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 at IDA covers artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, software and computer systems, and data science.

The department is a dynamic and growing environment for research and education with around 300 employees. The activity covers a wide range of areas, from core computer science to applications of science. It is oriented towards both the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

The research activity at IDA is mainly performed within four major areas, each divided into a number of subareas:

Artificial intelligence (AI) with the subareas of autonomous systems and robotics, knowledge representation and reasoning, ontologies and semantic web, automated planning, applied machine learning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, and theoretical foundations of AI.

Cognition, interaction and design with the subareas of cognitive science, cognitive systems engineering, interaction design, service design, public safety and security, decision support, human factors, and social robotics.
Software and computer systems with the subareas of software engineering, embedded and cyberphysical systems, real-time systems, cybersecurity and resilient systems, networks and distributed systems, multimedia systems, formal methods, compilers and programming language, and parallel and high performance computing.
Data science with the subareas of machine learning methodology, statistics, database technology, and data analytics.

The broad research base of the department directly enriches the undergraduate and graduate education. The department gives courses within most engineering programmes, several Master programmes, as well as the programmes for innovative programming, cognitive science and statistics.

IDA also offers doctoral education in computer science, design, cognitive science and statistics. Currently, around 100 postgraduate students are active in the department’s PhD programmes.

The department was founded in 1983, but its roots can be traced to the early seventies. It is organised in six divisions.

News at IDA

02 February 2026

AI and simulation lab equips teachers

Teachers and students are given tools to use AI wisely in education. In simulations with avatars, they practise dealing with teaching challenges. This and much more is going on in the AIST Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative at LiU.

27 January 2026

Cutting‑edge IT and mobile communications research grows

Efficient 6G, advanced robotics and human-machine interaction are some of the themes of the 25 new research projects that have been awarded funding within the ELLIIT initiative. The projects share a total of SEK 255 million over five years.

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.

Job vacancies at IDA

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Job	Published To	Employment Type	External ID	City	Institution	Position	URL
PhD student in Visualization and Media Technology with a focus on visual learning and communication	2026-02-25	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2025-05514	Norrkoping	ITN - Department of Science and Technology	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/27975
PhD Student in Automatic Control	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2025-05357	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28117
PhD student in biomedical engineering, deep learning for medical images	2026-02-19	Time limited employment (temporary)	IMT-2025-00069	Linkoping	IMT - Biomedical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28118
PhD student in Bayesian Computational Mathematics	2026-03-02	Time limited employment (temporary)	MAI-2025-00127	Linkoping	MAI - Department of Mathematics	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28185
Professor of Ageing and Social Change	2026-02-22	Permanent employment	LiU-2025-03576	Norrkoping	IKOS - Department of Culture and Society	Teachers and Scientists	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28195
PhD student in secure distributed learning	2026-02-16	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2025-06038	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28209
PhD student in Statistics	2026-03-03	Time limited employment (temporary)	IDA-2025-00412	Linkoping	IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28230
Research Engineer for Machine Learning in Materials Science	2026-02-16	Time limited employment (temporary)	IDA-2025-00422	Linkoping	IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science	Technical and Administrative personnel	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28297
PhD Position in Industrial Marketing	2026-04-16	Time limited employment (temporary)	IEI-2026-00026	Linkoping	IEI - Department of Management and Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28393
Postdoc on Virtual Knowledge Graph Integration	2026-03-15	Time limited employment (temporary)	IDA-2026-00037	Linkoping	IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science	Teachers and Scientists	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28487
Postdoc in Ethology	2026-03-31	Time limited employment (temporary)	IFM-2026-00037	Linkoping	IFM - Department of Physics, Biology and Chemistry	Teachers and Scientists	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28497
Postdoctoral Researcher in Medical Image Processing	2026-03-01	Time limited employment (temporary)	IMT-2026-00002	Linkoping	IMT - Biomedical Engineering	Teachers and Scientists	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28501
Postdoctoral position on Active Optical Metasurfaces	2026-02-25	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00739	Norrkoping	ITN - Department of Science and Technology	Teachers and Scientists	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28502
PhD Student in Automatic Control with focus on sensor informatics	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00556	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28521
PhD Student in Automatic Control with focus on sensor fusion for distributed situational awareness	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00557	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28522
PhD Student in Automatic Control with focus on sensor fusion for localization	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00559	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28525
PhD Student in Automatic Control with focus on control allocation for future stealth aircraft	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00558	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28526
PhD Student in Automatic Control for Adaptive Hearing Aids	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00560	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28528
PhD Student in Automatic Control with focus on optimization under uncertainty	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00561	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28532
PhD Student in Automatic Control with focus on learning robotics	2026-02-27	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00562	Linkoping	ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28537
PhD Student in Computational Mathematics	2026-04-09	Time limited employment (temporary)	MAI-2026-00013	Linkoping	MAI - Department of Mathematics	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28545
Postdoc in cognitive science with a focus on children and AI	2026-04-15	Time limited employment (temporary)	IDA-2026-00044	Linkoping	IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science	Teachers and Scientists	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28554
PhD in Applied Physics	2026-03-09	Time limited employment (temporary)	LiU-2026-00831	Norrkoping	ITN - Department of Science and Technology	PhD students	https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28573

Research at IDA

Cybersecurity

Welcome to the cybersecurity platform at the Department of Computer and Information Science 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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WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

WASP, Wallenberg AI autonomous systems and software program, is the largest individual research investment in Sweden in modern times. One of the WASP research environments at LiU is located at the Department of Computer and Information Science.

Other large industrial collaborations and national strategic research areas

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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.

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Adaptive Software for the Heterogenous Edge-Cloud-Continuum - ASTECC

ASTECC is a 5-year cooperative research project in software systems at the Department of Computer and Information Science. It is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF).

ELLIIT - a network for Information and Communication Technology

ELLIIT is a network organization for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research at Linköping, Lund, Halmstad and Blekinge. The objective is scientific excellence in combination with industrial relevance and impact.

Security Link

A platform for strategic interdisciplinary research, within crisis management, security and infrastructure protection. The research covers sensors, telecommunication, sensor and information fusion, decision support, information security and ethics.

More projects at IDA and centra/laboratories for collaboration

Cybersecurity lab at LiU

The cybersecurity lab at LiU offers facilities that are tailored for teaching cybersecurity in undergraduate and professional training programs. These facilities enable training in both offensive and defensive cybersecurity within secure settings.

The joy in reading – a co-design project around students’ interaction with social robots

A study investigating the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to students' reading. It examines how key reading activities and situations in school can be designed for interaction between a social robot and 10-year-old students.

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Center for Advanced Research in Emergency Response - CARER

A collaboration between LiU and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency which aims to consolidate and strengthen LiU's research in risk, response and rescue area.

AI literacy in Swedish Teacher Education

This project focuses on AI literacy in Swedish teacher education, mainly what AI literacy in Swedish teacher education means in terms of knowledge and competences needed for schoolteachers future working lives.

Doctoral studies

Doctoral (PhD) studies at the Department of Computer and Information Science

Doctoral studies at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) are organised to cross traditional subject boundaries, and is common to the whole department.

Educational programmes involving IDA

The department gives courses within most engineering programmes, the Bachelor's programmes in Information Systems Analysis, Innovative Programming, Cognitive Science, and Statistics and Data Analysis, and several Master's programmes.

For more information on the programmes in Swedish that the department gives courses within, please visit Institutionen för datavetenskap (utbildningsprogram).

Master's programmes

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Computer Science, Master's Programme, 120 credits

Provides skills needed within modern software technology, for positions such as operating systems designer or Internet security specialists. You can also pursue a career in research or continue your studies towards a doctoral degree.

Cybersecurity, Master's Programme, 120 credits

Help defend society against cyberattacks and develop next-generation security solutions. This programme combines theoretical courses and practical exercises which will give you tools to address the digital security challenges of today and tomorrow.

Design, Master's Programme, 120 credits

This programme offers an interdisciplinary design-based approach to tackling societal challenges through service design, sustainable design and visual media design. Established and innovative design concepts are incorporated in a collaborative setup.

Popular online courses

Elements of AI, 2 credits

The course aims to give an introduction and overview of artificial intelligence. The focus is on understanding the concept and some important techniques such as search and machine learning as well as consequences of AI on society. Start the course

Elements of AI, Part 2: Building AI, 2 credits

Course contentThe course aims to introduce practical AI, focusing on basic machine learning. The aim is to understand how to build AI systems using machine learning, gain insight into the possibilities and limitations of the technology, and to get

AI for Natural Language, 3 credits

Course contentWriting computer programs that understand and produce human language is a central goal of artificial intelligence. This course aims to provide an understanding of how far we are from this goal: what is and what is not possible today.

Contact us

Student Office at IDA

Contact: expedition@ida.liu.se

Visiting address: Room 3F:477B, Building E, Entrance 27/29, Floor 3, Campus Valla

Opening hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays between 12.15 and 13.00.

Registrar at IDA

Contact: registrator@ida.liu.se

Doctoral education at IDA

Contact: Anne Moe, Coordinator

E-mail: anne.moe@liu.se

Phone: +46 13 28 14 60

Management

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

News at IDA

AI and simulation lab equips teachers

Cutting‑edge IT and mobile communications research grows

National initiative to protect AI systems from cyberattacks

New Wallenberg Academy Fellows researching 6G and AI

Research on exoskeletons and cleaners receives SEK 16.7 million

Research on next-generation AI planning receives SEK 15 million

Centres of Excellence strengthen LiU’s research

Mutual reinforcement of ethics and trust in AI

First researchers in the new Fenomenmagasinet

Best research paper award for foundational work on knowledge graph construction

New doctor in Cognitive Science: Emma Mainza Chilufya

5 minutes with Dustin Stoltz

New cybersecurity lab at LiU

5 minutes with Josef Ginnerskov

5 minutes with Marshall Taylor

New doctor in Computer Science: Dominik Drexler

Dominik Drexler awarded the Lawson Scholarship for 2024

The researchers who need to be one step ahead

New doctor in Computer Science: Mina Niknafs

Millions raised to advance quality assurance of software

Machine Psychology – a bridge to general AI

Innovative idea for more effective cancer treatments rewarded

Best student paper award to Riley Capshaw

Shaping AI technology for the benefit of society globally

LiU at the forefront of strategic research

New doctor in Computer Science: Klervie Toczé

The focus period resulted in new collaborations for the climate

LiU receives SEK 232 million from the Swedish Research Council

Symposium aiming to improve the climate

AI may boost society's cybersecurity

Machine learning can give the climate a chance

Collaboration between humans and AI - focus for conference

New PhD thesis in Computer Science about social media interactions

A new doctor in Computer Science: George Osipov

AI and interdisciplinarity go hand in hand

Fredrik Löfgren has passed away suddenly

IEEE Linköping University Student Branch Wins 2023 Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

Robots are common in the care of older adults

Game at work – for your health

Best poster award for knowledge graph technology

Best paper award in automated planning

WASP extended with a new initiative: AI for Science

International recognition for AI researcher at LiU

ISY Day 2024 – AI in Society, Education, and Research

Kickoff Conference for SweCSS

Synthetic images can save a lot of time in healthcare

Developing medical AI without sharing sensitive information

Developing artificial intelligence that benefits society

Apply to Visiting Fellows Program at SweCSS

Erik Sandewall, one of LiU's pioneers, has passed away

Job vacancies at IDA

Research at IDA

Cybersecurity

WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Other large industrial collaborations and national strategic research areas

TAILOR – A European network of AI excellence centres

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

Adaptive Software for the Heterogenous Edge-Cloud-Continuum - ASTECC

ELLIIT - a network for Information and Communication Technology

Security Link

More projects at IDA and centra/laboratories for collaboration

Cybersecurity lab at LiU

The joy in reading – a co-design project around students’ interaction with social robots

Center for Advanced Research in Emergency Response - CARER

AI literacy in Swedish Teacher Education

Sports Analytics

Wireless Optimization and Analytics

Professional Self-efficacy, Emotional challenges and Moral stress in Teacher and Medical Education

Resilient Information and Control Systems (RICS)

Security and Networks

Database and Web Information Systems

Design and Policy

Cybersecurity lab at LiU

Computational Cardio-Oncology

The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science

The Climate Change Megagame

Changing the game of consumption

Telecommunications for Smart Cities