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The Division of Statistics and Machine Learning (STIMA)

The Division of Statistics and Machine Learning is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The research and teaching activities at the division are focused on modern data analysis. 

Research

STIMA is a division of Statistics and Machine Learning that belongs to a department of computer science. This fact makes us unique in Sweden, and we like to view ourselves as Sweden's most modern division of statistics with a clear focus on state-of-the-art data analysis, prediction and decision making in complex systems.

We are engaged in basic methodological research, motivated by a wide range of problems in areas that span from journalism and psychology to genetics and robotics.

Teaching

The division hosts the unique bachelor's programme Statistics and Data Analysis and the international master's programme Statistics and Machine Learning.

We are responsible for the course in machine learning taught at the engineering programmes at Linköping University, as well as the PhD study programme in Statistics.


Seminar series at STIMA

STIMA leads two popular research seminar series

IDA Machine Learning Seminars

The Machine Learning Research Group at IDA invites to the research seminar series IDA Machine Learning Seminars. Welcome!

Seminars in Statistics and Mathematical Statistics

Here you can find all information about our seminars. Warm welcome!

News at STIMA

News and major articles

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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The focus period resulted in new collaborations for the climate

In the fall of 2024, researchers from around the world once again gathered at Linköping University for ELLIIT's five-week focus period. This time, the goal was to initiate and deepen collaborations in climate research using machine learning.
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Symposium aiming to improve the climate

In the fall of 2024, Linköping University once again hosted ELLIIT's five-week-long focus period. This guest researcher program aimed for greater breadth in interdisciplinarity this year, with the theme of machine learning for climate science.

Research at STIMA

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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.
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ELLIIT

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.

ELLIIT

Latest publications

2025

Robert Thornberg, Linda Wänström, Björn Sjögren, Jun Sung Hong, Ylva Bjereld, Silvia Edling, Peter Edward Gill (2025) Well-functioning class climate and classroom prevalence of bullying victims: a short-term longitudinal class-Level path analysis Social Psychology of Education, Vol. 28, Article 158 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Amirhossein Ahmadian, Fredrik Lindsten (2025) Improved Contrastive Predictive Coding for Time Series Out-Of-Distribution Detection Applied to Human Activity Data Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 197, p. 132-138 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Linda Wänström, Robert Thornberg (2025) A 4-Year Longitudinal Validation Study of the School Bullying Victimization Scale (SBVS) and the School Bullying Perpetration Scale (SBPS) for Students in Middle Childhood and Adolescence Psychology of Violence (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Andreas Lindholm, Fredrik Lindsten (2025) Learning dynamical systems with particle stochastic approximation em FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Louis Ohl, Fredrik Lindsten (2025) Discriminative ordering through ensemble consensus
Jonas Bjermo, Ellinor Fackle‐Fornius, Frank Miller (2025) Optimizing calibration designs with uncertainty in abilities British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maciej K. Wozniak, Hariprasath Govindarajan, Marvin Klingner, Camille Maurice, B. Ravi Kiran, Senthil Yogamani (2025) S3PT: Scene Semantics and Structure Guided Clustering to Boost Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Autonomous Driving 2025 IEEE/CVF WINTER CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER VISION, WACV, p. 1660-1670 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
J. R. Andersson, O. Kochukhov, Zheng Zhao, J. Sjolund (2025) Probabilistic Zeeman-Doppler imaging of stellar magnetic fields: I. Analysis of t Scorpii in the weak-field limit Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 699, Article A63 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ioannis Athanasiadis, Fredrik Lindsten, Michael Felsberg (2025) Prior Learning in Introspective VAEs Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Vol. 06, p. 1-41 (Article in journal)
Xiao-Pan Hu, Bayu Brahmantio, Krzysztof Bartoszek, Martin J. Lercher (2025) Most bacterial gene families are biased toward specific chromosomal positions Science, Vol. 388, p. 186-191 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Teaching - Bachelor and Master's programme

Bachelor's Programme in Statistics and Data Analysis, 180 credits

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Statistics and Machine Learning, Master's Programme, 120 credits

The intersection of statistics, artificial intelligence and database management, providing students a unique competence. Meets the demand for specialists able to exploit a wealth of information to improve analysis, prediction and decision making.

PhD studies

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Graduate Studies in Statistics

The doctoral program is intended to provide graduate students with a deep, foundational education in statistics, along with further in-depth knowledge in the student’s chosen area of specialisation.
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Doctoral studies in Computer Science

Computer Science is an interdisciplinary subject area, covering everything from basic studies of algorithms, computational processes, and knowledge representation to informatics and computer linguistics.

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Management

Head of Division

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Fredrik Lindsten

Professor, Head of Division

Head of Unit Statistics (STAT)

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Frank Miller

Professor, Head of Unit

Head of Unit Machine Learning (ML)

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Jose M Pena

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Unit

Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Jolanta Pielaszkiewicz

Associate Professor

Staff at STIMA

All staff

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Johan Alenlöv
Lecturer
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Martin Andrae
PhD student
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Sourabh Balgi
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Krzysztof Bartoszek
Senior Associate Professor
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Jonas Bjermo
Postdoc
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Bayu Brahmantio
PhD student
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Marc Braun
PhD student
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Gabriel Ducrocq
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Filip Ekström Kelvinius
PhD student
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Hariprasath Govindarajan
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Anders Grimvall
Professor Emeritus
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Ann-Charlotte Hallberg
Lecturer
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Isak Hietala
Lecturer
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Adhithyan Kalaivanan
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Woodrow Hao Chi Kiang
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Erik Larsson
PhD student
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Fredrik Lindsten
Professor, Head of Division
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Sebastian Mair
Assistant Professor
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Lisa Menacher
PhD student
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Frank Miller
Professor, Head of Unit
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Hugo Morvan
Research Assistant
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Shashi Nagarajan
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Louis Ohl
Postdoc
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Joel Oskarsson
PhD student
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Jose M Pena
Senior Associate Professor, Head of Unit
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Jolanta Pielaszkiewicz
Associate Professor
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Dong Qian
Postdoc
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Oleg Sysoev
Senior Associate Professor
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Annika Tillander
Associate Professor
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Bertil Wegmann
Associate Professor
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Josef Wilzén
Lecturer
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Linda Wänström
Associate Professor, Docent
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Zheng Zhao
Assistant Professor

About the department

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

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