Fredrik Heintz

Professor, Head of Division, Head of Unit

Professor Fredrik Heintz leads the Reasoning and Learning lab within the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Systems (AIICS).

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

2023

News about Fredrik Heintz

Male researcher in lab, blue background light.

SEK 13 million for research into solving murders using AI

Was it murder, poisoning or was the death maybe caused by disease? Researchers have now been granted SEK 13 million from the Swedish Research Council to develop a methodology to solve crimes using detailed analyses and artificial intelligence.

LiU and Brazil deepen collaboration in AI

Fredrik Heintz is to be one of two chairpersons of a new bilateral working group on AI between Sweden and Brazil. He hopes that the collaboration will lead to more research projects and exchanges between LiU and Brazil.

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

Artificial intelligence is on many people’s lips thanks to Chat GPT. But is the new technology a threat or an opportunity? Or is it both? AI researcher Fredrik Heintz sees great opportunities but also challenges.

AI-generated image of robots in a classroom.

The AI-shortcut requires re-thinking of examination

Changes are ahead when it comes to testing students’ knowledge. The arrival of Chat GPT challenges both the university’s teachers and its disciplinary board.

The road to future AI is paved with trust

Many researchers believe that what we have seen so far is only the beginning of AI. However, it must be trustworthy in all situations. LiU is coordinating a EU project that has drawn up a roadmap towards the trustworthy AI of the future.

WASP-ED to make Swedish universities leading in AI

WASP-ED is a new programme for education in artificial intelligence (AI). LiU is to take on the main coordinating role on the programme, which has received SEK 18.6 million from the Marcus and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation.

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.

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 main focus of interest for the division is research and teaching in artificial intelligence, its theoretical foundations and its applications.

Colleagues at AIICS

William Ahlberg

Research Engineer

Mohsen Asgari

PhD student

Cyrille Berger

Associate Professor

David Bergström

PhD student

Marcel Bollmann

Associate Professor

Christer Bäckström

Associate Professor, Docent

Peter Dalenius

Lecturer

Patrick Doherty

Professor

Ehsan Doostmohammadi

PhD student

Dominik Drexler

PhD student

Leif Eriksson

PhD student

Hoda Fakharzadehjahromy

PhD student

Johannes Klaus Fichte

Associate Professor

Martin Forsberg

Teaching Assistant

Markus Fritzsche

PhD student

Martin Funkquist

PhD student

Hector Geffner

Visiting Professor

Daniel Gnad

Assistant Professor

Julia Hannu

Research Engineer

Arash Haratian

Teaching Assistant

Oskar Holmström

PhD student

Paul Höft

PhD student

Peter Jonsson

Professor, Head of Unit

Lowe Kozak Åslöv

Teaching Assistant

Marco Kuhlmann

Deputy Head of Department, Professor, Head of Unit

Jenny Kunz

PhD student

Jonas Kvarnström

Associate Professor, Docent

Lars Johan Källström

Victor Lagerkvist

Associate Professor, Docent

Katerina Linden

Postdoc

Dennis Malmgren

Linda Mannila

Adjunct Associate Professor

Farid Musayev

PhD student

Mikael Nilsson

Ulf Nilsson

Professor Emeritus

George Osipov

PhD student

Tommy Persson

Research Engineer

Fredrik Präntare

PhD student

Fawad Qayum

Senior Coordinator

Piotr Rudol

Research Engineer

Erik Sandewall

Professor Emeritus

Jendrik Seipp

Assistant Professor, Docent

Md Fahim Sikder

PhD student

Mika Skjelnes

PhD student

David Speck

Postdoc

Akshath Srinivas

Teaching Assistant

Simon Ståhlberg

Principal Research Engineer

Andrzej Szalas

Professor Emeritus

Mattias Tiger

Postdoc

Olle Torstensson

PhD student

Emil Wiman

PhD student

Mariusz Wzorek

Research Engineer

Daniel de Leng

Postdoc

Jorke de Vlas

About the department

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

The Department of Computer and Information Science is one of the largest departments in northern Europe in its field. Research activity covers artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, software and computer systems, and data science.

Fredrik Heintz

Trustworthy artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and stream reasoning