WEBINAR ABOUT WASP-AS INDUSTRIAL PHD STUDENT CALL KARL-ERIK ÅRZÉN, CHAIR OF WASP PMG - WASP-SWEDEN.ORG
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Webinar about WASP-AS
industrial PhD student call
Karl-Erik Årzén, Chair of WASP PMG
Practicalities Program • 45 minutes presentation • Questions and answers Please mute your microphones and turn off your cameras during the presentation If you have a question please announce that by typing a chat message (the actual question need not be entered) During the Q&A session the questions will be answered in the order from the chat The slides and a recording of the webinar will be made available on wasp-sweden.org shortly
Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems
and Software Program
Today’s program
• General presentation of WASP
• Presentation of the call for industrial PhD students
• Q&A
Background Why? Something is happening: Self-Driving cars, Watson, AlphaGo, Alpha Zero (Schack), Google Translate, Drones, Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet Consortium, …
WASP
Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program
Largest individual research program in Sweden ever
• 3.5 billion SEK (more than $ 400 million) for 11 years
Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation, Universities, Industry
Vision - Excellent research and competence in artificial
intelligence, autonomous systems and software for the
benefit of Swedish industry. (The word “industry” in its English
meaning, for example including the financial industry.)
Mission - Build a world leading platform for academic
research that interacts with leading companies in Sweden to
develop knowledge and competence for the future.
WASP Board Alf Isaksson
ABB AB, Global Research
Manager Control
Mille Millnert Sara Mazur
Linköping University Vice Chair WASP
Chair WASP
Anders Palmqvist
Chalmers, Vice President
Pontus de Laval Nicolas Moch
Saab AB, CTO SEB AB, Head of Information,
Strategy & Architecture Viktor Öwall
LTH , Dean
Annika Stensson-Trigell Ulf Nilsson
KTH, Vice President Linköping University, Dean
Sara Sjöstedt de Luna
UmU, Pro dean
WASP Main Instruments A research program with the best researchers in the field. Recruitment of both leading and young researchers. (Nine in place; more than 50 in total) A graduate school in close interaction with Swedish industry. (At least 350 PhD with at least 100 industrial PhDs) Arenas for research and demonstration in collaboration with industry and other parties. Internationalization; Stanford, Berkeley, NTU
Structure of Research Program
Original WASP research ambitions stand
• A number of industrially motivated visions
• A number of scientific trends
Structure of Research Program To manage the complexity, System-of-Systems has to have a certain level of autonomy, i.e., be self-organizing and capable of independent decision making Now focus on starting and integrating AI in research and all other aspects of WASP.
Organization
WASP
Lars Nielsen
WASP-AI WASP-AS
Karl-Erik Årzén
WASP-AI/MLX WASP-AI/MATH
Danica Kragic Johan HåstadParticipating universities
WASP WASP-AI
Five member universities
Within WASP-AI two
partly: UmU UmU
• ÖrU in AI
• UU in Math
UU
KTH ÖrU KTH
Additional individual CTH LiU CTH LiU
researchers
LU LUWASP-AS • Wallenberg Autonomous Systems and Software program • The ”original WASP” • Focus on autonomous systems including enabling technologies • Software • Software for autonomous systems • Autonomous software development • AI and ML as enabling technologies for autonomous systems
Program Management Group
Karl-Erik Årzén, Professor in Automatic Control, Lund
University - chair
Ivica Crnkovic, Professor in Software Engineering,
Director Area of Advance ICT, Chalmers University of
Technology
Bo Wahlberg, Professor of the Chair of Automatic
Control, KTH
Anders Ynnerman, Professor of scientific visualization
and Head of the Division of Media and Information
Technology, Linköping UniversityWASP-AS Clusters • Software Engineering for Smart Systems • Coordinator: Jan Bosch, Chalmers • Autonomous Clouds and Networks • Coordinator: Erik Elmroth, Umeå University • Interaction and Communication with Sensor- Rich Autonomous Agents • Coordinator: Jonas Unger, Linköping University • Perception and Learning in Interactive Autonomous Systems • Coordinator: Kalle Åström, Lund University
WASP-AS Clusters
• Smart Localization Systems
• Coordinator: Fredrik Gustafsson, Linköping
University
• Large Scale Optimization and Control
• Coordinator: Mikael Johansson, KTH
• Automated Transport Systems
• Coordinator: Bo Wahlberg, KTH
• Security for Autonomous Systems
• Coordinator: Sonja Buchegger, KTHWASP-AS Clusters • Software Technology for Autonomous Systems • Coordinator: Martin Monperrus, KTH • AI and Machine Learning for Autonomous Systems • Coordinator: Helena Lindgren, UmU • Open also for WASP-AI students
WASP Main Instruments A research program with the best researchers in the field. Recruitment of both leading and young researchers. (Nine in place; more than 50 in total) A graduate school in close interaction with Swedish industry. (At least 350 PhD with at least 100 industrial PhDs) Arenas for research and demonstration in collaboration with industry and other parties. Internationalization; Stanford, Berkeley, NTU
Strategic Recruitments
Plan to recruit more than 50 new professors on different
levels
• 18 in original WASP donation, i.e. in WASP-AS
• 14+14=28 in WASP-AI donation
• 5 Wallenberg Chair in AI
Eight recruitments in place
• Clear strengthening of Software in Sweden
• Will now strengthen AI and Machine LearningWASP First recruitments
Benoit Baudry
Professor in Software Technology at KTH since 1st of August 2017. He was
research scientist at INRIA since 2004 and led the DiverSE research group since
2013. His research focuses on software design, testing and analysis, with
current emphasis on the principles of diversity emergence in software
applications. He received his PhD from the University of Rennes in 2000. His
research is performed in tight collaborations with industry (Orange, Thales,
ATOS) and with other research groups within EU projects. He has led two EU
projects in the area of software technologies.
Jeff Yan
Professor in Cyber Security at Linköping University since 1st of August 2017.
He was previously professor at Lancaster University, England. His research
looks into security, privacy, cybercrime and forensics. He won the first SOUPS
Impact Award in the USA, which is presented every three years, recognising a
paper that has had a significant impact on usable security and privacy research
and practice. His team was a finalist for a Times Higher Education award in the
category of the Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year in the UK.
He received his PhD in cyber security from Cambridge, England.WASP First recruitments
Martin Monperrus
Professor in Software Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology since
1st of August 2017. Until 2017, he was associate professor at the University of
Lille (France) and a member of INRIA's research group SPIRALS. His research
deals with automatic program repair, self-healing software, and antifragility. In
2008-2011, he was research associate at Darmstadt University of Technology
(Germany). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Rennes (France) in
2008.
Christoph Reichenbach
Senior lecturer (Associate Professor) in Software Engineering at Lund
University from 16th October 2017. He served as Junior Professor for Software
Engineering and Programming Languages at Goethe University Frankfurt from
Dec. 2012 to March 2016, and as postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst (2009-2011). His current research interests are in
source code re-use, domain-specific languages, and software defect detection.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2010. He
has also worked as Software Engineer at Google's Search Quality Division in
Mountain View (2011-2012) and as independent software quality consultant.WASP First recruitments
Kary Främling
Professor in Data Science at Umeå University from November 2017. Kary has
a background as Professor of Practice, Department of Computer Science at
Aalto University. He is the Founder and Head of the team Adaptive Systems of
Intelligent Agents. The research focuses on distributed intelligence in the
Internet of Things context, with first industrial implementations in 2001. He
received PhD from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon in 1996. He
has done joint projects with tens of industrial companies globally and is the
Founder of two companies.
Carl-Johan Seger
Research Professor in Computer Science at Chalmers from September 2017.
He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of
Waterloo, Canada, in 1988. After an academic career at Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of British Columbia, he joined Intel in 1995
where he lead the development and wide deployment of formal verification
inside Intel. He retired as a Senior Principal Engineer in 2016. He was a visiting
fellow at Balliol College, Oxford in 2006-2007.WASP First recruitments
Volker Krüger
Professor in Computer Science, especially Robotic Systems at Lund University
from August 2018. Volker has a background as Professor MSO, Head of the
Robotics Vision and Machine Intelligence (RVMI) Lab, Aalborg University
Campus Copenhagen. He received his PhD from University of Kiel in 2001. The
research focuses on autonomous robotic systems involving vision and learning.
He has been a visiting professor at Italian Institute of Technology, Genova.WASP New AI Faculty
Virginia Dignum
Professor in artificial intelligence with focus on social and ethical AI at Umeå
University from September 2018. Previously Virginia was Associate Professor
at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of
Technology. She received a PhD in 2004 from the Utrecht University, on A
Model for Organizational Interaction. Prior to her PhD, she worked for more
than 12 years in consultancy and system development in the areas of expert
systems and knowledge management.
Christopher Zach
Research professor in the group Computer vision and medical image analysis
at Chalmers University of Technology since October 1st 2018. His main
research interests are 3D reconstruction from images and 3D image
understanding. Further, he conducts research in efficient and real-time
methods for computer vision and machine learning. He was previously a
principal research scientist at the Computer Vision Group, Toshiba Research
Europe, Cambridge, UK. He holds a Ph.D. from 2007 in Computer Science from
Technische University Graz, Graz, Austria and has served as a postdoctoral
fellow at MSR Cambridge, ETH Zurich and University of North Carolina.WASP Main Instruments A research program with the best researchers in the field. Recruitment of both leading and young researchers. (Nine in place; more than 50 in total) A graduate school in close interaction with Swedish industry. (At least 350 PhD with at least 100 industrial PhDs) Arenas for research and demonstration in collaboration with industry and other parties. Internationalization; Stanford, Berkeley, NTU
PhD Student Courses • A PhD education consists of two parts: • Research that leads to a PhD thesis • PhD Courses • Typically around 90 credits worth of courses (1.5 years full time) • The majority of the courses are given by the local department or university • Some of them are given by the WASP graduate school • 25-27 credits, corresponding to 4-5 courses
Graduate School
WASP
WASP-AI WASP-AS
• One graduate school with two tracksGraduate School Joint effort to raise knowledge level in Sweden in interaction with Swedish industry. Very positive interest and response First WASP-AS batch; 62 PhD students started 2016 • 24 university PhD students • 23 industrial PhD students • 15 affiliated PhD students Second WASP-AS batch PhD students; 52 started 2018 • 25 university PhD students • 21 industrial PhD students • 6 affiliated PhD students
Graduate School
First WASP-AI batch: 62 PhD students to start 2019
• 37 university PhD students (33 in place)
• 20 AI/MLX
• 17 AI/Math
• 14 industrial PhD students
• 11 affiliated PhD students
Third WASP-AS batch: 50-60 students to start 2020
• 22 industrial PhD students – this call
• 20-25 university PhD students
• Affiliated PhD studentsIndustrial PhD students • Currently 59 PhD students from 27 different industries • Large involvement • Ericsson 9 • Saab 8 • Zenuity 6 • ABB 5 • Astra Zeneca 3 • 16 industries have only one PhD student each
WASP-AS Track • Autonomous Systems I • Sensing and Perception • Control and Decision Making • Autonomous Systems II • Learning and Knowledge • Interaction and Collaboration • Software Engineering and Cloud Computing • Spring 2019 • Project Course • Open also for WASP-AI PhD students
WASP-AI Track Elective for the WASP-AS students
Graduate School in images
Graduate School in images
WASP Main Instruments A research program with the best researchers in the field. Recruitment of both leading and young researchers. (Nine in place; more than 50 in total) A graduate school in close interaction with Swedish industry. (At least 350 PhD with at least 100 industrial PhDs) Arenas for research and demonstration in collaboration with industry and other parties. Internationalization; Stanford, Berkeley, NTU
WARA – Research Arenas
Open arenas with rich possibilities
Build on unique Swedish relation
academia-industry
SAAB, Axis, Ericsson, … Zenuity, Volvo , Ericsson, …
WARA-PS: WARA-CAT/DAT:
Public Safety / Search and Rescue Collaborative Autonomous TransportWARA – Research Arenas
C2 – Command and Control
• SAFE
C2
Situation Awareness STAC - Simultaneous Tracking and Classification
Combitech • Open Source products integrated
Enhanced planning DF – Delegation Framework
• Delegation Framework
and rehearsal
ERDC • ROS Integration environment
Ericsson
STAC DF ERDC – Ericsson Research Data Center
Cloud agent
• Processing, distribution and performance
Axis
ObstacleLiUavoidance • Data storage
COMS - Communications
Ad-Hoc Networks
COMS Telia
• 4G
• WIFI
• AIS - VHF
SIM
UxV, Sensor – Unmanned Surface/Aerial Vehicles and
Collaborative landing Sensor
• USV – Piraya, CB 90, USV C2 system
USV Sensor UAV • UAV – Matrice 100, NUC
Swarm
Camera agent Drop things • Axis Cameras
Kockums Axis LiU
GPS free positioning Fixed Wing SIM – Simulation Environment
Field agent • Naval SE
• WISE Connectivity
Public Safety Research ArenaWASP Main Instruments A research program with the best researchers in the field. Recruitment of both leading and young researchers. (Nine in place; more than 50 in total) A graduate school in close interaction with Swedish industry. (At least 350 PhD with at least 100 industrial PhDs) Arenas for research and demonstration in collaboration with industry and other parties. Internationalization; Stanford, Berkeley, NTU
Internationalization MoUs with Stanford, Berkeley, and NTU Singapore
IMAG International Management and Affiliations Group (IMAG) Main contact for general and research questions is Anders Ynnerman Main contact for questions related to PhD activities and student exchange is Fredrik Heintz (e.g. semester abroad) Anders Ynnerman Fredrik Heintz Karl-Henrik Johansson Bo Wahlberg
Infrastructure Computational infrastructure for AI 70 MSEK Directive and time plan (Oct 1) in place Group: Anders Ynnerman, LiU, Chair Matts Karlsson (NSC), Erwin Laure (PDC), Erik Elmroth (UmU), Michael Felsberg (LiU), Johan Eker (Ericsson, LU)
WASP-AS Industrial PhD Student Call
WASP Industrial PhD student positions Open positions within Autonomous Systems and Software We are now offering up to 22 industrial doctoral student positions within WASP-AS at the five partner universities Chalmers, KTH, Linköping University, Lund University and Umeå University. Application process The application should be written in a dedicated application form and submitted jointly by the industry and university. The form is available here. The form together with requested CVs and a course transcript for the industrial doctoral student, as stated in the form, should be sent to position@WASP-Sweden.se no later than 2019-04-26. Timetable 2019-02-01 Webinar for interested applicants 2019-04-26 Application deadline 2019-05-23 Decision 2019-08-01 Earliest start 2020-01-01 Latest start
Riktlinjer WASP Industridoktorand En industridoktorand bedriver forskarutbildning inom en anställning i industrin. Inom WASP bedriver en industridoktorand forskarutbildning på minst 80%. Industridoktoranden vistas minst 20% på vardera företaget och värdforskargruppen. Industridoktoranden förväntas delta i de specifika arrangemang som WASP anordnar, såsom exempelvis gemensamma symposier och studieresor. Det skall finnas en individuell utvecklingsplan hos företaget som behandlar frågor såsom huvudkontaktperson, industrihandledare och rollen för närmsta chef samt doktorandprojektets betydelse i företagets strategi.
Riktlinjer WASP Industridoktorand Företaget erhåller för 600 kSEK per år från WASP i maximalt fyra år under förutsättning att industridoktoranden är aktiv på heltid, vilket ger en total ersättning på 2.4 MSEK vilket kan sträckas ut över upp till fem år. Schablonbeloppet ska täcka in kostnader för industridoktorandens resor kopplade till forskarstudierna såsom resor till och från konferenser, kurser och demonstrationsarenor med undantag för de internationella studieresorna som bekostas av WASPs forskarskola. På samma sätt som för universitetsdoktoranderna ser vi att det schablonmässigt rör sig om upp till 30 000 kr per år.
Application form p. 1-2
Application form p. 3-4
Questions & Answers
• What types of industries may participate?
• Not only the traditional system industry but also,
e.g., finance, media, consulting, medicine, .....
• May institutes and government agencies
participate?
• No
• Is it possible to hire a newly examined student
for an industrial PhD student project?
• Yes, although it is recommended that the PhD
candidate has at least a couple of years experience
with the companyQuestions & Answers
• Are AI or Machine Learning projects eligible?
• Yes, as long as the AI or ML part of the project is
considered an enabling technology for some
autonomous system
• Is it possible to chose which graduate school
track that the student should belong to?
• No, the students accepted in this call will have to
follow the WASP-AS track of the graduate schoolMore information? Contact your local WASP representative: • KTH: Bo Wahlberg bo@kth.se • Chalmers: Ivica Crnkovic crnkovic@chalmers.se • Linköping: Anders Ynnerman anders.ynnerman@liu.se • Lund: Karl-Erik Årzén karlerik@control.lth.se • Umeå: Erik Elmroth elmroth@cs.umu.se
Questions from the Audience • Questions will be taken in the order from the chat • Before posing the question unmute your microphone and, if you want, turn on your camera • Present yourself • Afterwards mute your microphone again • The slides and a recording of the webinar will be available on wasp-sweden.org shortly
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