Fredrik Gustafsson

Professor

My research interests are in stochastic signal processing, adaptive filtering and change detection, with applications to communication, vehicular, airborne, audio and wildlife applications.

Professor in Sensor Informatics

Fredrik Gustafsson is professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, since 2005.

He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, 1992, both from Linköping University. During 1992-1999 he held various positions in automatic control, and 1999-2005 he was professor in Communication Systems.

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Editorships

He was an associate editor for;

IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing 2000-2006
Journal on Observations and Navigation 2008-2011
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 2009-2012
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 2010-2012
He was head of the Signal and Systems review panel for the Swedish Research Council (VR) 2009, 2011 and 2012

Fellowships

Distinguished Professor (rådsprofessor) awarded from the Swedish Research Council 2015-2024
IEEE Fellow (2011)
Elected member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) 2007

Awards

Arnberg prize 2004 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA)
SAAB award in the name of former CEO Åke Svensson 2011
Entrepreneurial researcher of the year at Linköping University, 2012
Harry Rowe Mimno Best Paper Award 2011 for the tutorial "Particle Filter Theory and Practice with Positioning Applications", which was published in the IEEE AESS Magazine in July 2010
Automatica Best Paper Award 2012 for the paper ``Smoothed state estimates under abrupt changes using sum-of-norms regularization'', co-authored with H. Ohlsson, L. Ljung and S. Boyd

Publications

Eric Sevonius, Fredrik Gustafsson, Gustaf Hendeby, Exploring the Properties of Multi-Agent Terrain-Aided Navigation, 2025 28th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), pp. 1-8, IEEE (2025) https://doi.org/10.23919/FUSION65864.2025.11124164

Gustav Zetterqvist, Fredrik Gustafsson, Gustaf Hendeby, Directional Sensitivity-Based DOA Estimation Using a Fourier Series Model, IEEE Sensors Journal 25:1-1 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2025.3604893

Martin Agebjär, Gustav Zetterqvist, Fredrik Gustafsson, Johan Wahlström, Gustaf Hendeby, Road Roughness Estimation via Fusion of Standard Onboard Automotive Sensors, 2025 28th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), pp. 1-8, IEEE (2025) https://doi.org/10.23919/FUSION65864.2025.11123970

Armin Spreco, Örjan Dahlström, Dennis Nordvall, Cecilia Fagerstrom, Eva Blomqvist, Fredrik Gustafsson, Christer Andersson, Rune Sjödahl, Olle Eriksson, Jorma Hinkula, Thomas Schön, Toomas Timpka, Integrated Surveillance of Disparities in Vaccination Coverage and Morbidity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cohort Study in Southeast Sweden, Vaccines 12:763 (2024) https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12070763

Daniel Goderik, Albin Westlund, Gustav Zetterqvist, Fredrik Gustafsson, Gustaf Hendeby, Seismic Detection of Elephant Footsteps, 2024 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), IEEE (ed.), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2024) https://doi.org/10.23919/FUSION59988.2024.10706452

Research

WASP at Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY)

WASP Computer Vision Laboratory, WASP Sensor fusion, WASP Vehicular Systems and WASP Optimization for Learning and Autonomy are located at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) on Campus Valla in Linköping.

Reseach projects

Data-based Ship Modeling for Marine Automation

How can sensor data and data-based modeling be used to make cargo ships more efficient, with the long-term goal to develop fully autonomous ships? This is the topic in this industry-oriented research project.

Smart savannahs

With the help of modern security technology, apps and drones, endangered rhinoceros and elephants can be protected from poachers.

News

21 July 2021

Smart cameras for conservation biology

Machine learning and smart cameras will be used to make it easier to monitor the large animals in African nature reserves. The technology has been developed by scientists and students at Linköping University.

01 June 2021

Technology to stop poaching

The black market in rhinoceros horn is worth billions of dollars, and poaching is driving the species towards extinction. However, the drive against poaching is now to be given new impetus with the aid of the most recent technology.

Fredrik Gustafsson and Toomas Timpka looks into the camera.

28 December 2020

Researchers critical to flawed Covid-19-models

Reports from Imperial College regarding the spread and the effects of Covid-19 had considerable policy impacts in several European countries. But the models that informed the reports have considerable flaws, according to LiU-researchers.