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Staff at Computing Science

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Adwitiya Mandal
Ahmad Kalash
Alexandre Bartel

Research in software engineering and computer security. Member of the Research Management Group Software at The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP).

Algot Heimerson
Ana Paiva
Anders Backman

Been active in the computer graphics/virtual reality area since 1998. Part time employed as a teacher at the department. Rest of the time I spend at Algoryx, a company I was part of starting 2007.

Andreas Brännström

I am studying ways for artificial intelligent systems to understand human behavior in order to improve strategic decision-making in their interactions with humans.

Anindya Sundar Das

My research focuses on building robust, explainable machine learning (ML) models for anomaly detection to ensure trustworthiness and reliability of ML models depolyed in critical applications.

Anna Jonsson

Programme coordinator for the master of science programme in computing science and engineering.

I study how to use formal languages (e.g. programming languages) to model natural language.

Anna Lindström

Project administrator for TAIGA since April 2024

Annakarin Resoluth
Anne-Lie Persson
Arash Goodarzi
Arka Ghosh

A WASP doctoral student and knowledge engineer in the research group "AI for data management" at the Department of Computing Science led by Prof. Dr. Diego Calvanese.

Arman Shamsgovara
Arthur Stenlund
Arvid Horned
Arzu Güneysu

Human-Computer Interaction in healthcare and education. Adaptive Technology-Enhanced Therapy, Co-Design, Autism, Gamification, Neurodevelopmental Difficulties, Inclusive Design, Special Education.

Axel Eriksson
Ayush Kumar Varshney

I am a PhD scholar in the department of Computing Sciences, Umeå University. I am a member of NAUSICA group which focuses on privacy preserving AI algorithms.

Bodil Formark

Currently, I work in the Department of Computing Science. 

Bruno Kreyssig
Carl Löfqvist
Carl C Kjelgaard Mikkelsen

Please contact me only using my email address at the Department of Computing Science: spock@cs.umu.se

Catherine Jo

Program Coordinator, Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society

Cem Okulmus

Research on database theory, ontology-based data access and temporal data. WASP Postdoc at the DAISY cluster.

Chanh Le Tan Nguyen
Charles Meyers
Claire Cui Bartel
Cristian Klein

Cloud architect, speaker and researcher. Father of two. Piano torturer.

Disi Lin
Divya Baura
Eddie Wadbro
Elin Kvist

Associate professor in Sociology

 
Elin Larsson
Ellinor Hansson

Study administrator at the Department of Computing Science

Emil Häglund
Ennie Boberg
Eren Yildiz

I'm working on a socially aware chatbot AI which is able to interact with people naturally like humans do

Erik Elmroth

Research in autonomous distributed systems, cloud, and edge computing. Appointments include the Executive Committee of WASP and the eSSENCE management group. See also https://people.cs.umu.se/elmroth

Esteban Guerrero Rosero

I am an Associate Professor in Social-aware Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science. I focus on Software Agents, KR, and Non-Monotonic Reasoning.

Eunil Seo

27+ years of experience in networking, machine learning, 17 patents, published in IEEE IoT Journal, with innovations like CCFRL and SDN techniques.

Fatemeh Sadjadi
Francisco López Sánchez

My research interests encompass linear algebra, algorithm parallelisation, signal processing and proper hardware exploitation, whilst providing high-level software functionalities.

 

Frank Dignum

I'm a Professor, leading a research group in the field of socially conscious AI. We develop models that can provide insights into how society can respond to political changes or natural disasters.

Frank Drewes

My research interests are formal and natural languages and their analysis, also in combination with other modalities such as images and video, for the automatic analysis of media content.

Fredrik Georgsson

Quality developer. Member of the Board of Directors for SEFI (Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs).

Gabriel Morberg
Gustaf Elf Andersson
Gustav Grund Pihlgren

Post doctoral researcher in the field of Explainable AI with focus on computer vision.

Gustav Johansson
Hanna Nordin

Communications Officer at the research program The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS)

Hantang Zhang
Harrison Nobis
Heini Laitinen
Helena Lindgren

Researches and educates in the field where systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) need to collaborate with humans. Research spans basic research in AI to applications improving health.

Helena Smith
Henrik Björklund

I work on methods for detecting and mitigating bias in language processing systems, such as, e.g., ChatGPT, and also with foundational research on formal languages.

Henry Lopez Vega

Researching Digital/AI Transformation, Innov. Ecosystems, Global Strategy

Co-ordinator of the AI seminars at the Centre for Transdisciplinary AI and the Professional Programme in Service Management

Igor Ryazanov
Ileet Malla
Isak Öhman
Jacob Lindgren
Jakob Gottfridsson
Jan Erik Moström

Teacher, Director of Studies, some research about Computer Science Education, more info at people.cs.umu.se/jem

Javad Forough
Jennifer Stenlund
Jenny Källström

Financial Officer WASP-HS

Jingwen Cai
Johan Eliasson

Teaches basic programming, datastructures and algorithms, object orientation, and mobile app development. SACO work place reprecentative

Johan Malmberg
Johan Tordsson

Researching distributed systems and autonomics. Previous topics include grids, clouds, data centers, and virtualization technology. Current focus are microservices and cloud native.

Johanna Björklund

I work with basic research in formal language theory and machine learning as well as applied research in semantic parsing of multimodal data.

Jonas Öberg
Juan Carlos Nieves Sanchez

Associate professor (Docent) in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Programme Director of the MSc programme in AI. Member of the council for Doctoral Education in Computer Science.

Julian Alfredo Mendez

I am a PhD candidate in the Responsible Artificial Intelligence group at the Department of Computing Science. I have experience in Knowledge Representation and Description Logics.

Kaan Kilic

Ph.D. student in the Interactive and Intelligent Systems research group. Working on employing socially intelligent systems for managing stress and improving emotional wellbeing.

Kai-Florian Richter

research on cognitive aspects of HCI, teaching in Cognitive Science; head of Spatial Cognitive Engineering group; assistant head of department & director of studies for PhD education

Kalle Vigren
Karlo Palenzuela
Kary Främling

Professor in data science, with emphasis in data analysis and machine learning. Head of explainable AI (XAI) team.
WASP Professor (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program)

Lars Karlsson

I am assistant head of department with responsibility for education and conduct research on efficient algorithms for matrix and tensor computations.

Lars Norqvist

Senior lecturer and deputy head of the unit at the Centre for Principal Development (CPD), Department of Political sciences

Leila Methnani
Lena Palmquist

I mainly work as a student counsellor for the Master of Science in Engineering program: specialisation in Interaction Technology and Design. I am also responsible for book purchases at the department.

Lena Strobl
Lenita Lindblom
Lennart Edblom

EU advisor, supports researchers with H2020 and HE applications. Project manager. 

Lennart Steinvall

New as Study Coordinator for the Bachelor Program in Computer Science and the Masters in CS and AI as well as free courses. Also involved as Teaching with some lectures, tutoring and assignments.

Lidia Kidane
Lili Jiang

Research focus on fusing data science and artificial intelligence, AI trustworthiness (e.g., privacy, fairness).  Programme Director of the MSc programme in Computing Science. 

Lina Persson

Administrator for WASP-HS – The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society

Linda Bresäter

I work on strengthening the relationship between students and teachers/researchers with the business community and the public sector.

Linus Svedberg
Loïs Vanhée

Researcher & teacher. TAIGA co-director

Primary focus: Anxiety-Sensitive Artificial Intelligence

General interests: simulation, responsible AI, pedagogy and transdisciplinarity

Madeleine Blusi

Research about artificiell intelligens  in healthcare, focus on personalisation, participation and methods for co-creation.

Mahdi Abbasi
Maja Fjaestad
Mariam Taha

I’m a PhD student in NAUSICA  group. I am studying the interaction between models spaces and databases spaces and its impact on model selection  and privacy  preserving  in data mining and  ML .

Marie Nordström
Marie Nyberg
Martin Berggren

Scientific Computing, particularly Computational Design Optimization, combining computer simulation and numerical optimization. Typical applications: antennas, microwave devices, loudspeakers.

Martin Berglund

Researcher in the areas of fundamental algorithms, automata theory, and the theory of machine learning. Teaches courses in this area.

Martin Liljestrand
Mattias Brännström
Mattias Åsander

Systems administrator, Linux/Windows systems

Michael Minock

Research Interests: Natural Language Interfaces, Knowledge Representation and Databases.
Teaching Interests: Databases, AI, Logic, LLMs, Algorithms, Thesis Supervision.

Mikael Lindbäck

Administrative manager with responsibilities for the support functions at the Department of Computing Science.

Miles Lundqvist
Monowar Bhuyan

WASP Assistant Professor (biträdande universitetslektor), leading Cyber Analytics and Learning Group within ADSLab, https://cloudresearch.org/.

Nayereh Rasouli
Niclas Börlin
Niklas Hörnblad

I work as a project assistant for Paolo Bientinesi.

Nina Khairova

I am a professor in Computational Linguistics. The research interests cover computational linguistics, Machine Learning for Text Mining, misinformation detection, LLM, and responsible AI.

Noradin Hagi Shire
Obaidullah Zaland
Ola Ringdahl

Research focuses on agricultural and forestry robotics: novel AI algorithms, machine learning algorithms, and software architectures.

Director of the MSc programme in AI. Teaching a number of courses.

Oliver Larsson

Researching autonomous distributed systems with a focus on memory subsystem optimization in cloud native environments. See also https://larssonoliver.com

Pan Lu
E-mail
pan.lu@umu.se

Postdoctoral fellow, research interests in computational electromagnetics, topology optimization, microwave imaging, finite difference time domain.

Paolo Bientinesi

Professor in High-Performance Computing. Interests: automatic generation of algorithms and code, numerical linear algebra, tensor operations, performance prediction, computer music.

Patrik Eklund

I am professor in computer science with a background in mathematics (algebra, logic, topology).

Paul Townend

Head of Green Distributed Computing group, Scientific Coordinator for Horizon Europe COGNIT, Co-PI to WASP WARA-Ops, Research Leader in ADSLab, member of WASP Graduate School Management.

Per Sehlstedt
Per-Olov Östberg

I'm one of the research leaders in the Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab, ADSLab, a research environment focused on resource management for distributed cloud environments.

Pim Kerkhoven
Polina Kurtser

Postdoctoral associate with specialization in ML and Robotics. Skilled in Medical Devices, Agricultural Robotics and AI.

Quan Nguyen
Rohail Gulbaz
Roman Iakymchuk

I conduct research on numerically reliable and sustainable algorithmic solutions and their application. I teach scientific computing, parallel programming, and optimization

Sabine Houy
Saloni Kwatra

I am a WASP-AI Doctoral student and a member of the research group NAUSICA: PrivAcy-AWare traNSparent deCIsions group. Mainly, I focus on Privacy-aware Federated Machine Learning.

Sargam Gupta

PhD student 

Simon Cederfjärd
Sonakshi Garg
Stefan Johansson

Associate professor at the Department of Computing Science and Curiosum science center.
Deputy head of department at the Computing Science department.

Sudipta Paul

I am a Wasp-AI PhD student. A part of the Nausica research group. My broad research topic is "Decentralized privacy across federated learning environment". 

Suna Bensch

I am an Associate Professor, programme director for the Bachelor programme in Computer Science, and the international coordinator at the Computing Science department. 

 

Sz-Ting Tzeng
Tatyana Sarayeva

AI Policy Lab Coordinator; EU Advisor, supports researchers with HEU applications

Themis Dimitra Xanthopoulou

Postdoctoral Research in the AI Policy Lab 
Knowledge Integrator across disciplines and between research and policy
I research under participatory approaches and use modeling as my main tool

Thomas Hellström

I do research on robotics and artificial intelligence, AI.

Timotheus Kampik

I research and teach intelligent reasoning and decision-making.

Tomas Forsman

Systems engineer, server operations, Linux

Tomas Sjöström
Tommy Löfstedt

Docent and associate professor in computing science. Doing research in machine learning and computer vision, often with applications in medical image analysis or the life sciences.

Ture Goldkuhl
Veronica Pålsson

Coordinator and communications officer at TAIGA - Centre for Transdisciplinary AI, a cross-faculty centre at Umeå University.

Vicenç Torra

I am working on artificial intelligence. Main research topics include data privacy, approximate reasoning, decision making.

Victoria Skeidsvoll

I am a journalist and copywriter who works strategically to communicate our education and research in different ways and through several channels. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

Virginia Dignum

I am a professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence and the Director of the AI Policy Lab. 

I am member of the UN High Level Advisory Body on AI and senior advisor to the Wallenberg Foundations.

 

Willeke Martens
Willy Själin
Xuan-Son Vu

Research interests: trustworthy ML/DL, graph learning in NLP/multimodal data. Co-authored different neural models - e.g., ppRNN (faster version of RNN), MGTN (modular), SGTN (privacy-preseving).

Yangyang Wen
Yanxiang Chen

Research engineer at the Department of Computing Science.

My research interests: HPC (high-performance computing), numerical algorithms, parallel programming.

Yifan Wu
Yoshihisa Kashima
Zahoor Ul Islam

PhD Student at the Department of computing science. Interests: Responsible artificial intelligence, software engineering models, methods and tools for ethical artificial intelligent systems.

Zahra Kharaghani

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Computing Science, working on incremental federated machine learning.

Zhou Zhou
Zoe Falomir

WASP Associate Professor at the Computing Science Department