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

2026

Amath Sow, Mauricio Rodriguez, Fabíola M. C. de Oliveira, Mariusz Wzorek, Daniel de Leng, Mattias Tiger, Fredrik Heintz, Christian Rothenberg (2026)

Multi UAVs Preflight Planning in a Shared and Dynamic Airspace Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) (Conference paper)

https://dx.doi.org/10.65109/KPWJ5508

Tanya K. Osborne, Hugo-Henrik Hachem, Dan Paulin, Ola Hultkrantz, Ulrika Lundqvist, Kent Thorén, Jan Gulliksen, Fredrik Heintz, Amy Loutfi, Francis Lee, Mattias Wiggberg (2026)

Upskilling for Advanced Digitization: A Scoping Review IEEE Access, Vol. 14, p. 55299-55313 (Article, review/survey)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3679711

Jonas Hallström, Linda Mannila, Charlotta Nordlöf, Fredrik Heintz, Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden (2026)

AI literacy for K-12 education: an international Delphi study Interactive Learning Environments (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2026.2649553

Ibrahim Delibasoglu, Sanjay Chakraborty, Fredrik Heintz, Fredrik Wernersson Brodin, Andreas Darnell (2026)

Advancing delignification in the pulp and paper industry: Multivariate time series forecasting, explainability, and simulation analysis Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10845-026-02836-0

Marie Francisco, Fredrik Heintz (2026)

The geopolitics of AI in global environmental governance Handbook on the Geopolitics of Sustainability, p. 165-176 (Chapter in book)

https://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035342549.00026

News about Fredrik Heintz

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New centre for research on drone swarms

Linköping University will host a new research centre that, in collaboration with Lund University and Örebro University, will develop technologies for autonomous swarms of drones.

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New AI partnership strengthens the region

The AI Academy Partnership Program at Linköping University will support companies and organisations in developing the skills needed to use AI effectively. The first partner in this new form of collaboration is Länsförsäkringar Östgöta.

Porträtt av Fredrik Heintz som sitter i en trappa

National initiative to protect AI systems from cyberattacks

LiU will host a new national centre aimed at developing resilient AI systems. The funding of SEK 60 million comes from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and its director will be LiU Professor Fredrik Heintz.

Projects in research and education

Cybersecurity

Welcome to the cybersecurity platform at Linköping University. Here you can find information about research and education in cybersecurity, as well as researchers and teachers active in the field.

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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.

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.

Artificial intelligence (AI) at Linköping University

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.

En tjej och en kille diskuterar kod framför en datorskärm

AI Academy

AI Academy supports companies and public-sector organisations with knowledge and applications in AI.

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

2026

News about Fredrik Heintz

New centre for research on drone swarms

New AI partnership strengthens the region

National initiative to protect AI systems from cyberattacks

Centres of Excellence strengthen LiU’s research

Mutual reinforcement of ethics and trust in AI

Shaping AI technology for the benefit of society globally

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?

Developing a reliable ChatGPT for European languages

SEK 13 million for research into solving murders using 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

Cybersecurity

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

Digital4Business

RESIST - Resilience and Security for Trustworthy AI Systems

Center for Heterogeneous Adaptive Swarm Systems - CHASS