Digital Futures Open Research Days on April 18-19, 2024

Welcome to Digital Futures Open Research Days, a rich program that covers research projects, partners, and panel discussions. The event is ONSITE at the Architecture School building, KTH main campus, Stockholm.

• Welcome, presentations, lightning talks, and panel discussions are at A108, floor 1.
• Registration, coffee, lunch, breakout sessions and mingling are located at the Digital Futures hub, floor 2.

MATCHMAKING!
On Thursday, 18 April, 17:10-18:00, we will have matchmaking sessions where faculty can give short pitches/presentations on research ideas (~3-5 minutes per pitch). If you are interested in pitching a research idea, please sign up on the following form by April 18, 14:00: https://www.kth.se/form/6613e2730e3340327fecd665

PROGRAM

08:30-09:00 Registration & Coffee

09:00-09:15  Welcome and Introduction at A108, floor 1, by Karl H Johansson, Director Digital Futures

09:15-10:05  AI for Environment

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Yifang Ban
  • EO-AI4Global Change (Yifang Ban) – 5 min
  • Autonomous drones and AI-assisted computer vision for near real-time mapping and management of wild stock (Mikhail Popov) – 3 min
  • An AI-based framework for harmonizing climate policies and projects with the SDGs (Francesca Larosa) – 3 min
  • DeepFlood: Enhancing large-scale Flood Detection and Mapping using PolSAR, Metaheuristic, and Deep Learning Algorithms (Liangchao Zou) – 3 min
  • DeepAqua: Revolutionizing the quantification of Swedish surface water changes with deep learning​ (Francisco Pena) – 3 min
  • Edge computing for urban traffic monitoring (Jörg Conradt) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)  – 30 min
  • Session 1 (15 min):
    • Station 1: An AI-based framework for harmonizing climate policies and projects with the SDGs (Francesca Larosa)
    • Station 2: Autonomous drones and AI-assisted computer vision for near real-time mapping and management of wild stock (Mikhail Popov)
    • Station 3: Edge computing for urban traffic monitoring (Jörg Conradt)
    • Station 4: EO-AI4Global Change – Unveiling 3D Insights from Satellite Multi-Modal Time Series – From Building Heights to Forest Biomass (Andrea Nascetti)
    • Station 5: EO-AI4Global Change – Near Real-Time Wildfire Progression Mapping with VIIRS Time-Series and Autoregressive SwinUNETR (Yu Zhao)
    • Station 6: EO-AI4Global Change – Urbanization Monitoring from Optical Satellite Image Time Series Using Multi-Task Deep Learning (Sebastian Hefner)
  • Session 2 (15 min):
    • Station 1: DeepFlood: Enhancing large-scale Flood Detection and Mapping using PolSAR, Metaheuristic, and Deep Learning Algorithms (Liangchao Zou)
    • Station 2: DeepAqua: Revolutionizing the quantification of Swedish surface water changes with deep learning​ (Ioannis Iakovidis)
    • Station 3: not in use
    • Station 4: EO-AI4Global Change – Weakly-Supervised Change Detection in Satellite Imagery (Heng Fang)
    • Station 5: EO-AI4Global Change – Wildfire spread prediction with machine learning (Sebastian Gerard)
    • Station 6: EO-AI4Global Change – Impact of urbanisation on species distribution of near-threatened birds with case study of Stockholm County (Xi-Lillan Pang)

10:05-10:30  COFFEE BREAK (Digital Futures hub, floor 2)

10:30 – 11:10  Social AI

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Hedvig Kjellström
  • Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS) (Hedvig Kjellström) – 5 min
  • Using Neuroimaging Data for Exploring Conversational Engagement in Human-Robot Interaction (André Tiago Abelho Pereira) – 3 min
  • Data-driven Improvement of Work-Flows at the Karolinska University Hospital (Jayanth Ragothama) – 3 min
  • Layering Trust in Intimate Digital Health Technologies (Airi Lampinen) – 3 min
  • Embedding AI in an innovative geospatial tool to support policy for clean cooking adoption in low- and middle-income countries (Camilo Ramirez Gomez) – 3 min
  • XR Horizons: Unravelling Multi-User Interaction, Multisensory Experiences, and Ethical Considerations in the Realm of Spatial Computing​ (Andrii Matviienko and Asreen Rostami) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • • Station 1: Using Neuroimaging Data for Exploring Conversational Engagement in Human-Robot Interaction (André Tiago Abelho Pereira)
    • Station 2: Data-driven Improvement of Work-Flows at the Karolinska University Hospital (Jayanth Ragothama)
    • Station 3: Layering Trust in Intimate Digital Health Technologies (Airi Lampinen)
    • Station 4: Embedding AI in an innovative geospatial tool to support policy for clean cooking adoption in low- and middle-income countries (Camilo Ramirez Gomez)
    • Station 5: XR Horizons: Unravelling Multi-User Interaction, Multisensory Experiences, and Ethical Considerations in the Realm of Spatial Computing​ (Andrii Matviienko and Asreen Rostami)

11:10 -12:00  Smart Mobility

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Iolanda Leite
  
  • Advanced Adaptive Intelligent Systems (AAIS) (Joakim Gustafsson) – 5 min
  • cAIMBER: Causal Artificial Intelligence for Human Mobility Behavior Analysis Using Trajectory Data (Alex Markham and Yuanyuan Wu) – 3 min
  • Sensoring Safety Perception in Järva (Jonatan Abraham) – 3 min
  • MicroVRide: Virtual Reality Micromobilty Simulator (Andrii Matviienko and Asreen Rostami) – 3 min
  • GPARSE: Guaranteeing Pro-Active and Reactive Safety in Intersections through resource management at the Edge (Matthias Becker) – 3 min
  • CAVeaT – Connected Automated Vehicles Trialling and Trustworthiness (Martin Törngren) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 30 min
  • Session 1 (15 min):
    • Station 1: Advanced Adaptive Intelligent Systems (AAIS) – Interactive Guessing Game Showcasing Neural TTS with Advanced Prosody Management (Joakim Gustafson)
    • Station 2: cAIMBER: Causal Artificial Intelligence for Human Mobility Behavior Analysis Using Trajectory Data (Alex Markham and Yuanyuan Wu)
    • Station 3: Sensoring Safety Perception in Järva (Jonatan Abraham)
    • Station 4: CAVeaT – Connected Automated Vehicles Trialling and Trustworthiness (Martin Törngren)
  • Session 2 (15 min):
    • Station 1: Advanced Adaptive Intelligent Systems (AAIS) – Situated Gesture Generation (Jonas Beskow)
    • Station 2: MicroVRide: Virtual Reality Micromobilty Simulator (Andrii Matviienko and Asreen Rostami)
    • Station 3: GPARSE: Guaranteeing Pro-Active and Reactive Safety in Intersections through Resource Management at the Edge (Matthias Becker)

12:00-13:10 LUNCH & Postdocs Poster Session I (Digital Futures hub, floor 2)

• Session chair:  Sandra Pauletto
• Jury: Joakim Gustavsson, Andrea Nascetti, Airi Lampinen
• The best poster (based on Scientific content, Visual style, and Presentation) will be announced at 17:00!
  1. Children and sustainability: Designing digital tools for collaborative survival (Karey Helms)
  2. Data-Driven Design for Climate Action (Haluk Akay)
  3. Design guidelines for recognisable digital social touch from soft robotic haptic technologies (Caroline Yan Zheng)
  4. Designing AI Technology for Interdependence with Sighted Guiding Companions (Beatrice Vincenzi)
  5. Designing Rules for Multi-Robot Systems (Anna Gautiier)
  6. Distributed Optimal Control Strategies for Networked Multiagent Systems​ (Panpan Zhou​)
  7. Environmental Monitoring with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles​ (Risk Aware Planning and Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) (Chelsea Rose Sidrane​)
  8. Patient empowerment and patient-reported outcomes through mHealth in NCDs in Uganda (Johnblack Kabukye)
  9. Personalized Companion Robot for Open-Domain Dialogue in Long-Term Elderly Care (Bahar Irfan)
  10. Rapid space-based Detection, Dimensions, and Drivers of forest fires within the context of forest-based climate solutions (3DFire)​ (Zeinab Shirvani​)
  11. Secure-by-Construction Controller Synthesis of Cyber-Physical Systems (Siyuan Liu)
  12. Sensory-based hierarchical control of intelligent multi-vehicle systems​ (Zhiqi Tang)
  13. SMART – Smart Predictive Maintenance for the Pharmaceutical Industry (Tianzhi Li)

13:10-13:40  Robots and People

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Bengt Ahlgren
  • Advancing real-time exoskeleton control for human-in-the-loop optimization (Elena Gutierrez Farewik and Georgios Andrikopoulos) – 3 min
  • Investigating Sidewalks’ Mobility and Improving it with Robots (ISMIR) (Xing Tong and Sulthan Suresh Fazeela) – 3 min
  • Scavenger: Real-time logic-based control for an autonomous scavenger robot (Patrick Hammer) – 3 min
  • Mid-sized Seated Haptic Interactions for Autonomous Vehicles (Anna Ståhl) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: Advancing real-time exoskeleton control for human-in-the-loop optimization (Elena Gutierrez Farewik and Georgios Andrikopoulos)
  • Station 2: Investigating Sidewalks’ Mobility and Improving it with Robots (ISMIR) (Xing Tong and Sulthan Suresh Fazeela)
  • Station 3: Scavenger: Real-time logic-based control for an autonomous scavenger robot (Patrick Hammer)
  • Station 4: Mid-sized Seated Haptic Interactions for Autonomous Vehicles (Anna Ståhl)

13:40-14:15  Digitalized Built Environment I

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: James Gross
  • Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS) (Sindri Magnússon) –  5 min
  • Towards Safe Smart Construction: Algorithms, Digital Twins and Infrastructures (James Gross) – 3 min
  • DIRAC: DynamIc uRban roAd traffiC noise simulation model using passive and publicly available data (Zhenliang Ma) – 3 min
  • GEOMETRIC  – Geobased multilayer environmental modelling of urban TraffIC (Siddharth Venkataraman) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: Towards Safe Smart Construction: Algorithms, Digital Twins and Infrastructures (Mani Hemanth and Zhihao Liu)
  • Station 2: DIRAC: DynamIc uRban roAd traffiC noise simulation model using passive and publicly available data (Jonas Jostmann and Sacha Baclet)
  • Station 3: GEOMETRIC – Geobased multilayer environmental modelling of urban TraffIC (Siddharth Venkataraman)
  • Station 4: DEMOCRITUS – Bilinear parameter estimation with application in water leakage localization (Victor Molnö)
  • Station 5: DEMOCRITUS – A Novel Channel Coding Scheme for Digital Multiple Access Computing (Xiaojing Yan)
  • Station 6: DEMOCRITUS – Energy-Efficient and Adaptive Gradient Sparsification for Federated Learning (Shubham Vaishnav)

14:15-14:45  Digitalized Built Environment II

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Gyözö Gidofalvi
  
  • iHorse+ Improving air pollution and health risk forecasts by emerging IoT sensors (Xiaoliang Ma) – 3 min
  • Improving resilience: Using insurance data to design better loss prevention: How does the city of Stockholm insure its properties? (Christian Thomann) – 3 min
  • EFFECT Chess Machines for Electrified Construction Sites (Gyözö Gidofalvi) – 3 min
  • DECORUM Optimized predictive maintenance for wastewater pump stations (Matthieu Barreau) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: iHorse+ Improving air pollution and health risk forecasts by emerging IoT sensors (Xiaoliang Ma)
  • Station 2: Improving resilience: Using insurance data to design better loss prevention: What does the data tell us about risk exposure? (Jiayu Zhang)
  • Station 3: EFFECT Chess Machines for Electrified Construction Sites (Gyözö Gidofalvi)
  • Station 4: DECORUM Optimized predictive maintenance for wastewater pump stations (Matthieu Barreau and Gunnar Berg (Xylem)

14:45-15:10 COFFEE BREAK (Digital Futures hub, floor 2)

15:10-15:40  Smart Society and Digitalized Industry

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Jelena Zdravkovic
  • Smart Society: Digitalisation and the public sphere AND sustainable conference (Daniel Koch) – 3 min
  • Industry 5.0 research towards a circular economy and community building (Varvara Vasdeki, Gabriela Coutinho) – 3 min
  • SimOPT Simulator-Embedded Nonlinear Programming for Optimized Process Design and Decision Support (Jan Kronqvist) – 3 min
  • SHIFT-DT: Sustainable, Holistic, Integrated Framework for Ship Design and Production Transformation through DigitalTwins​ (Abbas Dashtimanesh) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: Smart Society: Digitalisation and the public sphere AND sustainable conference (Daniel Koch)

15:40-16:15  Transforming Education

• Lightning talk at A108, floor 1. Session chair: Cormac McGrath
  • Educational Transformation: Transforming Higher Education Practice Through Generative-AI (Arnold Pears) – 3 min
  • Empowering Cultural Integration and Language Learning Through Conversational AI (Alireza Kamelabad) – 3 min
  • Semi-automated math tutoring (Olov Engwall) – 3 min
  • Digitalisation and Educational Transformation: Empowering Students and Teachers with Cognitive Disabilities (Masood Rangraz) – 3 min
  • Platform for Smart People: Understanding Inclusion Challenges to Design and Develop an Independent Living Platform in a Smart Society for and with People with Autism (Thomas Westin) – 3 min

• Breakout Sessions at Digital Futures hub, floor 2 (each breakout talk is 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A) – 15 min
  • Station 1: Educational Transformation: Transforming Higher Education Practice Through Generative AI (Arnold Pears and Teresa Cerratto-Pargman)
  • Station 2: Empowering Cultural Integration and Language Learning Through Conversational AI (Alireza Kamelabad)
  • Station 3:  Semi-automated math tutoring (Olov Engvall)
  • Station 4: Digitalisation and Educational Transformation: Empowering Students and Teachers with Cognitive Disabilities (Jan Gulliksen and Anne-Kathrin Peters)
  • Station 5: Platform for Smart People: Understanding Inclusion Challenges to Design and Develop an Independent Living Platform in a Smart Society for and with People with Autism (Thomas Westin)

16:15-17:00  Panel Discussion – Trustworthy AI in an Uncertain World, moderated by Karl H Johansson, Director Digital Futures – at A108, floor 1

• • Panellists:
    • Jonas Beskow, Digital Futures Fellow, Professor in Speech Communication
    • Emil Björnson, Digital Futures Fellow,  Professor in Wireless Communications
    • Henrik Boström, Digital Futures Fellow, Professor in Computer Science – Data Science Systems
    • Kristina Höök, Digital Futures Fellow, Professor in Interaction Design
    • Xiongfei Wang, Digital Futures Fellow, Professor in Power Electronics Systems

17:00-17:10  Announcing Best Posters at A108, floor 1

17:10-18:00  Match-Making, Networking & Mingle at Digital Futures hub, floor 2

End of Day