Bio for Prof. Dr. Carl Gustaf Jansson

Professor Emeritus, Artificial Intelligence at
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Head of AI Strategy at Attabotics Inc.

Education.

1974
MSc in Engineering Physics at KTH 

1986
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, KTH

Positions.

1988-1992
Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence at KTH  

1992-2018
Tenured Professor in Artificial Intelligence at KTH

Research interests.

Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge representation, 
Machine Learning, Multi paradigm programming,
Cognitive Science, Intelligent Interfaces, On-line learning

Management roles.

1978-2004
Deputy Head of Department, Dept. for DSV, KTH 

1988-2004
Member of the KTH Faculty Council (Senate) 

2005-2014
Vice Dean for the KTH ICT School 

2005-2014
Chairman for the KTH ICT School Graduate Study  

2005-2014
Chairman for the KTH joint ICT and CSC School Recruitment Committee  

2017-2018
Head of Department, Dept. for Communication Systems, KTH

2015-present 
Senior academic advisor for the KTH Internationalization in  India and Latin America.

Pedagogic
achievements
.

1975-1985
KTH curricula developments Programming Methodology 

1985-2000
KTH curricula developments Artificial Intelligence 

1985 
Design of KTH five year MSc Program : Computer Engineering 

1988-2005  
Supervised and examined 35 PhD students in Artificial Intelligence specifically in Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Automated Reasoning as well as Intelligent Interfaces. 10 PhDs have eventually become tenured Professors.  

1999-2005  
Design and Chair of the KTH five year MSc Program in Information Technology (1999)  

2010-2016  
Designer of and Director for the EIT Digital Pan European Master School 

2019-present  
Development of an IIT Madras NPTEL on-line course in Machine Learning

Scientific
achievements.

Responsible for numerous externally funded projects 1976 and onwards: PRINCESS, CLEA, ACTA, Acquisition and Learning, Inductive Learning of Logic Programs, ILP, ILP2, PUSH, AUGMENT,  SSF HMI and C&C, Agent based methods, PLAYGROUND, WEBLABS, FEEL,  ISPACE, MIELES and EQUAMBI.

1990-1995
Cofounder and Director for the center for Cognitive Engineering (KTH, Stockholm U.)  

1994-2004 
Founder and Director of the Knowledge and Communication Research Laboratory 

1990-2000
Chairman of the Swedish AI Society (SAIS) and  Honorary President of SAIS  (2000-present).  

1996-1999 
Member of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) board  

1999
Local Organization chair for the International Joint Conference in AI (IJCAI99)  

1995-1998 
Senior researcher in the European Science Foundation (ESF) program : Learning in Humans and Machines 

1996-2002      
Board member for the SSF HMI and C&C National Swedish Graduate Schools  

2009-2018 Director for the KTH ICT Research Platform  

2008-2012 Area coordinator for the KTH Research Assessment Exercises (RAE 2008, RAE 2012) 

2009-2010  Node Director for the EIT Digital Stockholm Node ( The European Institute of Innovation and Technology) 

2016-2017   
Senior Academic Advisor to EIT Digital.