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Completed Postdoc fellowships

Postdoc fellowships are part of the Digital Futures mobility program. This funding program has supported talented early-career researchers in pursuing their research ideas in a new research group. 

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Data-Driven Design for Climate Action

Data-Driven Design for Climate Action

October 2022 - October 2024: Haluk Akay completed his doctoral research at MIT in mechanical engineering. His doctoral thesis developed methods to represent textual design data for computation by extracting structured...

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Data Work in Grassroots Community Organizing for Disability Justice

Data Work in Grassroots Community Organizing for Disability Justice

September 2021 - August 2023: Stacy Hsueh runs the project Role of data-intensive methods in health advocacy efforts for disabled communities...

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Decentralized Learning: Second-order, Online and Robust Algorithms with Convergence Guarantees

Decentralized Learning: Second-order, Online and Robust Algorithms with Convergence Guarantees

September 2022 - September 2024: Jiaojiao Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, runs the project Decentralized Learning: Second-order, Online and Robust...

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Deep Learning Approaches for Long-term Future Forecasting

Deep Learning Approaches for Long-term Future Forecasting

September 2020 - August 2022: Hao Hu is a postdoc researcher at KTH RPL working with Hossein Azizpour. Before joining KTH, he worked as a research scientist in FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL), California, United States.

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Deep Wetlands

Deep Wetlands

March 2022 - December 2023: Francisco J. Peña is a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of artificial intelligence and remote sensing. He works jointly at the Software and Computer System (SCS) division of KTH...

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Designing AI Technology for Interdependence with Sighted Guiding Companions

Designing AI Technology for Interdependence with Sighted Guiding Companions

October 2022 - October 2024: Beatrice Vincenzi, University of London, runs the project Designing AI Technology for Interdependence with Sighted Guiding Companions...

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Designing Gamified Robot-Enhanced Interventions for Children with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties

Designing Gamified Robot-Enhanced Interventions for Children with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties

September 2021 – September 2023: Arzu Guneysu Ozgur is a Postdoctoral researcher at Digital Futures. Arzu got a PhD in Robotics on “Designing Gamified Activities with Haptic-Enabled Tangible Robots for Therapy and Assistance” from EPFL, in 2021...

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Digital Transformations for Optimizing the Post-Pandemic Sustainable Smart City

Digital Transformations for Optimizing the Post-Pandemic Sustainable Smart City

March 2021 - February 2023: Stacy Vallis completed her doctoral studies in architecture at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her doctoral research responded to the risks to public urban safety...

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Distributed Optimization and Federated Learning in Emerging Smart Networks

Distributed Optimization and Federated Learning in Emerging Smart Networks

December 2020 - November 2022: Xuyang Wu is a Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Digital Futures, co-supervised by Prof. Mikael Johansson at KTH (DCS, EECS) and Prof. Sindri Magnússon at SU (DSV).

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Dragons: Data-Driven Algorithms and Governance for Networked Societies

Dragons: Data-Driven Algorithms and Governance for Networked Societies

November 2023 – October 2025: Corinna Coupette studied law at Bucerius Law School and Stanford Law School, completing a First...

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Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Terahertz Communications for Wireless Extended Reality

Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Terahertz Communications for Wireless Extended Reality

December 2023 - December 2025: Chen Chen received the B.E. degree from the East China University of Science and Technology, China...

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Foreignness as a conceptual framework for interaction design

Foreignness as a conceptual framework for interaction design

March 2020 - October 2023: Claudia Núñez-Pacheco is an interaction design researcher and artist. She holds a PhD and a master’s degree from the Sydney School of Design at the University of Sydney...

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Fusion of Radar and Optical Remote Sensing Time Series for Wildfire Monitoring with Deep Learning

Fusion of Radar and Optical Remote Sensing Time Series for Wildfire Monitoring with Deep Learning

November 2020 - October 2022: Puzhao Zhang received his PhD degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Xidian University, China at the end of 2019. His PhD research was focused on remote sensing...

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Gender inclusive cybersecurity

Gender inclusive cybersecurity

June 2021 - May 2023: Asreen Rostami holds a PhD in the area of HCI from Stockholm University. Her doctoral research was focused on the incorporation of interactive technologies...

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Generalizing hardware acceleration for nonlinear functions

Generalizing hardware acceleration for nonlinear functions

December 2023 – December 2025: Hui Chen received a PhD from Nanjing University in 2022, China. His major is information and communication engineering...

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How people are making the city smart – the role of algorithms in urban space

How people are making the city smart – the role of algorithms in urban space

December 2020 - August 2022: Mareike Glöss main research interest is understanding digital transformations and their diffusion into everyday life. She looks at how novel computing technologies are appropriated...

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Intelligence through reasoning

Intelligence through reasoning

September 2021 - August 2023: Patrick Hammer is a postdoc researcher at Stockholm University, Department of Psychology, with a PhD in Computer Science (AI track) at Temple University, Pennsylvania, United States...

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Intelligent wireless communications and high-accuracy positioning systems

Intelligent wireless communications and high-accuracy positioning systems

January 2021 - October/December 2022: Deyou Zhang is a Digital Futures Postdoc at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of KTH, supervised by Dr Ming Xiao, Co-supervised by Prof. Lihui Wang, and Dr Zhibo Pang...

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On The Feminist Design of Social Robots and Designing Robots For Young People, With Young People

On The Feminist Design of Social Robots and Designing Robots For Young People, With Young People

September 2020 - May 2022: After originally studying to be a mechanical engineer, Katie Winkle undertook a PhD in social robotics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK, where she...

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Privacy of online proctoring systems in higher education settings

Privacy of online proctoring systems in higher education settings

March 2022 - December 2023: Chantal Mutimukwe is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Computer Systems and Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University...

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Relational Aspects of Care in Intimate Digital Health Technologies

Relational Aspects of Care in Intimate Digital Health Technologies

October 2021 - August 2023: Deepika Yadav completed her PhD from the computer science department, IIIT-Delhi, India, in August 2021...

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Unraveling the potential of AI and Earth Observation for accurate population predictions in urban regions (POPAI)

Unraveling the potential of AI and Earth Observation for accurate population predictions in urban regions (POPAI)

September 2021 - August 2023: Stefanos Georganos is a research fellow at the Division of Geoinformatics, Royal Institute of Technology. He does research in quantitative human geography, remote sensing...

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