1. Department of Information Technology

2. Uppsala University
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Department of Information Technology

3. Department of Information Technology
About 10% of the Faculty of Science and Technology
About 4% of the University
Computing Science
Computer Science
Scientific Computing
Systems and Control
Visual Information and Interaction

4. 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
Turnover 2013: 230 MSEK, (1/3 teaching, 2/3 research)
Dec 2013

5. 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)

6. 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.

7. Research Computer Systems Computing Science Scientific Computing
Systems and Control
Visual Information and Interaction
Computing Education Research

8. The IT Department hosts:
Research Centres
UPMARC (Uppsala Programming for Multicore Architectures) , a Linnaeus center funded by the Swedish Research Council. Total budget: 100 million SEK.
WISENET (Uppsala Center for Wireless Sensor Networks) 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Professors, September 2012 Erik Hagersten Computer Architecture
Ewert Bengtsson
Image Analysis
Gunilla Borgefors
Image Analysis
Bengt Carlsson
Automatic Control
Pierre Flener
Computing Science
Per Gunningberg
Data Communication
Abdulla Parosh
Computer Systems
Arne Andersson
Computing Science
Ingrid Carlbom
Computer Graphics
Bengt Jonsson
Computer Systems
Sverker Holmgren
Scientific Computing
Iordanis
Kavathatzopoulos
Human-Computer
Interaction
Håkan Lanshammar
Automatic Control
& Systems Analysis
Per Lötstedt
Numerical Analysis
Alexander
Medvedev
Automatic Control
Gunilla Kreiss
Numerical Analysis
Stefanos Kaxiras
Computer Architecture
Ingela Nyström Visualization
Joachim Parrow
Computing Science
Peter Stoica
System Modelling
Tore Risch
Database
Technology
Stefan Seipel
Computer Graphics
Torsten Söderström
Automatic Control
Wang Yi
Real-Time Systems
Bengt Sandblad
Human-Computer
Interaction
Micael Thuné
Scientific
Computing
Thiemo Voigt
Wireless Sensor
Networks
Torbjörn Wigren
Automatic Control