Short Facts

Short Facts

• Short Facts

• 275 employees 120 faculty, including 30 full professors of which several have industrial background and connections to the industry

• 110 PhD students

• 24 administrator and 11 system administrators

• 162 PhD and 122 Licentiate degrees 1999-2013

• Turnover 2013: 230 MSEK, (1/3 teaching, 2/3 research)

The IT Department is

• The IT Department is

• The fourth largest department at Uppsala University

• The most complete department:

• in Uppsala (balance between education and research)
• in Sweden (unice coverage of IT)

Undergraduate Education

• Undergraduate Education

• 4000 students each year (about 1000 full time students)

• Participation in about 30 study programs, a total of 150 courses starts per academic year.

• Single subject courses, distance courses, summer courses and web based courses.

• Everything from introductory courses for beginners to specialist courses.

• 200 computer work stations for the students.

• The Department received “The Undergraduate Education Department of the Year” Award 2009 by the Student Union.

• Six teachers at the department have received the ”Pedagogical Award” (Pedagogiska priset) given by Uppsala University.

Research

• Research

• Computer Systems

• Computing Science

• Scientific Computing

• Systems and Control

• Visual Information and Interaction

• Computing Education Research

The IT Department hosts:

• The IT Department hosts:

• Research Centres

• UPMARC (Uppsala Programming for Multicore Architectures) 2008-2018, a Linnaeus center funded by the Swedish Research Council. Total budget: 100 million SEK.
• WISENET (Uppsala Center for Wireless Sensor Networks) 2007-2016. A center of Excellence funded by Vinnova. Total budget: 210 million SEK.
• eSSENCE – a national collaboration in e-science. 26 MSEK/year.

• SNIC (Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing), is under the Swedish Science Council a metacentre whose task is to coordinate and develop high end computing capacity for Swedish research.

• UPPMAX (Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science), which is Uppsala University's center for high performance computing.

Citations from external evaluations (KoF07 & KoF11)

• Citations from external evaluations (KoF07 & KoF11)

• The friendly atmosphere and the cohesiveness that prevails at the Information Technology Department have been mentioned by several members. The panel believes that such friendly atmosphere is indeed a valuable and rather unique asset that undoubtedly contributes to the quality of the work performed at the department.

• ... world-class quality ... world leading ... internationally recognized

Impact

• Impact

• Our graduated students and PhDs are much appreciated in industry and academia.

• Several high tech spin-offs: Skype, Acumem, Trade Extensions, OptiMobile, Wisenet Holding

• Collaboration with several major Swedish companies: Ericsson, ABB, Scania, Volvo…

• Future systems for train traffic control in Sweden is based on HCI research.

• Extensive academic collaboration nationally and internationally.