years ago he moved from London to Stockholm to study for a bachelor´s degree in Information and Communication Technology at KTH. Louis Cameron Booth now works as a software engineer at global pay...

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  • Dora inspires girls to learn to code

    Profile picture of Dora Palfi.
    Dora Palfi is CEO of start-up Imagilabs that wants more girls to become interested in coding.
    Published Jan 14, 2021

    Four years ago, Dora Palfi was reunited with her Romanian friend Beatrice Ionascu at KTH, whom she had got to know when they were both undergraduates in Abu Dhabi. That became the launch pad for their...

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  • Congratulations, Jan Van Den Brand!

    Published Jan 13, 2021

    We met up with Jan Van Den Brand, Doctoral Student at the Division of Theoretical Computer Science, who has been rewarded the Google PhD Fellowship 2020, and talked about what the fellowship will mean...

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  • What will happen when art and music are increasingly created by AI?

    Photo of a painting depicting a half-figured person.
    The portrait painting “Edmond de Belamy” is seen as a breakthrough for AI created art (image is cropped). (Photo: Obvious)
    Published Dec 21, 2020

    Our computers are taking over a larger part of the creative effort that goes into creating art, articles and music. This brings with it a number of new challenges and also poses ethical, financial, cu...

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  • Collaboration behind unique AI-program

    AI and machinelearning is focus in an unique contract education that KTH and Ericsson developped together. (Photo: Istock)
    Published Dec 21, 2020

    KTH has joined forces with Ericsson to develop a unique contract education program within Machine Learning and AI. Right now, 30 Ericsson engineers around the world are reading the course.

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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Dec 21, 2020

    Who 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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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Nov 20, 2020

    Who 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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  • 'I never imagined working in the music industry'

    Nitin playing the  guitar during his master's presentation.
    Nitin Kulkarni using a guitar to demonstrate an audio processor during his master's thesis presentation. (Photo: Sharan Yagneswar)
    Published Nov 16, 2020

    For two master's students, the Embedded Systems programme at KTH opened up some unexpected doors.

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  • Lightning fast implementation of alumnus´master´s thesis about smart charging of electric vehicles

    Jacob Dalton is sitting at his office in front of his computer, giving a thumb´s up.
    Jacob Dalton wrote a master´s thesis on smart charging of electric vehicles. The solution has been implemented by the electricity company Tibber, where he´s now employed. Photo: Tibber
    Published Sep 01, 2020

    Two years ago Jacob Dalton completed a master´s thesis proposing how household charging of electric vehicles can be used to stabilize the power grid. Now the KTH graduate’s idea has been introduced as...

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  • A new material takes shape – all by itself

    Produce packaging could be one of the first areas where research scientists’ Robotic Matter is used.
    Published Jun 24, 2020

    Remember the T-1000 robot from Terminator 2? It could change form into anything at all, including a human being. The microrobots in the animated feature, Big Hero 6, offer another example of matter th...

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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Jun 15, 2020

    Who 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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