CSC Information meeting
 September 8th , 2016

New employees
 
 Welcome!!!


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PDC Aleksei Iupinov, Research Engineer Timo Ilaro Korhonen, Systems administrator Mao Wei Nilsson, Research Engineer

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TCS Jesùs Giráldes Crù, Postdoctor Roelef Pieters, Research Engineer Joseph Swernofsky, Ph.D Student

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TMH Christine Ericsdotter, Researcher

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CST Laeeq Ahmed, Ph.D Student Chengjie Li, Research Engineer Marcus Dicander, Lecturer Johannes Hjorth, Researcher Igor Merkulow, Ph.D Student Robin Palmberg, Research Engineer Sergio Rivas Gomez, Research Engineer Emil Wärnberg, Research Engineer Yu Yang, Research Engineer

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MID Hanna Kristina Andersen, Research Engineer Elinor Areskog, Research Engineer André Holzapfel, Assistant professor Pedro Sanches, Researcher

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CVAP Rika Antonova, Ph.D Student Ioalanda, Margerete Dos Santos Carvalho Leite, Assistant Professor Johan Ekström, Research Engineer Ondrej Holesovsky, Research Engineer Mia Kokic, Ph.D Student John Pertoft, Research Engineer Andrzej Marek Pronobis, Postdoctor Fabian Schilling, Research Engineer Elena Sibirtseva, Ph.D Student Lucas Åström, Research Engineer

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New Faculty Assistant professor • Ioalanda Leite, in Socially aware ICT • André Holzapfel, in Media Technology, 
 spec. Sound and Music Computing • Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen, in Media Technology, 
 spec. Sound and Music Computing

! Affiliated faculty • Samer Al Moubayed, in Social robotics

! Docent • Arvind Kumar, in Computer Science

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Emil Hagestål, Service assistant


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Maria Engman, HR administrator


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Information and reminders from HR

Maria Widlund

Salary review 2016 ➢ Negotiations at central part of KTH are soon done! ➢

! Joint information from KTH !

➢ Employed at KTH,1 October 2016. Excluded are employees that already have 2016 year’s salary and PhDs that follow the ”ladder”.

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➢ New salaries will be valid from 1 October 2016 and earliest paid in December 2016.

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Process: All employees will be offered a Salary Dialogue (lönesamtal) with their manager to evaluate last year’s performance - before 30 September.

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* Members in Saco will also have an individual Salary Review Dialogue (lönesättande samtal) with their managers – mid October.

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* Members in ST will have the same process as last year i.e. central parts (employer and union) will negotiate their salaries.

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READ: Tips and advice on salary dialogues

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Service Center Sara Johansson

Projects 1. Windows - The main building – 10-year-plan - Phase 1 and 2 – deadline mid of September 2. Interactive displays - Project with students – 3 screens at each entrance (LV 3, TR14 and LV24) 1) Use the KTH system for premises and finding people at KTH (KTH places, search for employees) 2) Easy way to get information/communication about the school

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…and some projects 3. Booking system for meetings with digital screens - Book a meeting from your KTH webmail - Book a meeting on the screen

! ! Thank you for feedback, we have some and we´re on it! ☺

! If you need help or have any question [email protected] and we will help you!

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Register your expenses in KTH-RES Read more on CSC intranät ENG Leader / Project manager / Purchase, costs and payments / Expenses SVE Ledare / Forskningsprojektledare / Inköp, kostnader och utbetalningar / Utlägg

! ! Purchases should primarily follow procurement rules and be paid via invoice to KTH ENG Service / Purchase / Purchasing procedures SVE Service / Inköp / Inköpsrutiner

CSC Finances 2016-06-30 Tina Billing

January – June 2016 (MSEK)

Jan-June Jan-June Change 2016 2015 Income

200

197

+ 2%

Costs

191

192

- 1%

Profit/ loss

+9

+5

Budgeted and estimated profit/loss 2016 (MSEK)

2015

Budget 2016

Estimate 2016

Education

3

0

6

Research

-6

-1

-2

Total

-3

-1

4

Agency Capital Education (MSEK)

Dec 2015 Profit Jan – June 2016 June 2016

0 11 11

Agency Capital Research (MSEK)

Dec 2015 Loss Jan – June 2016 Transfered to Rektor June 2016

76 -1 -21 54

Strategic investments financed by CSC agency capital from 2016 Assistant professors 2-3 financed by • Rektor 6 M/anställning • CSC 3 M/anställning • Department 3 M/anställning

! Software Labs financed by • CSC 5M • Department TCS 5M

! Center for Art, Technology and Design financed by • Rektor 5M • CSC 2,5 M • Department MID 2,5 M

GRU – Basic education Olov Engwall

GRU statistics – looking good, … or? What

Statistics

Admissio Datateknik: 20% n% Medieteknik: 57% women HST, HPR Increase in HST and HPR, in particular at master level MSc

46 VT16, 500 accumulated 2013-16

Economy

+11Mkr VT16, budget 2016: ±0; guess: +6 Mkr

Analysis CS still below goal, but has increased by 30% since 2015, ≈50% since 2013, and 400% since 2005. Thanks to Johanna Järnfeldt, Carina Edlund et al.! More students from other programs in CS courses, less CS students drop out. Higher fulfillment in courses. More Master students, incl. paying. More MSc theses! 90% goal fulfillment (555, 2013-16). Considered “impossible” to reach. More MSc theses: Need for supervisors Shortage of teachers. We must employ new teachers.

Time reporting by TAs New TAs must be approved by HR. Pool of TAs will be created. •

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New regulations from KTH mean that TA preparation time needs to be reported explicitly (it used to be included in the hourly pay). Preparation time should be added to the time reported for each scheduled hour, on the same date and tasks as the scheduled event. Nominally, and maximum: • Handledn: +15min/h, Övn: +1h/h, Föreläsn: +2h/h, Annat/Föreberedelse:+0min/h. New interface: Only hh:mm (not Start, Stop) Tillägg obtid (for scheduled task after 19:00 and weekends) must be reported separately.

“Programstrukturutredningsremiss” Report suggesting how KTH education should be organized Main conclusions/suggestions: • MSc in Engineering, rather than MScE+MSc+BSc • Today: Broad variety of (sometimes small) programs: sub-optimal? unclear? But comparable to international universities • More applied project work together with companies in the education • Trainee work as part of the education (“praktik”) • More “lifelong learning” courses (FoV) • More focus on what employers require (rather than program entry) • More flexibility and student choices

Questions asked by KTH KTH Schools should comment on the report, “challenges”, “solutions” Challenges: 1. Unbalanced recruitment (gender etc) 2. Clarity of MScE profile and common MScE features: what is a MScE? 3. Unclear entries: what are the differences between the programs? 4. Lack of student choice in the program curriculum 5. Difficulties to find interdisciplinary challenges 6. Increased throughput of students Solutions? 1. Keep today’s programs, but all/some have common year 1 2. 5-7 entry programs years 1-2, students then select specialization 3. One entry program. Student’s own selection of courses gives profile

Tentative CSC answers on the report Please give input if you have an opinion on the feedback •

MScE degree only good. But: BScE possibility for those who do not complete. And: specialization (major/minor) in degree name.

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CDATE (CSC) and CINTE (ICT) indeed similar. Difference: school and geography. But: programs with 300 students are difficult to handle unless pedagogy/infrastructure change (lecture halls etc)

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Cross-school programs necessary to form broader programs (e.g., Media/ICT Management together with ITM school).

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Applied project work with companies excellent (MVK). But need for mutual partnership (companies adhere to hiring MScE, not MScE students) to avoid more student drop-out.

Tentative CSC answers on the report (2) Please give input if you have an opinion on the feedback •

Trainee courses a splendid idea, but difficulty to promise a relevant internship for all students. Hence: elective course; students find internship themselves.

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Lifelong learning courses: More funding, more administrative support, more teachers needed, but in general positive.

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Industry impact on curriculum: long vs. short term need, who is “industry”?

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Flexibility in curriculum good (CSC students have relatively large flexibility), but fulfillment of national exam criteria must be checked early and by others than the student.

Tentative CSC answers on ”challenges” •

Unbalanced recruitment: Can be solved with efforts within existing programs. Program profiles are required, since students want to make an informed choice.

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What is a MScE: A common basis needed, but not common year 1.

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Unclear entries: Agreed, but students demand program profiles and profile courses at the start. Only common (math, physics, mechanics, programming) courses year 1 would not give a clearer profile or better recruitment. Rather: Easier to change between programs.

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Lack of individual choice: Examination criteria are quite firm; can students really choose entirely freely and fulfill them?

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Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab (CVAP)

Robotics, Perception, and Learning (RPL) Hedvig Kjellström

As of September 1, CVAP is changing name Robotics, Perception and Learning (RPL)

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Represents more clearly what we do today: • Robotics: Mobile robotics, control, grasping and manipulation, human-robot interaction and collaboration • Perception: Computer Vision, prediction and inference from other types of sensor data • Learning: Machine Learning, development of learning algorithms for vision and robotics

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A bit of history 1984: Computational Vision and Associative Pattern Processing Lab (CVAP) is started by Prof Jan Olof-Eklundh

! Around 1990: Change of name to Computational Vision and Active Perception Lab (CVAP) – More and more focus on Active Vision

! 1992: The active head Charlie – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lH0DKWpu1w

! 1996: Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS) is started by Prof Henrik Cristensen – Robotics in addition to Computer Vision and Active Vision research at CVAP

A bit of history Around 2000: Change of name to Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab (CVAP) – Computer Vision is now the established name of the research area

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Around 2005: Machine Learning is becoming more and more important for both Computer Vision and Robotics – Machine Learning in addition to Computer Vision, Active Vision, and Robotics research at CVAP

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2016: Change of name to Robotics, Perception, and Learning (RPL)

BIT Johan Hoffman

BIT ([email protected]) Remaining ITA centralisations AFS cell migration (almost done) Server migration: final reminder!

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Ongoing Simplify process for small IT purchases ITA develops process for more advanced IT requests

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BIT: Mattias Wiggberg (stab), Christian Smith (education), Johan Hoffman (research)
 ITR/GRU-ITR: representation of faculty /GRU

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ERC Starting Grant:
 Distributed & Dynamic 
 Algorithms & Complexity
 (DisDyn) Danupon Nanongkai

Purpose and Aims •

Dynamic graphs: Graph keep changing

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Distributed graphs: Graph from different sources

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Goals: (1) New algorithms by combining ideas from two areas. (2) Prove impossibilities (a.k.a develop complexity theory).

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Dyn

1. Unified algorithms

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Specific problems • •

Shortest paths Min-cut

Budget & Plan • •

~ 1.5M EUR for 2017-2021 2 students + 1 postdoc (2 years).

! I’m looking for students!

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KTH Opportunities Fund

• For students, PhD students or organizations • More than 200 projects • Apply before October 7 • Kth.se/opportunities

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WASP positions advertised • WASP – Wallenberg Autonomous Systems Program • Several positions at KTH, Lund, Chalmers or Linköping • Apply before September 30 • Wasp-sweden.org

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CSC labs

• For students, PhD students or organizations • More than 200 projects • Apply before October 7 • Kth.se/opportunities

! https://www.kth.se/ opportunities

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