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• Joint forces for a cyber campus

  There is a significant skills shortage in the cyber security area in Sweden. This has led Pontus Johnson, professor at KTH’s Center for Cyber Defense and Information Security, to push for a new cyber campus with several actors, including the Swedish Armed Forces.

• Benoit Baudry on his years as the director of CASTOR

  Benoit Baudry's term as director of the CASTOR Software Research Centre has ended. We have talked about his four years on the job.

• Students chose him as Teacher of the Year

  Carl-Mikael Zetterling, alias Bellman, Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Embedded Systems at KTH, is awarded the THS educational award Teacher of the Year 2022. He is recognised, among other things, for ensuring that the education is motivating and relevant by using innovative lab and teaching methods. Big congratulations, Bellman!

• Meet Emil Björnson, new professor at EECS

  Emil Björnson, newly appointed professor of wireless communication at the Division of communication systems, congratulations on your new position! And congratulations on the IEEE fellow award!

• Research on generating a faster iteration and a more personal voice for digital assistants

  Shivam Mehta, doctoral student at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing, congratulations on winning the Poster exhibition at the EECS Winter Conference.

• Her first poster led to a victory at the EECS Winter Conference

  Han Xue, Division of Electronics and Embedded Systems and winner of the Poster Exhibition at the EECS Winter Conference. Tell us a bit about your research.

• Project from EECS increases road safety

  We talked to Dilian Gurov about his Vinnova funded project "AVerT2: Automated Verification and Testing" – a collaboration between KTH and Scania – which will help increase road safety. Read more about Dilians research and the project in the interview.

• "I'm not done!"

  Carl-Mikael ”Bellman” Zetterling, this year you have been at KTH for 30 years, how did you end up at KTH?

• Congratulations Esteban!

  Esteban won the best PhD thesis award of the Control Systems division of the EEA Club and the GdR MACS from the French CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). We talked to Esteban about his background, his research and his goals for the future.

• Meet the winner of SEB Tech Talent of the year 2022 – Celine Helgesson Hallström

  Curiosity, motivation and a broad mix of subjects gave Celine Helgesson Hallström, student in the master’s programme in Machine Learning, the SEB’s award for Tech Talent of the year 2022.

• Two awards for the Division of Software and Computer Systems

  We talked to Daniel Lundén and Hamid Ghasemirahni who have both recently been awarded for their research.

• They enable safer and more efficient autonomous vehicles

  Truls Nyberg and José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez put their heads together and came up with an algorithm that facilitates safer roads. In their award-winning paper, they show how to safely deploy autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the public space.

• Understanding the inexplicable in AI gave Stefan the award

  Research on understanding the inexplicable reason why AI works so well gave Stefan Neumann, a postdoc in the division of Theoretical Computer Science, the Heinz Zemanek Award. The award is granted biannually for excellent degree dissertations in informatics and related areas.

• Two days on the latest within software

  The software research centre CASTOR organised its second conference on 31 August to 1 September at KTH Nymble. Software researchers, engineers, and students gathered to discuss cutting-edge technology, current software design challenges and software-defined networking.

• Towards complexity-aware-decision-making for robots

  Is it possible to optimise robots' decision-making so that decisions are good and simple? Yes, doctoral student Elis Stefansson's research has shown that. Now, he has won the Outstanding Student Paper Prize 2022 by the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems. This prize is given annually at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

• Jan Scheffel voted Teacher of the year

  "He makes teaching both educational and fun. His teaching motivates and challenges students to take their learning seriously and strive to be good students," his students say.

• Students hacked cars – amazing results

  Imagine someone being able to unlock your car without keys – how would you feel? This proved to be entirely possible as students in Computer Science hacked cars.

• KTH and partners to develop critical parts of next generation 6G networks

  KTH has joined forces with Ericsson and eight other partners to solve one of the key challenges of new 6G networks, predictable end-to-end connections between users, processes, and digital representations in the cyber world.

• KTH's new supercomputer is the fastest in Sweden

  KTH's new supercomputer Dardel is the fastest in Sweden, according to TOP500, which lists the world’s 500 fastest computer facilities. The supercomputer also ranks fifth among the most sustainable,according to the latest Green500 list.

• Scalable Production of Spider Silk Nanowires

  Researchers from KTH have successfully up-scaled the process for producing and releasing spider silk nanowires. They used liquid bridge-induced assembly to create over 12 million of 10 μm long nanowires suspended in solution in about 20 minutes. The nanowires can easily be functionalized by both pre-and post-formation and are successfully used to support cell adhesion as well as integrated into 3D cell aggregates.

• Students given a crash course in disaster medicine

  Packing wounds, carrying injured people, and dealing with theatrical blood are not part of a computer engineer's everyday life. But for the students developing a game to practice tactical medicine, it is. At least for one day.

• The visit to NYC gave him new colleagues and new insights for his research

  A desire to strengthen his knowledge, meet new people, and create new connections for his research led Corrado Capriata to a seven-month research exchange.

• Congratulations Mihhail Matskin!

  Mihhail Matskin, your paper "Locality-Aware Workflow Orchestration for Big Data” written in cooperation with Norwegian colleagues at SINTEF and NTNU has been selected as Best Conference Paper at the MEDES 2021 conference. The paper was written as a part of the Horizon 2020 project - DataCloud. Could you tell us a bit about the project and the paper?

• They won in competition with NASA

  We have talked to Oskar Zetterström and Pilar Castillo-Tapia, authors of the winning paper at the EuCAP 2022, Europe’s flagship conference on antennas and propagation. Their paper had tough competition, with, for example, a paper co-authored by TU Delft and NASA-JPL/Caltech amongst its competitors.

• Here’s why RPL Summer School was a success

  The good reviews of the RPL Summer School are no coincidence. Member of the organising committee, Fereidoon Zangeneh, shares some key insights about the success.

• Awarded by Google for his research on cyber security

  "Our research outcome has the potential to impact millions of users by discovering security vulnerabilities in real-world applications." Musard Balliu has been awarded by the Google Research Scholar Program, focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors. We have talked to him about his research in cyber security and what this means for him.

• GeneDisco Challenge

  We talked to Stefan Bauer who is organising a Machine Learning for Drug Discovery Workshop and GeneDisco Challenge, Friday 29 April.

• From implantable medical devices to spintronics-based systems

  The use of new implantable medical sensors in the body requires new ways of supplying them with energy. Ana Rusu’s group develops smart and energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems towards miniaturized and life-long, power-independent biosensors.

• "The ambition is to strengthen Kista as Europe's ICT cluster"

  The Senseable Stockholm Lab (SSL), a research collaboration between KTH, MIT and the City of Stockholm, has found a new home in the EECS and the new premises in Kista, inaugurated in September. We chatted with the Lab’s new KTH academic director Anne Håkansson.

• 28 ideas that will attract new students

  A new initiative with 28 ready-to-go ideas for high school projects aims to evoke interest in technical studies. Prospective students are encouraged to write about social robots, brain function, data analysis and cyber security.

• This is EECS’ contribution to ForskarFredag

  Friday, 30 September, is the time for ForskarFredag at Vetenskapens Hus. Representants from EECS will be competing in presentation technology, lectures in swallowable microsystems and presenting students' projects created in advanced graphics and electrical engineering.

• How to predict a conversation

  The SIGIDAL best paper award went to Erik Ekstedt and Gabriel Skantze from Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH). Their model learns to predict what will happen in the next two seconds of the conversation. The research improves the interaction between humans and conversational systems, such as social robots or voice assistants.

• How you speak matters – not only what you say

  The Stockholm region competition of the Forskar Grand Prix took place during ForskarFredag on 30 September. Sanne van Waveren from the department of robotics, perception and learning took second place. Read about her experience in communicating with a general audience.

• The Degree Project Fair 2022 – a success

  42 companies, 12 research groups and almost 300 KTH students met at the annual Degree Project Fair at KTH Kista. It was bursting with energy when the students met companies such as ABB, Ericsson and IBM to find suitable degree projects.

• Johan designs next-generation mobile networks

  The former student's most valuable lesson from KTH, his biggest fear as a student, and most importantly; what it’s like being an antenna engineer.

• Award winning algorithm research

  Jan van den Brand is the winner of the 2021 EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award. Read about his algorithm research, the news in this field and which problems he would like to solve in the future

• Earlier diagnosis of cancer with Lucky Loop

  If you have a cyst, you want the doctor to be able to tell you how severe it is. But until now, this has been more complex than it sounds. The new start-up Lucky Loop will help diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier.

• EECS researchers awarded prestigious fellowships

  EECS captures four out of five elevations to IEEE fellow awarded to Swedish academia.

• Researchers performed unique computer simulations

  One of the most extensive data simulations ever was carried out a few weeks ago by researchers at KTH. The test is unique because the research group is the only one in Sweden to have access to Europe's new supercomputer LUMI.

• Reducing global misuse of antibiotics with digital dipsticks

  Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health today, but we still overtreat many infections with antibiotics—urinary tract infections being one of the most common. A digital dipstick created by the KTH spin-off company UTI-lizer can diagnose infections on the spot to help decrease the threat.

• Researchers can help cut down global data center power consumption

  Researchers have discovered a way to reduce power consumption in data centres significantly. They offload computation by converting particular types of commodity Network Interface Cards into processors.

• Finding pathways to better understanding

  Ragnar Thobaben’s areas of expertise are information theory and communication theory. In many ways, research in these areas has laid the foundations for the communication society of today and is now helping to address fresh challenges in emerging areas.

• Nobel in Africa discusses predictability in Science

  The Nobel Symposium “Predictability in Science in the age of AI” brings together leading experts in AI and sciences to discuss and explore various issues, including the limits of the Big Data approach.

• Campus art installation captures the richness of basic software actions

  Art can be a powerful projector of breakthrough science. During the 2022 Nobel Week Lights, an annual lights festival taking place during the Nobel Week, KTH launched an artwork called un|fold, which captures the richness of a simple software action.

• Learning algorithms is an ever-increasing part of modern engineering

  Learning algorithms have already shown great promise to deliver high-performing solutions to complex dynamic problems ranging from walking robots to games. They are set to play an ever-increasing role in modern safety-critical infrastructure such as smart grids and intelligent transportation. However, their emergence in safety-critical systems is not without problems.

• KTH sound experts add new dimension to the understanding of our universe

  New initiative helps astronomers not only to observe the universe, but also to listen to it.

• Research on transitioning to renewable energy sources wins SER Junior Prize

  Analysing the challenges in the transition from conventional to renewable energy sources gave Stefan Stankovic, a doctoral student at KTH, the SER Junior Prize.

• "A unique research environment"

  The Electrum lab in Kista enables research in microelectromechanical systems, known as MEMS, to grow exponentially.

• "Without the Electrum lab, we would never have been able to start"

  The increasing electrification of various parts of our society goes far beyond securing electricity supplies. It is also about minimising losses and developing an infrastructure that, among other things, helps our electric cars to be charged faster.

• Pontus Johnson on Tech50 list

  Pontus Johnson, Professor at the Centre for Cyber Defence and Information Security, has made Tech50's list of the most influential people in tech in 2023.

• Improved wireless communication can boost launch of autonomous vehicles

  Collaboration with Princeton University merges machine learning with cellular networks, making cars safer and more energy efficient. Together with experts in machine learning and wireless communication, KTH postdoc José Mairton Barros Da Silva Júnior work on a project that will accelerate the development of safe and reliable autonomous vehicles.

• Event to attract the space industry

  Interest in space research is growing, and in April, KTH and Visit Kista are organising "Space Rendezvous", an event that they hope will attract many people. ”The hope is that students will become aware of the space industry in Sweden”, says Carl-Mikael Zetterling, deputy director of KTH's space centre.

• Swedish Microwave Days offers unique possibilities

  The Swedish Microwave Days will be an excellent opportunity for anyone interested to learn more about the latest developments in microwave, millimeter wave, THz or antenna technology. Professor Oscar Quevedo-Teruel looks forward to networking opportunities between academia and the microwave and antenna industry.

• New tool reduces static Java code violations

  SORALD fixes rule violations raised by SonarQube, one of the most popular static code analysers used by developers.

• Four codes that can change the future of energy use and cancer treatments

  Over the next four years, researchers at KTH will optimize four codes that can have significant impact on global energy use and the treatment of cancer patients. But competition is fierce between researchers in Europe, Japan, China and the US.

• Emerging digital platforms force waste management rethink

  Crowd-sourced waste disposal services push the legal and ethical boundaries on who should take care of our waste.

• Prize-winning research will develop the energy markets of the future

  Maximising social welfare and further integrating renewable energy sources into the energy system. This is the potential of two capacity calculation methods primarily focusing on facilitating the cross-border integration of electricity trading.

• Researchers on the transformation towards sustainable energy

  Can economic growth be sustainable, is the transition to a fossil-free future achievable and what is the biggest change researchers want to see by 2040? These are some of the questions that were answered at the KTH Energy Dialogue.

• The future of hydroelectric power

  Abolfazl Khodadadi's research on the planning and operation of hydropower plants resulted in winning a best paper award. Ultimately, the doctoral student aims to ensure secure and affordable energy supplies to EU citizens.

• Energy solution in sight for remote regions

  New solution can achieve sustainable electricity supply both remote regions and citiies. A self-sustaining sustainable solution for energy in Arctic Communities has been devised by Qianwen Xu, Assistant Professor of Electric Power Engineering. The solution has won the Nordic Energy Challenge 2022 and can improve sustainable electricity supply in remote regions.