School management goes on tour among the divisions

Published Feb 12, 2025

Through a series of visits to all EECS divisions, the school management wants to get an insight into the diversity of research going and get to know all the environments at the school. See pictures from the tour!

In October 2024, the management kicked off with a visit to the division of Information Science and Engineering who presented their research areas. The visit also included an introduction to R1 and TECoSA, a Vinnova centre where several divisions are involved. TECoSA focuses on ‘Edge computing’, faster processing of information between local devices and the cloud.

Next to visit was the division of Robotics, Perception and Learning. On 28 January Lina Bertling Tjernberg and Henrik Artman were introduced to their research in computer vision, robotics and machine learning in addition to visiting lab environments such as the Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL), the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre (SMaRC) and the Interaction and Robotics lab.

Valuable input from all divisions

On 5 February the trip continued to the division of Software and Computer Systems who provided an introduction to the department's work in areas such as data analysis, software engineering and computer architecture. The meeting was also attended by head of school Ann Lantz and Ambra Sannino, industry representative on the faculty board and head of research at Vattenfall. Naturally, the move to the KTH Campus was also an important topic.

All school divisions will be visited. This will give an insight into the ongoing research work and what critical issues they are working on. It will be valuable input to the management of the strategic research support from the EECS School, supporting the development of new mentoring programmes, identify calls for research funding, faculty positions and new collaborations between departments and research groups.

“These visits puts a focus on our research. Through this tour, I want to get an overview of all our activities at the school. Each visit brings insight into ongoing research, and starts dialogues to strengthen our collaboration going forward. I have a vision that we can strengthen our research through greater collaboration based on the many excellent works that are taking place today,” says Bertling Tjernberg.

“Visits to our various research groups provide an opportunity to build up knowledge about our different research and get to know various research environments at the school. I get a glimpse of what is going on at the different research groups which creates a ground for conversations about research ideas and collaborations,” says Bertling Tjernberg.