Fredrik Heintz

Professor, Head of Division, Head of Unit

Professor Fredrik Heintz is Head of the AI4X center of excellence, 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.

Fredrik Heintz is currently

Coordinator of the EU-project TrustLLM
Director of the national research center RESIST
Director of the national research center CHASS
Co-director of of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)
Vice President for AI Research at Adra, the AI, Data, and Robotics partnership.
Member of the Swedish AI Commission
Member of the European Commission AI act Scientific Panel
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. He was responsible for the creation and design of the 5-year engineering program in computer science and software engineering (Civilingenjör Mjukvaruteknik).
He now leads the work on continuing professional development in AI at Linköping University, including responsibility for Elements of AI/Grunderna i AI.

Fredrik was previously

Coordinator of TAILOR the H2020-ICT-48 Network of AI Research Excellence Centers developing the scientific foundations for Trustworthy AI
Director of the Wallenberg AI and Transformative Technologies Education Development Program (WASP-ED)
Director of the Graduate School for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) with more than 600 PhD students
President of the Swedish AI Society (SAIS)
Member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI
Local Arrangements Chair for IJCAI-ECAI-18 in Stockholm

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

Contributions to Science

Member EU Scientific Panel on AI, advising the AI Office, 2026 – Present.
Senior Advisor International AI Safety Report 2025, 2026.
Member of Swedish AI Commission appointed by the government that developed a Roadmap for AI in Sweden published in 2024.
Developing and training trustworthy and factual large language models from scratch as part of the TrustLLM project that I coordinate, 2023-2026.
Developed the area of multi-objective reinforcement learning for training simulations together with my industrial PhD student Johan Källström, 2020-2024.
Developed the area of utilitarian combinatorial assignment together with my PhD student Fredrik Präntare, 2020-2025.
Member of EU High Level Expert Group on AI that developed the Ethical Guidelines for Trust-worthy AI published in 2019.

Academic Background

Director RESIST SSF Strategic Research Center on Cyber-resilient AI, May 2026 – Present.
Director CHASS SSF Strategic Research Center on Drone Swarms, September 2026 – Present.
Director Linköping University Center of Excellence AI4x, Jul 2025 – Present.
Co-Director WASP, January 2025 – Present.
Professor Chair Sweden-Brazil in AI and Autonomy. Nov 2022 – Present. Collaboration with universities in Brazil such as ITA, UFF, UFSCar, UNICAMP, and USP.
Coordinator TAILOR EU-funded Network of Excellence 54 partners 20 countries, 2020 – 2024.
Director WASP Graduate School, founded a PhD program with 450+ PhD students, 2015 – 2025.
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

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.

Additional experiences and merits

Supervision of PhDs and Post-docs

Supervisor of Post-docs

Jose Luis Lima (KAW), 2021-2023
Resmi Ramachandranpillai (ELLIIT), 2021-2023
Jorge Bidinotto (CISB), 2022-2023
Mattias Tiger (CUGS), 2023-2025
Daniel de Leng 2023-2024
Katerina Lindén (EU/Adra-e), 2023-2026
Hugo-Henrik Hachem (Vinnova), 2024-2026
Andreas Bueff (EU/TrustLLM), 2024-
Ibrahim Delibasoglu, 2024-2025
Sanjay Chakraborty (WASP/WISE), 2024-
Kristina von Hausswolff 2025-
Rex Bringula 2025-
Md Fahim Sikder (WASP-HS) 2026-
Kenna Ashen (EU/MaterialsCommon), 2026-

Main supervisor PhD-students

Daniel de Leng (CUGS), PhD December 2019
Mattias Tiger (WASP), PhD December 2022
Johan Källström (WASP/Saab), PhD December 2023
Fredrik Präntare (WASP), PhD May 2024
Md Fahim Sikder (KAW), PhD January 2026
David Bergström (KAW), 2020-
Dennis Malmgren (WASP/Saab), 2021
Amath Sow (Vinnova), 2023-
Hoda Fakharzadehjahromy (EU/TrustLLM), 2023-
Emil Wiman (WASP), 2023-
Marcus Lång (EU/TrustLLM), 2024-
Joline Hellström (ZENIT), 2025-
Cajsa Wargren (ELLIIT), 2025-
Benjamin Sundvall, 2026-
Khoa Nguyen (WASP), 2026-
Jingwei Mao (EU/TrustLLM), 2026-
Stina Brunzell (WASP/WISE) 2026-
Iason Kaxiras (SSF/RESIST) 2026-
Sebastian Olsson (SSF/CHASS) 2026-

Co-supervisor PhD-students

David Landén, Lic 2011
Katarzyna Söderlund (WASP-HS/LU), 2020-2025
Kashyap Haresamudram (WASP-HS/LU), 2020-2025
Katarina Sperling (LiU/IBL), 2020-2025
Marie Francisco (LiU/TEMA), 2021-2025
Mohsen Asgari (LiU/IDA), 2022-
Finn Rietz (ÖrU), 2022

Research funding

Major Grants as PI

CHASS – SSF Strategic Research Center for Drone Swarms, 60M SEK, 2026-2031.
RESIST – SSF Strategic Research Center for Cyber Resilient AI, 60M SEK, 2026-2031.
An Agentic Approach to Mixed Initiative Multi-Robot Interaction for Public Safety Applications, ELLIIT, 5M SEK 2025-2029.
TrustLLM - Optimizing Training Pipeline for EU AI Act Compliant Language Models, EuroHPC
TrustLLM, Horizon Europe, 7M EUR, 2023-2026.
3D Exploration Planning and Learning in Dynamic Uncertain Env, WASP, 4M SEK, 2023-2028.
AIOps: A scalable research platform for artificial intelligence, ELLIIT, 5M SEK, 2022-2026.
Privacy-Preserving ML for Synthetic Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Data Generation, ELLIIT, 2021-2023.
TAILOR Trustworthy AI Integrating Learning, Optimisation & Reasoning, H2020, 12MEUR, 2020-2023.
Personal grant, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), 6M SEK, 2019-2024.
Programming Didactics, Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, 4.4M SEK, 2018-2022.
Utilitarian Combinatorial Assignment, WASP, 4M SEK, 2017-2021.

Major Grants as co-PI

NEXUS, GenAI4EU CSA, Horizon Europe, 2026-2029.
MaterialsCommon, Horizon Europe, 2026-2029.
WASP-WISE NEST 2DFound, WASP/WISE, 25MSEK, 2025-2029.
WASP NEST Secure Operation of Uncontrolled and Reliable Computing on the Edges, 20M, 2024-28.
Dynamic Multi-Drone Route Planning with Uncertainty and Constraints, Vinnova, 10M SEK, 2023-2025.
WASP-ED: Wallenberg AI & Transformative Tech. Education Dev. Prog., 18.6M SEK, 2022-25.
The 2D-Materials Frontier, KAW, 29M SEK, 2021-2025.
AI transparency and consumer trust, WASP-HS/MMW, 12M SEK, 2020-2024.

Quantitative Academic Indicators

Books: 2
Publications in journals with selective editorial policy: 40+
Publications in conferences with selective editorial policy: 100+
Book chapters: 5+
Supervised Master's dissertations: 90+ completed
Supervised Doctoral theses: 9 completed / 15 in progress
Postdoctoral supervisions: 8 completed / 5 in progress
Number of citations according to Google Scholar:
8994 / h-index 38 / i10-index 100

Publications

2026

Fredrik Heintz (2026)

Framtidens AI - intervju med Fredrik Heintz Artificiell intelligens: vad vi kan lära av science fiction 2.0, p. 85-90 (Chapter in book)

Fredrik Präntare, Leif Eriksson, George Osipov, Fredrik Heintz, Peter Jonsson (2026)

Concise representations and complexity results for welfare-maximizing combinatorial assignment Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 40, Article 30 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-026-09753-9

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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16 April 2026

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.

A man and a woman shaking hands in front of a statue.

31 March 2026

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

19 December 2025

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

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Center for Heterogeneous Adaptive Swarm Systems - CHASS

A single drone has limited capabilities, but a swarm of drones working as a unit can search large areas, monitor wildfires, deliver supplies in times of disaster, or protect critical facilities. This is the vision of CHASS.

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.

En man som står bredvid en drönare på toppen av en asfalt.

Drone and swarm research at LiU

Drones are transforming how we explore, monitor and collaborate – in the air, on land and beneath the surface of the water. Research in drones and drone swarms is an interdisciplinary and rapidly growing field.

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

Fredrik Heintz is currently

Fredrik was previously

CV in brief

University degrees and PhD’s

Contributions to Science

Academic Background

Prizes and Awards

Additional experiences and merits

Supervision of PhDs and Post-docs

Supervisor of Post-docs

Main supervisor PhD-students

Co-supervisor PhD-students

Research funding

Major Grants as PI

Major Grants as co-PI

Quantitative Academic Indicators

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

Center for Heterogeneous Adaptive Swarm Systems - CHASS

Cybersecurity

Drone and swarm research at LiU

RESIST - Resilience and Security for Trustworthy AI Systems

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

TAILOR – A European network of AI excellence centres

WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science

Digital4Business

Graduate School in Computer Science, CUGS