Digital Futures Open Research Days on April 18-19, 2024

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Welcome to Digital Futures Open Research Days, a rich program that covers research projects, partners, and panel discussions. The event is ONSITE at the Architecture School building, KTH main campus, Stockholm.

• Welcome, presentations, lightning talks, and panel discussions are at A108, floor 1.
• Registration, coffee, lunch, breakout sessions and mingling are located at the Digital Futures hub, floor 2.

PROGRAM – preliminary

08:30-09:00 Registration & Coffee

09:00-09:15  Welcome and Introduction at A108, floor 1, Mikael Lindström, Professor and Deputy President of KTH Royal Institute of Technology

09:15-09:45  6G – Communication, Sensing, Computing

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Nicolas Tsiftes
  • PERCy – Perceptive Dependable Cellular Networks for Road Transport (Sajad Daei Omshi) – 3 min
  • Emergence 2.0: Securing Edge Networks with a Programmable Intelligent Architecture (Nicolas Tsiftes) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: PERCy – Perceptive Dependable Cellular Networks for Road Transport (Sajad Daei Omshi)
  • Station 2: Emergence 2.0: Securing Edge Networks with a Programmable Intelligent Architecture (Nicolas Tsiftes)

09:45-10:00  COFFEE BREAK (Digital Futures hub, floor 2)

10:00-12:00  Partner Session at A108, floor 1

• • 10:00 Welcome by James Gross, Professor KTH, Associate Director for Partner Programme Digital Futures
  • 10:10 The IoT Platform by Maria Holm, Project Manager IoT Platform, City of Stockholm
  • 10:30 5G Mobile Healthcare Innovative Solutions by Fredrik Engströmer, Head of Innovation, Region Stockholm
  • 10:50 Smart Construction for Smart Cities by Ulf Håkansson, Technical Manager, Skanska and Mats Rönnbo, Sustainovation Director, Skanska
  • 11:10 Panel discussion: Digital Twins and Divides – a Stockholm forecast 2040 – moderated by James Gross with panellists:
    • Yifang Ban, Professor, Head of Division Geoinformatics, KTH
    • Karin Ekdahl Wästberg, Innovation Director, City of Stockholm
    • Magnus Frodigh, Vice President, Head of Ericsson Research
    • Magnus Persson, Member of the Regional Assembly Stockholm
    • Jonas Romfelt Senior Director Product Development. Water infrastructure, Xylem
  • 11:50  Conclusion by James Gross

12:00 – 13:00  LUNCH & Postdocs Poster Session II (Digital Futures hub, floor 2)

1. 1. Connecting Bodies: Designing Shape-changing Wearables to Improve Remote Body-based Communication​ (Laia Turmo Vidal​)
   2. Fairness and Bias of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies in Education: Challenges and Future Directions (Yael Feldman)
   3. Generalizing hardware acceleration for nonlinear functions (Hui Chen)
   4. Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Terahertz Communications for Wireless Extended Reality (Chen Chen)
   5. Partner Postdoc Fellow Project in Environmental impacts of digitalization based on LCA (Anna Furberg)
   6. Technology Mediated Collective Caring through Menstrual and Reproductive Journeys (Anupriya Tuli)

13:00-13:30  Digitalized Medicine

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Elena Gutierrez Farewik
  • Digitizing Brain Data for Health and Disease (dBRAIN) (Erik Fransen) – 5 min
  • Data-driven cardiovascular assist devices (Emanuele Perra) – 3 min
  • Spatiotemporal reconstruction with learned deformations for earlier cancer detection via PET imaging (Massimiliano Colarieti Tosti) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: Data-driven cardiovascular assist devices (Emanuele Perra)
  • Station 2: Spatiotemporal reconstruction with learned deformations for earlier cancer detection via PET imaging (Massimiliano Colarieti Tosti)
  • Station 3: dBRAIN – Biomarker identification using machine learning on Parkinson’s disease eye tracking data (Gonzalo Uribarri)
  • Station 4: dBRAIN – In silico investigation of the impact of Parkinson’s disease on striatal network connectivity and cortico-striatal drive (Ilaria Carannante)

13:30-14:20  Digitalized Health Care

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Tobias Oechtering
  • Explainable and Ethical Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery from Medical Data Sources (EXTREMUM) (Panagiotis Papapetrou) – 5 min
  • Learning and Sharing under Privacy constraints (DataLEASH) (Tobias Oechtering) – 5 min
  • Advanced Magnetic Resonance Elastography for the Brain​ (Rodrigo Moreno) – 3 min
  • Digital Twins of Human Neuromusculoskeletal System: Challenges and Future Perspectives in Personalized Neuro-rehabilitation​ (Ruoli Wang) – 3 min
  • Deep camera-based movement analysis for remote rehabilitation and physical therapy (Panagiota Papadopoulou) – 3 min
  • Virtual Baby Platform​/AI-based Positioning and Personalization Platform for Human Body Models (HBMs) (Xiaogai Li) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 30 min
  • Session 1 (15 min):
    • Station 1: Advanced Magnetic Resonance Elastography for the Brain​ (Rodrigo Moreno)
    • Station 2: Digital Twins of Human Neuromusculoskeletal System: Challenges and Future Perspectives in Personalized Neuro-rehabilitation​ (Ruoli Wang)
    • Station 3: EXTREMUM – Developments in counterfactual explainability (Cristian Rojas)
    • Station 4: DataLEASH – Privacy-preserving textual training data in the age of large language models (Hercules Dalianis)
    • Station 5: DataLEASH – Randomised response mechanisms with optimal privacy-utility tradeoff (Leonhard Grosee)
  • Session 2 (15 min):
    • Station 1: Virtual Baby Platform​/AI-based Positioning and Personalization Platform for Human Body Models (HBMs) (Xiaogai Li)
    • Station 2: Deep camera-based movement analysis for remote rehabilitation and physical therapy (Panagiota Papadopoulou)
    • Station 3: EXTREMUM – The Challenge of Embedding Law into AI (Stanley Greenstein)

14:20-15:10  AI for Biology

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Viktoria Fodor
  • Data-Limited Learning of Complex Dynamical Systems (Veronique Chotteau) – 5 min
  • Robotic Matter (Kerem Kaya) – 5 min
  • Engineering biodegradable components for packaging digitalization (Erica Zeglio)  – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: Engineering biodegradable components for packaging digitalization (Erica Zeglio)
  • Station 2: Data-Limited Learning of Complex Dynamical Systems – Transcriptomics guided modelling of bioproduction (Meeri Mäkinen)
  • Station 3: Data-Limited Learning of Complex Dynamical Systems – Data-limited learning for CPS: a case study (Oscar Eriksson, John Wikman, Robert Marczuk Bereza-Jarocinski)
  • Station 4: Data-Limited Learning of Complex Dynamical Systems – DeepBayes – an estimator for parameter estimation in stochastic nonlinear dynamical models (Anubhab Ghosh)
  • Station 5: Robotic Matter (Kerem Kaya)

15:10-15:30 COFFEE BREAK (Digital Futures hub, floor 2)

15:30-15:55  Safe and Smart Power Systems

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Jan Kronqvist
  • AI Techniques for Power Systems Under Cyberattacks ( Jan Kronqvist) – 3 min
  • Autonomous coordination and control of smart converters for sustainable power systems (Qianwen Xu) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: AI Techniques for Power Systems Under Cyberattacks (Shudian Zhao)
  • Station 2: Autonomous coordination and control of smart converters for sustainable power systems (Qianwen Xu)

15:55-16:25  Trustworthy Software and Systems

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Philipp Haller
  • Causal Reasoning for Real-Time Attack Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems (Kiarash Kazari) – 3 min
  • Cyber Safety Cage for Networks (Roberto Guanciale) – 3 min
  • PORTALS: Teleporting smart edge services to a serverless future (Philipp Haller) – 3 min
  • New Chip Architectures for Industrial Vision (Ahmed Hemani) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: Causal Reasoning for Real-Time Attack Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems (Kiarash Kazari)
  • Station 2: Cyber Safety Cage for Networks (Roberto Guanciale)
  • Station 3: PORTALS: Teleporting smart edge services to a serverless future (Philipp Haller)
  • Station 4: New Chip Architectures for Industrial Vision (Ahmed Hemani)

16:25-16:30 Closing

End of Day