I januari 2022 går startskottet för WASP-ED, ett nytt nationellt utvecklingsprogram för utbildning inom artificiell intelligens (AI). Det står klart efter ett besked om att programmet får ett anslag på 18,6 miljoner kronor i anslag från Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs stiftelse.
The two largest research programs in Sweden, the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) and the SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), will team up in a new collaborative effort, with the ultimate goal of solving ground breaking research questions and to create synergies across disciplines.
During 2020, several WASP-funded PhD students and senior researchers have received prestigious awards for their scientific findings. We let the authors describe their awarded papers.
An enthusiastic and driven leader acceded to the post of WASP Program Director during summer. A challenge well suited for this expert in scientific visualization - Professor Anders Ynnerman.
A WASP Research Arena for Software sees its dawn. The WARA for Software aims to enable software research in close collaboration between WASP’s academic and industrial partners.
“Artificial intelligence has to be able to both reason and learn new things. What I particularly like is that Örebro University is strong in both these areas.”, says Luc De Raedt, new Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI at Örebro University.
“People now live better than kings did a couple of hundred years ago – thanks to science. The best way to help the Billions of people still living in poverty and not destroy the planet is to make science more efficient”, says Professor Ross King, one of the new Wallenberg Chairs recruitments to WASP, and the creator of the Robot Scientist.
Tre WASP-forskare har nyligen mottagit utmärkelser för sina arbeten. Särskilt märks Best Student Paper till doktoranden Kathlén Kohn, KTH för sitt framstående arbete inom matematik för AI.
