Successful premiere for ISY's PhD Workshop

29 August 2022

Karl Öfverström

For the first time, the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY), organized an all-day conference dedicated solely to the department's PhD-students. The director of PhD studies, professor Mark Vesterbacka, was more than satisfied when he summed up "PhD Workshop @ISY 2022".

The director of PhD studies, professor Mark Vesterbacka to the left in the front row, and the jury containing of professor emeritus Robert Forchheimer, ISY, Robert Malmqvist, Docent/Senior Scientist, FOI and Robert Hägglund, Head of Radio Frequency and Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits at Ericsson together with part of the PhD students that attended. Photographer: Karl Öfverström

- This is an excellent way for our PhD-students to show off what they are up to. In addition, it is a very good and fun way to get to know each other. You meet, listen, discuss, and share your research experience with others.

A total of about forty PhD-students from the department participated and they were able to take part in a huge program. During the day there were inspiring presentations, posters and mingling with PhD-students from the department's different divisions.

The jury liked what they saw

Robert Hägglund, Head of Radio Frequency and Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits, Ericsson, Robert Malmqvist, Docent/Senior Scientist, FOI and professor emeritus Robert Forchheimer, ISY. Front row: Daniel Arnström, Division of Automatic control and Zakir Hussain Shaik Division of Communication system.

The jury and the winners Daniel Arnström and Zakir Hussain Shaik. Karl Öfverström Some who took part of the presentations were professor emeritus Robert Forchheimer, ISY, Robert Hägglund, Head of Radio Frequency and Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits at Ericsson and Robert Malmqvist, Docent/Senior Scientist, FOI who for the day were invited to work as a jury to select the best oral presentation and poster.

- It has been very exciting to see all the presentations. ISY has very interesting research in many different areas, said Robert Hägglund before he and his jury colleagues announced the winners.

They were awarded for their presentations

The best poster award was given to Zakir Hussain Shaik of the division of Communication Systems with the motivation: "A very clear poster presentation describing a new and interesting approach in the field of wireless communications."

The prize for best oral presentation was awarded to Daniel Arnström, the division of Automatic Control, and his presentation "Towards real-time certified linear MPC".
The jury's motivation was: "With a clear oral presentation and accompanying visuals, Daniel guided the audience from trial and error to an optimization-based approach, which significantly reduced the number of trials and reduced the time to find the appropriate solution to the problem".

Probably more upcoming PhD Workshops

- I think the whole day has been successful and that the day was great. I hope this is something that will come back at regular intervals, Mark Vesterbacka summed up after the day ended with an award ceremony, flowers, canapés, and drinks.

PhD Workshop @ISY 2022 in pictures

Alberto Zenere: A new framework for the integration of intra-cellular data in systems biology Photographer: Karl Öfverström

Chuan Huang: A tightly-integrated magnetic-field aided inertial navigation system Photographer: Karl Öfverström

Johanna Wilroth: Auditory attention decoding: a key to understand how the brain solves the cocktail party problem Photographer: Karl Öfverström

Joakim Argillander: Quantum random number generation with guaranteed privacy Photographer: Karl Öfverström

The jury containing of professor emeritus Robert Forchheimer, ISY, Robert Malmqvist, Docent/Senior Scientist, FOI and Robert Hägglund, Head of Radio Frequency and Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits at Ericsson Photographer: Karl Öfverström

Deijany Rodríguez Linares: Linearization of weakly nonlinear systems using one-layer convolutional neural networks Photographer: Karl Öfverström

Mikael Henriksson: An architecture for grant-free random access massive machine type communication using coordinate descent Photographer: Karl Öfverström

The director of PhD studies, Mark Vesterbacka. Photographer: Karl Öfverström

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