Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research (CAISR)

The Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research (CAISR), is a long-term research investment in applied artificial intelligence and machine learning at Halmstad University. The research is carried out in collaboration with Swedish industry and is funded by the Knowledge Foundation and Vinnova. CAISR’s research focus is “aware” intelligent systems.

The scientific focus for the Center for Applied Intelligent System Research (CAISR) is “aware” intelligent systems – human aware, situation aware and self-aware. Such systems can combine different sources of information to get an overall picture and monitor themselves. The subject expertise in the center is in signal analysis, machine learning and mechatronics. CAISR also has an emphasis on cooperating systems, in line with the research focus at the School of Information Technology (ITE).

Several industrial partners are collaborating with researchers from Halmstad University in joint projects, and also take an active part in the development of CAISR. The industrial partners include multinational companies as well as research-based growing companies. The key application areas for CAISR's research are information driven care and intelligent vehicles & predictive maintenance.

Application areas at CAISR:

Collaboration

CAISR is closely linked to the research profile CAISR Health, the innovation centre Leap for Life, the lab Halmstad Intelligent Home and Technology Area Aware Intelligent Systems:

CAISR Partners

Affecto Sweden
AI Sweden
Air Liquide
Alfa Laval
Berkeley University
Chicago University
CGI
Cubist
EasyServ Sweden
Essity
European DLB Consortium
FacePhi Biometria Ltd.
Getinge
Hallandia V
Halland municipalities (Falkenberg, Halmstad, Hylte, Kungsbacka and Varberg)
Harvard Medical School
HEM (Halmstad Energi och Miljö)
High Five
HMS Industrial Networks
HotSwap Norden
Karolinska Institute
Linköping University Hospital
Lund University
NEAT Electronics
Novartis
Novo Nordisk
Region Halland
Region Skåne
Region Stockholm
Region Västra Götaland
Region Örebro län
RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
Sahlgrenska at Gothenburg University
SKR (Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions)
Stena Recycling
Sydpumpen
Takeda
Tappa Service
Toyota Material Handling
Viscando
Volvo Technology / Volvo Group Trucks Technology
Volvo Bus Corporation
Volvo Group Connected Solutions
Volvo Trucks Corporation
Öresundskraft

With support from the Knowledge Foundation External link.

CAISR organisation & staff

CAISR Management

Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson (project manager for CAISR)
Magnus Clarin
Josef Bigun
Mattias Ohlsson
Mark Dougherty
Slawomir Nowaczyk
Stefan Byttner

CAISR Industrial Advisory Board

The CAISR partners have decided to create an Industrial advisory board (IAB), consisting of representatives from each industrial partner. This group will follow the project development with respect to the co-production and co-operation between the Parties. The Industrial Advisory Group will meet twice a year. The Industrial Advisory Group will express themselves on issues of potential new partners in the project, changes in financing and project development from business perspective.

CAISR Reference Group

The reference group consists mainly of representatives from national and international research institutions. The reference group gives advice and comment on the project development from the academic perspective, not least by the University’s perspective. They will also give their view on research, innovation and education perspectives. The reference group can also provide suggestions for concrete actions to improve the project.

CAISR Staff

Research projects and application areas

The mission of CAISR is to serve and promote the development of industry and society. It is a center for industrially motivated research on the future technologies for and application opportunities with aware intelligent systems. CAISR will serve as a partner for industry's own research and development, as a recruitment base for those who seek staff with state-of-the-art knowledge in intelligent systems technologies, and as a competence resource for industry and society. Read more about the research focus and application areas of CAISR:

Application Areas at CAISR: information driven care and intelligent vehicles & predictive maintenance

Links to articles about CAISR researchers and research projects can be found under ’Articles’ below. The research projects are also described on the page for research projects within ITE:

Research projects within ITE

Publications and news

Scientific articles published by CAISR researchers are collected under:

Publications CAISR

Articles about CAISR researchers:

Long-term commitment to collaboration awarded with the Prize for Collaboration and Innovation (about Magnus Clarin)
Professor’s portrait: Stefan Byttner wants more people to learn about AI (about Stefan Byttner)
Professorsporträtt: Cristofer Englund vill bidra till ett hållbart samhälle External link. (about Cristofer Englund)
Turning data into better healthcare (about Carl Savage)
Universities must get ready for new types of teaching (about Pontus Wärnestål)
Unique design perspective in Halmstad’s AI education (about Stefan Byttner)
Shaping AI education for practical use in society (about Verónica Gaspes)
“Universities must get ready for new types of teaching” (about Pontus Wärnestål)
Better care at a lower cost by using data (about Awais Ashfaq)
Monitoring district heating substations important to the future smart city (about Shiraz Farouq)
Human-machine collaboration improves the detection of anomaly (about Ece Calikus)
Smart Home Activity Recognition boosts quality of life (about Rebeen Ali Hamad)
Future AI needs to solve problems without labels (about Hadi Fanaee)
Professor’s Portrait: “Life would be boring without difficult problems” (about Slawomir Nowaczyk)
Enabling the full potential of Machine Learning (about Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia)
AI important for future personalised care (about Alexander Galozy)
Joint human-machine learning can improve district heating (about Ece Calikus)
Artificial intelligence could predict and prevent diseases (about Farzaneh Etminani)
Increased security with facial recognition (about Fernando Alonso-Fernandez)
Robots that understand, learn and imitate humans (about Eren Erdal Aksoy)
Slawomir wants to create an artificial, truly intelligent system (about Slawomir Nowaczyk)
Driven to contribute to something larger (about Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson)
From punch cards to artificial intelligence – from east to west (about Antanas Verikas)
An Engineer with a Passion for Health (about Anita Pinheiro Sant´Anna)
Anita’s company wants to forge the link between researchers and facts (about Anita Pinheiro Sant´Anna)
The researcher who wants to teach machines to see (about Josef Bigun)

Articles about CAISR research projects:

Annual reports

The key application areas for CAISR's research are healthcare technology and intelligent vehicles – something that is well in line with Halmstad University's two focus areas Health Innovation and Smart Cities and Communities. Read more in CAISR's annual reports: