Workplace
Meeting
October 16, 2014
New employees
Welcome!!!
New professor in Media Technology at MID
Roberto Bresin
2014-10-16
New docent
Åke Walldius, MID
Christopher Peters, HPCViz
2014-10-16
New assistant professor at CB
Arvind Kumar
2014-10-16
New employees
New PhD students:
Alam Khan Mehmood – CB
Hojat Khosrowjerdi – TCS
Adam Schill Collberg – TCS
New lecturers:
Erik Johannesson – Lecturer MID
Jarmo Laaksohlati – Lecturer MID
Richard Glassey – Lecturer TCS
Other employments:
Emma Frid – Research engineer
Oscar Frykholm – Researcher
New Super Computer Beskow to be
inagurated January 27, 2015
Information from HR and
Service Center
News about the introduction process
Educations in Fire safety and CPR
Environmental training (online)
Equality and Diversity at the CSC school
News about the introduction
Monthly introduction
Introduction kit when visiting the Service Center
Monthly introduction
New employees get:
• Information on what type of help the deans office can offer
• USB with introductory material from KTH
• Short information about what they can find on the intranet
• A checkup that they have gotten settled at CSC and in
Stockholm
Mostly in 1448 the first Thursday every month. We will put up
a schedule on the intranet.
Introduction kit when visiting
the Service Center
New employees will get:
• Access to systems, email, keys, access cards etc.
• To login to some of the systems and register information
concerning residential address, closest relative, register
for Numero, etc
• Information folders about campus, the organization etc
• Information and booking for the next monthly introduction
session
• An introduction kit containing KTH branded products
Educations in Fire safety and
CPR
We plan to conduct training on fire safety and CPR during
weeks 47-51. The plan is that the training will be held in each
of the buildings.
Right now we are waiting for confirmation from the suppliers.
Environmental training (online)
The online environmental course provides basic knowledge
about KTH’s work with the environment and sustainable
development. This is a basic level course for all employees of
KTH. The course is divided into two modules:
• Environmental work at KTH (Time of study: 20 minutes)
• Environment and Sustainable Development (Time of
study: 30 minutes)
Equality and Diversity at the
CSC school
Activities from the last 12 months
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Start-up of the works council (2013-12-10)
Local advertising of local diversity projects
Meetings with Sissi Rizko around KTH joint venture in diversity
Seminar on JML Sissi Rizko
Involved in hiring a theater group that trained the students who works
with the introduction of new students
• Creating a more accessible web
• Submitted proposals to the UF:
• Suggestions for a more transparent recruitment process
• Suggestions for reviewing the recruitment process from a JML
perspective
Equality and Diversity at the
CSC school
Ongoing activities
• Broadened student recruitment- ensure that those seeking get a true
picture of what it means to search for the engineering program in
computer science concerning education and professional future.
• Train supervisors in "Project management skills from a multicultural /
diversity perspective"
• Project to attract more high school students to read distance in data (Olle
Bälter)
• Helping the data section of the data book rooms for meetings where they
program.
• Check our procedures regarding discrimination and harassment
• Review of the performance review templates
• In collaboration with KTH central HR department create a more
transparent recruitment process
Equality and Diversity at the
CSC school
Future plans
On the 4th of November the Work Council will have a meeting to
produce proposals for activities during 2015. Suggestions are welcome
and if you have an idea you can contact HR at humanresources@csc.kth.se
Salary review 2014
Still ongoing negotiations at KTH...
However, we have already started up with discussions to evaluate last year’s
performance.
You will be informed as soon as we get more information!
The yearly summary of
production
The yearly summary of production (aka
Årsredovisningsenkäten) will be electronically distributed to
all faculty and Ph.D. students.
Data will be summarized and sent for review to head of
department.
Your input is important – both for CSC and KTH centrally.
Watch out for a survey link in your inbox.
Assessment of local
administration
Dean´s office (aka staben) was centralized last autumn.
Some adjustments left to do.
We need your input to know what is working well and what to
adjust in order to work better.
An assessment of the local administration will hence be
performed during November and December.
A subset of employees and managers will be involved.
IT–operation & support
Anders Askenfelt
The Change
CSC System Group has joined
KTH IT-UNIT (ITA) and moved to
their facilities 1 Oct 2014
All IT-services are maintained.
Information
CSC Intra
http://intra.csc.kth.se/
KTH Social
https://www.kth.se/social/group/it-samordning/
IT-Support 1
RT-handling
RT-queue handled by ITA Support
(including former CSC System Group members)
Old and new addresses work fine:
system@csc.kth.se
it-support@kth.se
Both addresses access the same RT-queue.
IT-Support 2
Help Desks
ITA Help Desk-Kårhuset
Drottning Kristinas väg 19, ground floor.
Open weekdays 08:00 - 16:30, phone: 08 - 790 6600
CSC Service Center - Local IT-support
Mikael Prytz & Kent Karlsson
Lindstedtsvägen 3, plan 4, phone: 790 7146
Monday - Thursday 08:00 - 16:00, Friday 08:00 - 14:00
ITA Help Desk
ITA Help Desk
IT-Support 3
Purchase of IT Products
Handled by ITA
Use the same CSC procedures as before.
Follow the instructions and use the web form at CSC Intra:
http://www.sgr.csc.kth.se/services/inkop/index.php
IT-Support 3
Software & Licenses
KTH provides site licenses at
http://intra.kth.se/it/mjukvara/progbib
New CSC license are ordered using web form at CSC Intra
http://www.sgr.csc.kth.se/services/inkop/index.php
Questions about licenses and assistance in ordering
Björn Thuresson thure@csc.kth.se
Future IT- services at CSC
The groups in CSC BIT-organization have started
IT-Rådet
BIT
Johan Hoffman
Christian Smith
Tina Billing
forskning
GRU
admin
GRU IT-Rådet
Beställargruppen IT
Your closest contact
IT-rådet
Johan Karlander
Christian Smith
Tony Lindeberg
Björn Thuresson
Christian Bogdan
Giampiero Salvi
Sara Johansson
TCS
CVAP
CB
HPCViz
MID
TMH
Staben
GRU - ITR
Per Austrin
Björn Hedin
Beatrice Hallmark
Lasse Berglund
TCS, D-programmet
MID, Media-programmet
Media-student
D-student
Questions?
Address for dialogue about the changes
it-forum@kth.se
A subset of new projects
autumn 2014
2014-10-16
CVAP
Danica Kragic
Patric Jensfeldt
Yannis Karagiannidis
2014-10-16
socSMCs - „Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies“
FETPROACT-2-2014 (budget 3.7 MEUR, 48 months)
Our long term vision is to realize a new socially competent robot technology grounded in novel insights
into mechanisms of functional and dysfunctional social behavior, and to test novel aspects and strategies
for human-robot interaction and cooperation that can be applied in a multitude of assistive roles relying
on highly compact computational solutions.
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UKE Hamburg, Germany (Engel, Maye, Nolte)
UPF Barcelona, Spain (Verschure)
KTH Stockholm (Kragic)
UOS Osnabrück, Germany (König)
PAL Barcelona, Spain (Ferro)
LUH Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (Effenberg)
White Matter Labs, Germany (Stelzer)
UH The University of Hertfordshire, UK (Polani)
RobDREAM „Optimizing Robot Performance while Dreaming“
ICT-23-2014 (budget 5.4 MEUR, 36 months)
Sleep! For hominids and most other mammals sleep means more than regeneration. Sleep positively affects
working memory, which in turn improves higher-level cognitive functions such as decision making and reasoning.
This is the inspiration of RobDREAM! What if robots could also improve their capabilities in their inactive phases –
by processing experiences made during the working day and by exploring – or “dreaming” of – possible future
situations and how to solve them best?
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KUKA Labs, Germany (Braun)
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ALU Freiburg, Germany (Burgard)
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Convergent Information Technologies, Austria
(Eberst)
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KTH Stockholm (Kragic)
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DLR, Germany (Borst)
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U Bonn, Germany (Stachniss)
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TECNALIA, Spain (Agirre Ibarbia)
IPSYS „Interactive Physical Systems: Moduli Spaces,
Inference and Control“
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (budget 18.5 MSEK, 60 months)
The main novel aspect of this proposal is the introduction of moduli spaces for representing complex interaction
tasks considering an appropriate notion of equivalence. To this end, we claim that nobody has yet explored how
the integration of statistical and moduli space approaches can be used to model common spaces for perception
and action to achieve an efficient representation suitable for learning and control. In our approach, this relates to
encoding of robot motion for interaction with objects and learning of models for high-level task modeling and
planning.
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Danica Kragic
Dimos Dimarogonas
Florian Pokorny
Aaron Bobick
Robots performing tasks through teleoperation – a human is through own motion controlling a
remote robot that executes tasks in areas dangerous or not accessible by humans. A human
wears an exoskeleton (robotic body) that serves as a joystick to generate control for the remote
robot by direct own body movements.
Duration: 42months, Manmonths: 392 (total) / 50 (KTH) Budget: 4.12M€ (total) / 487k€ (KTH)
Smart Assembly Robots with
Advanced Functionalities SARAFun
SARAFun Assembly Robotics: robots assisting humans in industrial settings.
Robots are equipped with arms/hands and the ability to monitor humans in their
daily work. Robots can learn from humans by observing them and then execute
the tasks that are repetitive (boring) and/or dangerous for humans.
List of participants
• ABB AB [ABB] (Coordinator) Sweden
• CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND
TECHNOLOGY HELLAS [CERTH]
Greece
• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOGSKOLAN
[KTH] Sweden
• LUNDS UNIVERSITET [ULUND]
Sweden
• UNIVERSITÄT BIELEFELD [UNIBI]
Germany
• FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH
& INNOVATION [TECNALIA] Spain
Introducing…
The CSC PhD student council 2014
Who are we?
President – Rebekah Cupitt, MID
Secretary – Francisco Viña, CVAP
Representatives:
Mediated Communication
Malin Picha Edwardsson, MID
Filip Kiš, MID
1 vacant position Speech, Music & Hearing
Computer Science:
Pedro de Carvalho Gomes, TCS
Francisco Viña, CVAP
Michael Schliephake, HPCViz
2 vacant positions – Computational Biology and Speech,
Music & Hearing
Connections with other organisations at
CSC
PhD program council representatives yearly for Computer
Science and Mediated Communication Doctoral programs.
2 PhD student representatives for the Academic Appointment
Board at CSC.
1 representative on CSC’s workplace council
Connections with KTH
THS:
This year the PhD council and THS have more actively
collaborated and exhanged information about the different
forum where PhD student representatives are active.
Other schools at KTH:
ABE, CHE, EE & hopefully SCI & ITM school
What do we do?
Work on informing the PhD student body on changes and
developments at CSC that effect PhD students.
Raise important issues that concern PhD studies at the CSC
management level, the workplace council and at the Student
Union level.
Make sure PhD students at CSC receive the best doctoral
education possible.
Ask us for help
We are here to make sure you get the best PhD education
possible!
Check out the (really old) website:
http://www.csc.kth.se/student/doktorandrad
…email us:
dr-ordf@csc.kth.se
…or contact the representative at your department
Verksamhetens
utfall
Some snapshots from the rector contract
negotiations (Sorry but slides in Swedish)
GRU - Utfall och prognos 2014
Nybörjare ht 2014:
Datateknik: 2.9 förstasök/ pl (2:a av civ.ing.prg)
Medieteknik: 2.4 förstasök/ pl (+8%)
16% kvinnor (+45%)
30% kvinnor
HPR och HST:
2013: 1173 (1160) på program;
2014: 1236 (1141)
1044 (1004) som producent
1103 (1031)
Examina civilingenjör:
2013: 113 (rekord)
2014: 110 -120 (70 hittills)
DATE-studenter tar examen!
Betalande studenter: 16 st nya HST, 20 HST totalt
UKÄ Uppföljningsrapporter inlämnade
Datateknik: Positiva förändringar trots ifrågasatt urval
Master IKT: Arbetet ger till samsyn CSC-ICT-EES-STH
Forskarutbildning
CSC Doktorsprogram:
Datalogi
Medierad kommunikation
Fokus på kvalitetsarbetet 2014:
Kvalitetskriterier och kvalitetsprocesser har diskuteras och lagts fast
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Uppflyttningspolicy
Kvalitet i avhandlingen
Programbeskrivningar och ämnesstudieplaner
Andra åtgärder
• JML-seminarier för handledare
• Öka rekryteringen av doktorander
• Engagemang i doktorsprogrammet Konst, teknik och design
• Erasmus Mundus-doktorsprogrammet EuroSPIN
Forskning
TCS Teoretisk datalogi
- 2 nya bitr. lektorer, 1 postdoc, och 6 doktorander.
- Nya industrisamarbeten:
- Scania/ Vinnova
- Vinnova: Konsortium plattformssäkerhet
- Ericsson - Scania - SAAB: Mjukvarukonstruktion, strategiskt samarbete med KTH
CVAP/CAS Datorseende och robotik
- 4 doktorander och 3 postdoktorer har anställts sedan början på året.
- 4 projektet i Horizon 2020 har säkrats
- Stort KAW-anslag beviljat
CB Beräkningsbiologi
- 2 nya bitr. lektor i neuroinformatik.
- Inom Human Brain Project: HPC-stödd hjärnsimulering och neuroinspirerad
hårdvarudesign (KTH Brain IT Network, Stockholm Brain Institute, SFO StratNeuro)
Forskning
HPCViz Högpresterande beräkningar och visualisering
- Professor i Visualisering anställd, Tino Weinkauf.
- Bitr. lektor i Högpresterande vetenskapliga beräkningar anställd.
- Undervisningen i visualisering har expanderat. Framgångar i nationella
studenttävlingen i visualisering C Awards 2014.
MID Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign
- Ny lektor i Medieteknik (nyligen beford. prof), medförde 1 forskare, 1 doktorand,1 postdoc.
- Medieteknik-programmet utvecklas mot mer teknikfokus (programmering, signalbehandling)
TMH Tal, musik och hörsel
- Kärnområdet multimodala dialogsystem + sociala robotar har gett nya industrikontakter
(Disney Research, Google), avknoppningsbolag och EU-projekt.
- Avancerad modellering/ simulering av röstfunktion. Forskargrupp har bildats – Voice Lab
- Affilierad fakultet inom Hörselteknik
Prognos ekonomiskt utfall 2014
Utfall jan-aug är helt i linje med total årsbudget.
Årets prognosticerade resultat fördelar sig på utbildning 0 M och forskning 5 M.
Prel. prognos GRU-fördelning 2015
Total ersättning (tkr) till skolorna 2015 för utbildning på grundnivå och avancerad nivå
för anslags- och betalande studerande (inkl. stipendiater)
Ersättning för utbildning på grund- och
avancerad nivå 2015
Basmedel
varav programskolmedel (inkl. betalande)
varav andel producentskolemedel
varav särskilt täckningsbidrag
Riktade medel
varav utvecklingsmedel m. m.
varav avskrivningar
Övriga riktade medel
Labbmedel
Förberedande kurser
Off-campusersättningar mm
Prestationsmedel
varav kursprestationer (lå 13/14)(inkl.
betalande)
Beräknad ersättning för utbildning på
grundnivå och avancerad nivå (inkl.
betalande)
Skolans totala GRU-tilldelning 2014
ABE
BIO
112 807
37 641
50 255
24 911
3 392
3 000
9 387
4 399
3 335
1 653
1 338
1 100
30 614
10 481
13 461
6 673
5 703
500
238
400
4 418
385
392
101 957
101 957
218 156
228 838
CHE
6 405
6 405
17 130
19 199
25 457
25 457
61 773
65 387
sid 2
CSC
ECE
EES
ICT
49 741
18 627
20 802
10 312
5 814
1 000
7 952
2 559
3 606
1 787
3 000
2 000
24 047
9 665
9 616
4 767
900
500
37 274
13 742
15 733
7 799
2 600
1 000
500 1 000
2 802
1 512
400 1 600
38 790 5 928 19 596 29 617
38 790 5 928 19 596 29 617
94 344
ITM
119 649
50 300
46 365
22 983
4 344
1 500
450
900
SCI
STH
98 123 40 106
23 880 14 428
49 638 17 168
24 605
8 510
8 431 4 863
3 000
1 000
120
1 200
4 231
1 494
3 743
95 518 96 831 29 955
95 518 96 831 29 955
16 880 44 543 69 490 219 511 203 385 74 923
88 759 23 046 44 108 91 791
224 784 197 092
78 833
Summa
529 699
185 722
229 978
114 000
40 384
14 600
570
6 000
7 458
6 519
5 237
450 052
450 052
1 020 136
1 061 837
Strategisk plan
för
fakultetsutveckling
CSC har ungefär normal KTH-fördelning
mellan undervisning och forskning
Vissa avdelningar är forskningsintensiva
Budgeterad
bemanning
heltids
ekvivalenter
Avdelningarnas storlek och sammansättning
antal
personer
(inkl. ind.dokt.& stip.)
juni 2014
Rekrytering 2013 - 2014
Totalt 20 tjänster tillsatta 2013 – 2014 varav 3 befordrade. Endast män.
- Professorer
1 utlyst
2 befordrade
- Lektorer
7 utlysta (varav 4 tidigare CSC forskare/ fo.ass)
1 befordrad
- Bitr. lektorer
10 utlysta (varav 7 tidigare CSC forskare/ postdoc)
Ytterligare 2 bitr. lektor/ lektor är under tillsättning och 4 planerade.
=> CSC har en ungdomlig fakultet med endast 8% över 60 år (KTH 22%)
Fakultetens utveckling 2014 - 2022
antal
tjänster
- Fakultetens totala ökning 21 tjänster (28% ökning)
- Professorerna är den vanligaste tjänsten 2022 (44% av fakulteten) = tenure track fungerar
- Lektorer 33%, bitr. lektorer 18%
- Forskande personal (forskare, postdocs) lika många som lektorerna.
- För varje två-årsperiod nyrekryteras eller befordras 10 - 20% av fakulteten.
Resurser
Totala
resurser för
fakulteten
(aggregerade från
avdelningsnivå)
- Sammanlagda tillgängliga resurser 2014: 263 Mkr
(inkl. finansiering av CSCs OH; 108% på lönekostnader GRU och 64% FoFu).
- Resurser i medel per fakultetstjänst 2014: 3.5 Mkr/ tjänst
Variation 45% mellan avdelningarna, från 3.0 till 4.4 Mkr/ tjänst.
Förhandsbesked om beviljade EU-projekt i okt 2014 (Horizon 2020) inte medtagna.
Exkl. dessa är prognosen 3% ökning av tillgängliga resurser till 2016.