Fredrik Heintz

Professor, Head of Division, Head of Unit

Professor Fredrik Heintz is Head of the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Systems (AIICS), and
leads the Reasoning and Learning unit (REAL) at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA).

Trustworthy artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and stream reasoning

Dr. Fredrik Heintz is Professor of Computer Science. His research focus is artificial intelligence especially Trustworthy AI, autonomous systems, stream reasoning and the intersection between knowledge representation and machine learning.

He leads the Reasoning and Learning lab within the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Systems (AIICS) in the Department of Computer Science (IDA).

Fredrik Heintz is

Program Director of WASP-ED (Wallenberg Transformative Technologies Education Development Program).
Director of the Graduate School for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program WASP
Director of the Linköping University’s AI initiative
Coordinator of the TAILOR ICT-48 network of AI research excellence centers
President of the Swedish AI Society SAIS
Member of the CLAIRE extended core team CLAIRE
Member of the EurAI board EurAI
Member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI
Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences IVA

He is also very active in education activities both at the university level and in promoting AI, computer science and computational thinking in primary, secondary and professional education.

CV in brief

University degrees and PhD’s

Professor, Computer Science, September 2021, Linköping University, Sweden
Docent, Computer Science, January 2014. Linköping University, Sweden
Ph.D., Computer Science, March 2009. Linköping University, Sweden
M.S., Computer Science, April 2000. Linköping University, Sweden

Visiting fellowships and postdoc positions

Guest researcher, Dep. of Communication and Media. Aug 2019 – Jun 2020. Lund University.
Visiting postdoc to Professor Michael Beetz and the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group. June 2009. Munich Technical University, Germany.

Supervision of students and post-docs

Supervisor postdoc

Jose Luis Lima (KAW), 2021-
Resmi Ramachandranpillai (ELLIIT), 2021-

Main supervisor PhD Students

Daniel de Leng (CUGS), PhD dec 2019
Mattias Tiger (WASP), 2015-
Fredrik Präntare (WASP), 2017-
Johan Källström (WASP/Saab), 2018-
David Bergström (KAW), 2020-
Md Fahim Sikder (KAW), 2020-
Erik Nikko (WASP/Saab), 2020-
Dennis Malmgren (WASP/Saab), 2021

Co-supervisor PhD Students

Katarina Sperling (LiU/IBL), 2020-
Katarzyna Söderlund (WASP-HS/LU), 2020-
Kashyap Haresamudram (WASP-HS/LU), 2020-
Marie Francisco (LiU/TEMA), 2021-
David Landén, Lic 2011

Prizes and Awards

Best student paper award to his PhD student Fredrik Präntare for their paper Hybrid Dynamic Programming for Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment, 2020.
Prize for outstanding teaching effort, Linköping University, 2019.
Best paper award Tunable Dynamics in Agent-Based Simulation using Multi-Objective Rein-forcement Learning at Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop, 2019.
Best student paper award to his PhD student Fredrik Präntare for their paper An Anytime Algo-rithm for Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment, 2018.
Best experience reports and tools paper award for Computational Thinking for All - An Experi-ence Report on Scaling up Teaching Computational Thinking to All Students in a Major City in Sweden at the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2018.

Publications

2025

Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandran Pillai, Fredrik Heintz (2025) TransFusion: Generating long, high fidelity time series using diffusion models with transformers Machine Learning with Applications, Vol. 20, Article 100652 (Article in journal)

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Linda Mannila, Jonas Hallström, Charlotta Nordlöf, Fredrik Heintz, Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden (2025) Framing AI Literacy for K-12 Education: Insights from Multi-Perspective and International Stakeholders ACE '25: Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Computing Education Conference, p. 85-94 (Conference paper)

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Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Fredrik Heintz (2025) FairXAI -A Taxonomy and Framework for Fairness and Explainability Synergy in Machine Learning IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Article in journal)

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2024

Lidia Rocha, Jorge Bidinotto, Fredrik Heintz, Mattias Tiger, Kelen Vivaldini (2024) Enhancing Safety via Deep Reinforcement Learning in Trajectory Planning for Agile Flights in Unknown Environments 2024 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS, IROS 2024, p. 3076-3083 (Conference paper)

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Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz (2024) FairX: A comprehensive benchmarking tool for model analysis using fairness, utility, and explainability Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI, co-located with 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), Article 16 (Conference paper)

News about Fredrik Heintz

Shaping AI technology for the benefit of society globally

To explore similarities and challenges faced by Europe and Japan in the digital transformation era and to foster cross-border collaboration and knowledge exchange - researchers and industry professionals from Europe and Japan met at LiU.

An AI look into the future

Humming supercomputers, robot dogs on rescue missions and plenty of future opportunities with AI and the research programmes WASP and WISE. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson got many impressions from his visit to Linköping University.

Collaboration between humans and AI - focus for conference

In November 2024, the Japanese-European EJEA conference will come to Sweden and, for the first time, to Linköping University. The conference's theme is future knowledge and competence for AI-driven innovation in Europe and Japan.

Projects in research and education

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TAILOR – A European network of AI excellence centres

TAILOR is a European project coordinated by Linköping University, with the aim to build the capacity to provide the scientific foundations for Trustworthy AI in Europe. TAILOR is also a network of research excellence centres.

TrustLLM - trustworthy, open and sustainable language model for European languages

TrustLLM is a European project coordinated by Linköping University. The project will develop a language model for European languages including Swedish and is to benefit citizens and industry alike.

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WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

WASP, Wallenberg AI autonomous systems and software program, is the largest individual research investment in Sweden in modern times. One of the WASP research environments at LiU is located at the Department of Computer and Information Science.

Research environments

WASP - Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

The fourth industrial revolution is upon us, as automation becomes autonomy. LiU conducts outstanding research in several of the fields that are central to the Wallenberg AI Autonomous Systems and Software Program, WASP.

AI - Artificial intelligence is changing our lives

LiU has over 100 university courses related to AI and AI competence at every department. AI at LiU is about AI techniques as well as applications of these techniques, about views on AI, how it benefits society, ethical guidelines etc.

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AI Academy

AI Academy is an initiative that seeks to challenge talented students from a wide variety of programmes with exciting real-world AI problems.

About the division

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Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems (AIICS)

The AIICS division is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division's main focus is research and teaching in artificial intelligence, its theoretical foundations and its applications.

Colleagues at AIICS

Fredrik Heintz

Trustworthy artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and stream reasoning

CV in brief

University degrees and PhD’s

Visiting fellowships and postdoc positions

Supervision of students and post-docs

Supervisor postdoc

Main supervisor PhD Students

Co-supervisor PhD Students

Prizes and Awards

Publications

2025

2024

News about Fredrik Heintz

Shaping AI technology for the benefit of society globally

An AI look into the future

Collaboration between humans and AI - focus for conference

ISY Day 2024 – AI in Society, Education, and Research

How can AI be made secure and used to create safety?

Fredrik Heintz - member of the government’s new AI Commission

Developing a reliable ChatGPT for European languages

SEK 13 million for research into solving murders using AI

LiU and Brazil deepen collaboration in AI

“A small step for research but a giant leap for utility”

The AI-shortcut requires re-thinking of examination

The road to future AI is paved with trust

WASP-ED to make Swedish universities leading in AI

Learn the fundamentals of AI with Fredrik Heintz

LiU to lead major European AI network

AI research holding its breath

AI advancing on a broad front

Projects in research and education

TAILOR – A European network of AI excellence centres

TrustLLM - trustworthy, open and sustainable language model for European languages

WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Research environments

WASP - Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

AI - Artificial intelligence is changing our lives

AI Academy

About the division

Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems (AIICS)

Colleagues at AIICS

About the department

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

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