Research areas

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science
• Computer and Information Security
• Databases and Web Information Systems
• Dependable Distributed Systems
• Embedded and Real-Time Systems
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Software Engineering and Theory
• Statistics

Artificial Intelligence

Topics: Robotics, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Automated Planning, Intelligent Systems, Natural language processing / Computational linguistics, Electronic Publishing

Growth Areas: Machine Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Perception and Sensors, Ground Robotics, Mixed Initiative Systems, Natural Language Based Text and Content Mining

Active Research Faculty: Patrick Doherty, Erik Sandewall, Andrzej Szalas, Alexander Kleiner, Jonas Kvarnström, Lars Ahrenberg, Arne Jönsson, Magnus Merkel, Patrick Lambrix

Labs: KPLAB, UAVTech, CASL, ALG, NLPLAB, IISLAB

Cognitive Science

Topics: Cognitive Systems, Cognition and Communication

Growth Areas: Social and emotional responses to voice technology, Situated and distributed cognition

Active Research Faculty: Nils Dahlbäck, Agneta Gulz, Eva Blomqvist, Rita Kovordányi, Henrik Eriksson, Magnus Bång

Labs: MDALAB, NLPLAB

Computer and Information Security

Topics: Software security, Network security, Communications security, E-service security, Critical infrastructures

Growth Areas: User-centred security, Cybercrime prevention

Active Research Faculty: Nahid Shahmehri, Germano Caronni, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Niklas Carlsson

Labs: IISLAB, RTSLAB

Databases and Web Information Systems

Topics: XML databases, Biomedical databases, Scientific Workflows, Data Integration, Semantic Web, Geographical Informations Systems

Growth Areas: Text and data mining

Active Research Faculty: Patrick Lambrix, Fang Wei-Kleiner, José Pena, Juliana Freire

Labs: IISLAB, TCSLAB,

Dependable Distributed Systems

Topics:Fault-tolerant systems, System availability and integrity, Wireless and adhoc networks, Safety-critical systems, Delay-tolerant networks

Growth Areas: Green computing, Green networking

Active Research Faculty: Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Mikael Asplund, Zebo Peng, Petru Eles, Erik Larsson, Unmesh Dutta Bordoloi, Nahid Shahmehri, Mariam Kamkar

Labs: RTSLAB, ESLAB, IISLAB, PELAB

Embedded and Real-Time Systems

Topics: Electronics design automation, Hardware/software Codesign, Hardware test technology, Real-time systems, Modelling and verification, Diagnosis

Growth Areas: SoC test technology, Analysis and optimization of real-time systems

Active Research Faculty: Zebo Peng, Petru Eles, Erik Larsson, Unmesh Dutta Bordoloi, Ahmed Rezine, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Mikael Asplund

Labs: ESLAB, RTSLAB

Human-Computer Interaction

Topics:Interaction design, Service design, Usable system acquisition, Interaction technology, Computer supported cooperative work, Natural language dialogue systems, Multimodal interaction, Ubiquitous computing, Public information systems and electronic markets

Growth Areas: User-driven innovation

Active Research Faculty: Henrik Eriksson, Vivian Vimarlund, Erik Berglund, Magnus Bång, Stefan Holmlid, Mattias Arvola, Johan Åberg, Arne Jönsson, Nils Dahlbäck

Labs: MDALAB, NLPLAB

Software Engineering and Theory

Topics: Programming languages and environments, Compiler technology, Software process, Requirements engineering, Algorithms and complexity, Parallel computing

Growth Areas: Model-driven development, Combinatorial optimization, Constraint technology

Active Research Faculty: Peter Fritzson, Kristian Sandahl, Christoph Kessler, Dag Fritzson, Mariam Kamkar, Peter Bunus, David Broman, Ulf Nilsson, Peter Jonsson, Wlodzimierz Drabent, Christer Bäckström, Ahmed Rezine, Henrik Eriksson, Nahid Shahmehri

Labs: PELAB, TCSLAB, MDALAB, IISLAB

Statistics

Topics: Environmetrics, Forensic inference, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics, Econometrics

Growth Areas: Data mining

Active Research Faculty: Mattias Villani, Anders Grimvall, Anders Nordgaard, Oleg Sysoev, José Pena

Labs: STATISTICS