Optimization, community, and five weeks in Sweden

Optimization, community, and five weeks in Sweden

The focus period on Optimization for Learning was hosted by Lund University from mid-April to May 22. Henry Shugart, third-year PhD student from the University of Pennsylvania, spent the whole focus period in Lund at the Department of Automatic Control. When Henry...

Henrik Sjöland

Focus Period Lund 2027 Professor Lund University (Sweden) Henrik Sjöland received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in 1997, both from Lund University, Lund, Sweden. In 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of...

Buon Kiong Lau

Focus Period lund 2027 Professor Lund University (Sweden) Buon Kiong Lau received the B.Eng. degree with first-class honors from the University of Western Australia in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Curtin University of Technology, Australia,...

Daniel Sjöberg

Focus Period lund 2027 Professor Lund University (Sweden) Daniel Sjöberg received the M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics in 1996, the Licentiate degree in Engineering in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering in 2001, all from Lund University, Lund, Sweden. He was...

Mats Pettersson

Focus Period Lund 2027 Professor Blekinge Institute of Technology – BTH (Sweden) Mats Pettersson received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has more...
The art and science of optimization

The art and science of optimization

The second ELLIIT focus period taking place in spring of 2026 is hosted by Lund University, and concerns optimization for learning. The focus period symposium took place in beginning of May, bringing together 80 attendees for discussing theory and practice of...

David Massanés

Focus Period  Halmstad University 2026 PhD student Osnabrück University (Germany) David Massanés is a PhD candidate at Osnabrück University. His research focuses on complex temporal data, with a strong emphasis on explainable and interpretable methods. He is...

Anna Pazola

Focus Period Halmstad University 2026 PhD student Brunel University of London (UK) Anna is a PhD candidate in the London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership, jointly hosted by the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University of London, and the Department of...

Mohammad Khoshkdahan

Focus Period Halmstad University 2026 PhD student Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) Mohammad Khoshkdahan is a PhD student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He previously worked as a student researcher at Mercedes-Benz and completed his...