January 15-16 – Main Conference Program

January 15

8:30 Registration opens
Room: Foajén – De Geerhallen

8:30 – 9:30 PhD students hang their posters and exhibitor sets up booths

10:00 Welcome and Director’s update
Room: De Geerhallen
Chairs: Anders Ynnerman, Chair of the WASP Board, Pontus de Laval, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Stiftelse & Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director

10:25 Presentation of WALP-projects
Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Sandor Albrecht, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

  • Building a trait- and disease risk classifier platform that interprets stress marks in DNA
    Mika Gustafsson, Professor and Senior lecturer in translational bioinformatics and Maria Lerm, Professor in Medical Microbiology, both at Linköping University
  • Sparse modeling and sampling for photorealistic rendering
    Jonas Unger, Professor and Research leader, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Linköping University and co-founder Sparsit AB
  • FleetMQ: Creating Seamless Vehicle Middleware
    Frank Jiang, CEO of FleetMQ & PhD Student, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

11:05 Coffee break
Room: Outside De Geerhallen

11:45 WARA Highlights 
Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Niclas Fock, WARA Director

  • Johanna Björklund, Project Manager WARA Media & Language
  • Johan Eker, Project Manager WARA Operational Data
  • Matteo Iovino, Project Manager WARA Robotics
  • Jesper Tordenlid, Project Manager WARA Public Safety


12:45 Lunch
Room: Outside De Geerhallen

12:45 Recruited Faculty Lunch meeting
Room: Vingen
Chair: Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director

14:00 The Road Map for Supercomputing for AI in Sweden
Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Anders Ynnerman
Niclas Andersson, Technology Manager, National Supercomputer Centre (NSC)

14:30 Poster session 1 and exhibition
Rooms: Flygeln and Trozelligalleriet

Map poster exhibition
Poster catalogue

15:30 Poster session 2 and exhibition with coffee with sandwich
Rooms: Flygeln and Trozelligalleriet

Map poster exhibition
Poster catalogue

16:30 Parallel session: Panel discussion The PhD adventure: Navigating Research, Career, and Impact
Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Amandine Caut and Hoomaan Maskan, PhD Student Council

16:30 Parallel session (for alumni): Alumni meeting with management
Room: Trozellirummet
Chair: Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director

17:25 Wrap up and practical information
Room: De Geerhallen

17:30 End of day

17:30-19:00 PhD students removes their posters and exhibitor removes booths

19:00 Dinner
The wardrobe will open in Flygeln at 18:30. We recommend everyone to be well in time to avoid queues. During the dinner there will be a ceremony for our 2024 graduates and announcement of the Alumni of the Year Award.
Room: Värmekyrkan
Host: Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director

January 16

8:30 Registration and coffee
Room: Foajén – De Geerhallen

9:00 Scientific Highlights

  • Equivariant deep learning for computer vision
    Georg Bökman, Project Assistant at Chalmers University och Technology
  • Structured Reinforcement Learning: Can Theory Shape Practical Choices?
    Stefan Stojanovic, PhD student, KTH Royal Institute of Technology 
  • Mimicking Production Behavior with Generated Mocks
    Deepika Tiwari, PhD Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Efficient inference and training of graph neural networks at the edge
    Jose Nunez-Yanez, Professor at Linköping University
  • Split Trees and Data Algorithms
    Cecilia Holmgren, Professor at Uppsala university

Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director

10:00 Fireside chat: Cyber Frontier
Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Staffan Truvé, CTO & Co-founder, Recorded Future

  • Elisa Bertino, Distinguished WASP Guest Professor
  • Mauro Conti, Professor Padua University, Italy
  • Hamed Nemati, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

10:40 Coffee break
Room: Outside De Geerhallen

11:20 The Nobel Spotlight
Erik Lindahl, Professor at KTH & Thomas Schön, Professor, Uppsala University
Chair: Anders Ynnerman, Chair of the WASP Board
Room: De Geerhallen

11:55 Best Thesis and Poster Award, Alumni of the Year presentation
Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Karl-Erik Årzén, Co-director for research program coordination

12:35 Fireside chat: WASP’s First 10 Years
Room: De Geerhallen
Chair: Amy Loutfi

  • Karl-Erik Årzén, WASP Co-director
  • Bo Wahlberg, Chair International Management Group Technology

12:55 Lunch
Room: Outside De Geerhallen

13.30 Cluster session #1
Room: See Cluster Meetings
Chairs: Cluster leaders

14:45 Cluster session #2
Room: See Cluster Meetings
Chairs: Cluster leaders

15:45 End of program