Department of Information Technology

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Department of Information Technology

About 10% of the Faculty of Science and TechnologyAbout 4% of the University

Scientific Computing

Short Facts• 275 employees 120 faculty, including 30 full professors of

which several have industrial background and connections to the industry

• 110 PhD students

• 24 administrator and 11 system administrators

• 162 PhD and 122 Licentiate degrees 1999-2013

• Turnover 2013: 230 MSEK, (1/3 teaching, 2/3 research)

Dec 2013

The IT Department is• The fourth largest department at Uppsala University

• The most complete department:– in Uppsala (balance between education and research)– in Sweden (unice coverage of IT)

Undergraduate Education• 4000 students each year (about 1000 full time students)

• Participation in about 30 study programs, a total of 150 courses starts per academic year.

• Single subject courses, distance courses, summer courses and web based courses.

• Everything from introductory courses for beginners to specialist courses.

• 200 computer work stations for the students.

• The Department received “The Undergraduate Education Department of the Year” Award 2009 by the Student Union.

• Six teachers at the department have received the ”Pedagogical Award” (Pedagogiska priset) given by Uppsala University.

Research• Computer Systems

• Computing Science

• Scientific Computing

• Systems and Control

• Visual Information and Interaction

• Computing Education Research

The IT Department hosts:• Research Centres

– UPMARC (Uppsala Programming for Multicore Architectures) 2008-2018, a Linnaeus center funded by the Swedish Research Council. Total budget: 100 million SEK.

– WISENET (Uppsala Center for Wireless Sensor Networks) 2007-2016. A center of Excellence funded by Vinnova. Total budget: 210 million SEK.

– eSSENCE – a national collaboration in e-science. 26 MSEK/year.• SNIC (Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing), is under the

Swedish Science Council a metacentre whose task is to coordinate and develop high end computing capacity for Swedish research.

• UPPMAX (Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science), which is Uppsala University's center for high performance computing.

Citations from external evaluations (KoF07 & KoF11)

• The friendly atmosphere and the cohesiveness that prevails at the Information Technology Department have been mentioned by several members. The panel believes that such friendly atmosphere is indeed a valuable and rather unique asset that undoubtedly contributes to the quality of the work performed at the department.

• ... world-class quality ... world leading ... internationally recognized

Impact• Our graduated students and PhDs are much appreciated in industry

and academia.

• Several high tech spin-offs: Skype, Acumem, Trade Extensions, OptiMobile, Wisenet Holding

• Collaboration with several major Swedish companies: Ericsson, ABB, Scania, Volvo…

• Future systems for train traffic control in Sweden is based on HCI research.

• Extensive academic collaboration nationally and internationally.

Professors, September 2012

Erik HagerstenComputer

Architecture

Tore RischDatabase

Technology

Torsten SöderströmAutomatic Control

Abdulla ParoshComputer Systems

Joachim ParrowComputing Science

Arne AnderssonComputing Science

Bengt SandbladHuman-Computer

Interaction

Torbjörn WigrenAutomatic Control

Wang YiReal-Time Systems

Ewert BengtssonImage Analysis

Per GunningbergData Communication

Bengt JonssonComputer Systems

Micael ThunéScientific Computing

Pierre FlenerComputing Science

Peter StoicaSystem Modelling

IordanisKavathatzopoulosHuman-ComputerInteraction

Stefan SeipelComputer Graphics

Bengt CarlssonAutomatic Control

Sverker HolmgrenScientific Computing

Ingrid CarlbomComputer Graphics

Gunilla KreissNumerical Analysis

Håkan LanshammarAutomatic Control

& Systems Analysis

Per LötstedtNumerical Analysis

Alexander Medvedev

Automatic Control

Stefanos KaxirasComputer

Architecture

Thiemo VoigtWireless Sensor

Networks

Ingela Nyström Visualization

Gunilla BorgeforsImage Analysis