Kalle Åström, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University

Kalle is a professor at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Lund University. His research spans from basic research in algebraic geometry to applied mathematical research (machine learning, image analysis, computer vision and mathematical modelling) and to dissemination in industry and society as a whole. His master's thesis on autonomous vehicles was awarded first prize in Innovation Cup, 1991. The dissertation from 1996, won prize as best Nordic dissertation in machine learning and image analysis. He is the founder of four companies, Neuromathic, Spiideo, Cognimatics and Decuma, where Decuma won the EU's "IST grand prize" in 2005. He has been co-editor for IEEE transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and was the track chair for International Conference on Pattern Recognition in 2014. He has written about 170 reviewed scientific articles in scientific journals and conferences and has been main or co-supervisor for 23 PhD students. Currently he is coordinating the network for Artificial Intelligence at Lund University, http://ai.lu.se.