Department of Information Technology

Uppsala University
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Department of
Information Technology
 About 10% of the Faculty of Science and Technology
About 4% of the University

Department of Information Technology

Computing Science

Computer Science

Scientific Computing

Systems and Control

Visual Information and Interaction

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

Abdulla Parosh Arne Andersson Ewert Bengtsson Gunilla Borgefors Ingrid Carlbom Bengt Carlsson Pierre Flener Per Gunningberg Erik Hagersten
Computer Systems Computing Science Image Analysis Image Analysis Computer Graphics Automatic Control Computing Science Data Communication Computer
Architecture

Sverker Holmgren Bengt Jonsson Stefanos Kaxiras Iordanis Gunilla Kreiss Hkan Lanshammar Per Ltstedt Alexander Ingela Nystrm Joachim Parrow
Scientific Computing Computer Systems Computer Kavathatzopoulos Numerical Analysis Automatic Control Numerical Analysis Medvedev Visualization Computing Science
Architecture Human-Computer & Systems Analysis Automatic Control
Interaction

Tore Risch Bengt Sandblad Stefan Seipel Peter Stoica Torsten Sderstrm Micael Thun Thiemo Voigt Torbjrn Wigren Wang Yi
Database Human-Computer Computer Graphics System Modelling Automatic Control Scientific Wireless Sensor Automatic Control Real-Time Systems
Technology Interaction Computing Networks