Department of Information Technology

1. Department of Information Technology

2. Uppsala University Disciplinary Domain for the Arts and Social Sciences Disciplinary Domain for Medicine and Pharmacy Disciplinary Domain for Science and Technology • Faculty Boards • Theology • Law • History & Philosopy • Languages • Social Science Board of the Faculty of Medicine Board of the Faculty of Pharmacy Board of the Faculty of Science and Techology Departments Departments DepartmentsDept of Information Technology

3. Department of Information Technology About 10% of the Faculty of Science and Technology About4% of the University Computing Science Division Division of Computer Systems Division of Human-Computer Interaction Division of Systems and Control Division of Scientific Computing

4. Short facts • About 200 employees • 80 faculty, including 25 full professors of which several have industrial background and connections to the industry • 90 PhD students • 116 PhD and 95 Licentiate degrees 1999-2009 • Turnover 2010: 20 M USD, (1/3 teaching, 2/3 research)

5. Undergraduate education • 3600 students each year (about 900 full time students) • Contribute in 14 programs of study, 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. . • 260 computer work stations for the students.

6. UndergraduateEducation Department of the Year 2009 The department of Information Technology has received the Challenge Cup "Undergraduate Education Department of the Year 2009" by Uppsala studentkår (Uppsala Student Union) with the motivation:"The department shows great interest in its students and they are received with respect and acceptance. Students are taken seriously and looked upon as being important partners for developing the quality of both teaching methods and study environment. The department sets a good example for many and it is with great joy that the Uppsala Student Union awards it the Challenge Cup."

7. The IT departments 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. • 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.

8. The IT departments hosts: • Particularly strong and large groups in • Specification, verification, and analysis of real-time and distributed systems. • Signal processing and system identification. • Construction, analysis and implementation of numerical methods for partial differential equations. • 2 Highly Cited Researchers • Members of the Royal Academy of Science, and of the Royal Academy of Engineering Science • Four of the six most highly cited Swedish researchers in the Computer Science area** *) as defined by ISI HighlyCited.com **) according to a recent investigation using Citeseer

9. Arne Andersson ComputingScience Abdulla Parosh Computer Systems Håkan Lanshammar Automatic Control &Systems Analysis Gunilla Kreiss Numerical Analysis Joachim Parrow Computer Systems Alexander Medvedev Automatic Control Jan Nordström Numerical Analysis Bengt Jonsson Computer Systems Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos Human- Computer Interaction Torbjörn Wigren Automatic Control Michael Thuné Scientific Computing Torsten Söderström Automatic Control Peter Stoica System Modelling Ewert Bengtsson Image Analysis Per Gunningberg Data Communication Bengt Carlsson Automatic Control Pierre Flener Computing Science Erik Hagersten Computer Architecture Sverker Holmgren Scientific Computing Per Lötstedt Numerical Analysis Wang Yi Real-Time Systems Stefan Seipel Computer Graphics Bengt Sandblad Human- Computer Interaction Tore Risch Database Technology Professors, June 2010 ISI Highly Cited Researcher

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11. Citations from KoF panel reports • 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. • COMPUTER SYSTEMS:The work done on Verification, mostly based on Model Checking, is of world-class quality. The work on Stat Cache is world leading and has led to a startup company that is producing a highly useful program analysis tool. The group in Computer Networks is rightly proud of its ability to empirically challenge many of the assumptions made in modelling of mobile networks and to develop tools that are internationally used. • COMPUTING SCIENCE:The four research groups in Computing Science are all internationally recognized, and in some cases world class.Recently, there has been significant world-class work in developing highly effective memory-management techniques making a contribution in this highly competitive area.  The database activity within the IS Department is internationally recognized for work in several modern directions

12. Citations from KoF panel reports • HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION:Among the three units (at UU) where HCI research gets done, the HCI division at the IT department is clearly the most active, both in absolute numbers and in relation to the size of the personnel. The networking activities of the HCI researchers are outstanding. • SYSTEMS AND CONTROLThe Division of Systems and Control, in the Department of Information technology, even though small compared to similar divisions in other Swedish universities, performs world leading research in system identification and in signal processing. The research activities cover both theoretical research of the highest international quality and a range of applications in which the theoretical results produced by the members of the division are able to achieve significant improvements over existing technologies. • SCIENTIFIC COMPUTINGThe Division has a clear strategy; the research is directed towards challenging and important applications often motivated by scientists outside the department and from industry. The Division is very active and willing to explore new ways to establish research cooperation with other groups.The Division is well positioned in the emerging field of computational science. The overall impression of the research is that it is of internationally high standard with elements of top-level activities.

13. The IT department is: • Performing research in a vibrant and expanding area • Among the leading departments in Europe in the IT area according to an investigation by the University vice Chancellor, 2006. • The third largest department at the University. • The most complete department: - in Uppsala (balance between edu. & research)- in Sweden (unique coverage of IT)

14. Uppsala Univ Royal Institute of Technology Lund Univ Chalmers Institute Of Technology The IT department in Sweden The strenght of Computer Science/Mathematics at Swedish Universities, according to a recent Governmental enquiry (SOU 2007:81, Nov 2007) The numbers are equivalent number of full time researchers performing on world average level. In Uppsala this is accomplished by about half that number of researchers. The analysis is based on bibliometry.

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