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.

Calendar

Events

News at IDA

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03 March 2026

RESIST is recruiting in cyber resilient AI

RESIST is recruiting seven PhD students and two postdocs to strengthen Sweden’s position in secure and trustworthy AI. The positions are part of the national center for cyber resilient AI.

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19 February 2026

Vivian Vimarlund – the researcher who shaped the role of digitalisation in the future of healthcare

For more than three decades, Vivian Vimarlund has contributed to the development of health informatics through models and methods used to identify and evaluate the effects of digital innovations and e‑health services in healthcare.

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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.

Job vacancies at IDA

Job Published To Employment Type External ID City Institution Occupational Area Position URL
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 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
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
Postdoc in Cryo-EM Image Reconstruction and Volumetric Analysis 2026-03-30 Time limited employment (temporary) IFM-2026-00054 Linkoping IFM - Department of Physics, Biology and Chemistry Teachers and Scientists https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28590
PhD student in Statistics and Machine Learning 2026-04-10 Time limited employment (temporary) IDA-2026-00049 Linkoping IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28601
Assistant professor in Mathematical Analysis 2026-03-31 Time limited employment (temporary) LiU-2026-00738 Linkoping MAI - Department of Mathematics Teachers and Scientists https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28612
PhD student in Medical Science 2026-03-23 Time limited employment (temporary) BKV-2026-00160 Linkoping BKV - Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28629
PhD Students in Cyberresilient AI 2026-04-01 Time limited employment (temporary) IDA-2026-00059 Linkoping IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28676
Postdoc on Trustworthy AI 2026-04-01 Time limited employment (temporary) IDA-2026-00062 Linkoping IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science Teachers and Scientists https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28678
Postdoc in Mathematical Optimization of Dose Planning for Radiation Treatment 2026-04-15 Time limited employment (temporary) MAI-2026-00012 Linkoping MAI - Department of Mathematics Teachers and Scientists https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28686
PhD Student for Sustainable and Resource-Efficient Machine Learning 2026-04-24 Time limited employment (temporary) IDA-2026-00060 Linkoping IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28717
PhD student in Computational Cryo-EM and Structural Biology 2026-04-13 Time limited employment (temporary) IFM-2026-00053 Linkoping IFM - Department of Physics, Biology and Chemistry PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28719
PhD students in Ethnic and Migration Studies 2026-04-10 Time limited employment (temporary) IKOS-2026-00049 Norrkoping IKOS - Department of Culture and Society PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28721
Postdoc in efficient and robust decentralized AI 2026-05-15 Time limited employment (temporary) LiU-2026-01297 Linkoping ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering Teachers and Scientists https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28722
PhD student in AI Security 2026-04-20 Time limited employment (temporary) LiU-2026-01325 Linkoping ISY - Department of Electrical Engineering PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28735
PhD Students in Culture and Society 2026-04-10 Time limited employment (temporary) IKOS-2026-00043 Norrkoping IKOS - Department of Culture and Society PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28741
Teaching assistants in Applied Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics 2026-03-30 Extrajob IEI-2026-00178 Linkoping IEI - Department of Management and Engineering Student https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28756
PhD student in Cybersecurity 2026-04-20 Time limited employment (temporary) IDA-2026-00054 Linkoping IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28759
PhD student in Machine learning 2026-04-13 Time limited employment (temporary) IDA-2026-00086 Linkoping IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28781
Statistician 2026-04-03 Permanent employment BKV-2026-00103 Linkoping BKV - Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Technical and Administrative personnel https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28788
Postdoctor in Ageing and Social Change 2026-04-24 Time limited employment (temporary) IKOS-2026-00033 Norrkoping IKOS - Department of Culture and Society Teachers and Scientists https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28790
AI Training Program Officer at the AI factory Mimer 2026-04-14 Permanent employment LiU-2026-01448 Linkoping NAISS - Nationell Akademisk Infrastruktur för Superdatorer i Sverige Technical and Administrative personnel https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28812
Postdoc in Optimization 2026-04-09 Time limited employment (temporary) MAI-2026-00027 Linkoping MAI - Department of Mathematics Teachers and Scientists https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28816
Team Lead – AI Technology & Tools 2026-04-10 Permanent employment LiU-2026-00935 Linkoping NAISS - Nationell Akademisk Infrastruktur för Superdatorer i Sverige Technical and Administrative personnel https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28820
PhD student in semantic and goal-oriented communications with focus on cloud-assisted artificial intelligence and control systems 2026-04-20 Time limited employment (temporary) LiU-2026-01509 Norrkoping ITN - Department of Science and Technology PhD students https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28823
Application experts in Life Sciences for AI-factory Mimer 2026-04-07 Permanent employment LiU-2026-01455 Linkoping NAISS - Nationell Akademisk Infrastruktur för Superdatorer i Sverige Technical and Administrative personnel https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/28824

Research at IDA

Other large industrial collaborations and national strategic research areas 

More projects at IDA and centra/laboratories for collaboration 

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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.

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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.

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RESIST - Resilience and Security for Trustworthy AI Systems

Our vision is to make Sweden a role model in secure trustworthy AI by pioneering cyber resilience across the AI lifecycle.

Doctoral studies

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

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

All staff at IDA

Address

Postal Address

Linköping University
Department of Computer and Information Science
581 83 Linköping
Sweden

Visiting Address

Building B, entrance 25 - 29
Building E, entrance 27C - 29C
Mäster Mattias väg, Campus Valla

More AI initiatives

Awards

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Best research paper award for foundational work on knowledge graph construction

Olaf Hartig, Dept of Computer and Information Science, has won the Best Research Paper Award at the ESWC 2025 conference, which is one of the top conferences on knowledge graphs and semantic web technologies, a subfield of artificial intelligence.

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Dominik Drexler awarded the Lawson Scholarship for 2024

Dominik Drexler, who recently received his PhD at the Department of Computer and Information Science, is awarded the Lawson Scholarship for excellent achievements in internationalisation, international contacts and international exchange at IDA.

Innovative idea for more effective cancer treatments rewarded

Lisa Menacher has been awarded the 2024 Christer Gilén Scholarship in statistics and machine learning for her master’s thesis. She utilised machine learning in an effort to make the selection of cancer treatments more effective.

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Award winners at IDA in 2023

We are proud to present awards received by students, teachers and researchers at the Department of Computer and Information Science, IDA, Linköping University.

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