Curriculum Vitae - Niklas Lavesson

Born December 31, 1976 in Uppsala, Sweden

Degrees

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, Dec 2008.
Lic.Sc. in Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, Apr 2006.
M.Sc. in Software Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, Jun 2003.

Academic Positions

Associate professor (Universitetslektor / Docent) of computer science, since May 2011.
Assistant professor (Universitetslektor) of computer science, Jan 2009 - Apr 2011.
Ph.D. student in computer science, Dec 2004 - Dec 2008.
Project assistant, Jun 2004 - Nov 2004.
Project assistant, Jun 2003 - Dec 2003.
Teaching assistant, Jun 2001 - Jun 2003.

All at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Publications

I have published a total of 40 monographs, peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. A list of my publications is available here.

Grants and projects

Funding obtained as main applicant

Applications for Data-driven Multimorbidity Identification and Risk Estimation (ADMIRE)
Pilot study, November 2010 - May 2011, Blekinge Competence Center, 240 000 SEK
(with Johan Berglund and Claes Jogréus)
Prediction of the Risk of Hospitalization of the Elderly,
2009-2010, Blekinge County Council, 250 000 SEK
(with Paul Davidsson and Johan Berglund)
Classifying the Severity of Acute Coronary Syndrome by Mining Patient Data,
2008, Blekinge County Council, 100 000 SEK
(with Paul Davidsson)

Funding obtained as co-applicant

Computer-aided Support for Knowledge Improvement Concerning Serial Burglaries,
2012-2015, ERDF, 5.6 MSEK
(with Martin Boldt (BTH), Mikael Nilsson (LU), The Swedish Police)
The Internet of Things,
2011-2012, Vinnova, 750 000 SEK
BTH PI: Prof. Lars Bengtsson
PrimCare IT,
2012-2014, EU, 25 MSEK (BTH: 2.8 MSEK)
BTH PI: Prof. Tobias C. Larsson
Improved Planning of Surgery through Identification of Surgery Indicators,
2011-2012, Blekinge County Council, 380 000 SEK
(with Marie Persson and Marteinn Magnusson)
Prototype Development of an Anomaly-based Detector for Surveillance,
2010-2012, KK Foundation, 3.34 MSEK
(with Stefan Axelsson and Henric Johnson., partners: Consoden, EC-gruppen)
Modeling of Surgery Indicators by Mining Hospital Data,
2009, Blekinge County Council, 100 000 SEK
(with Marie Persson, Marteinn Magnusson, and Johan Berglund)
Classifying the Severity of Acute Coronary Syndrome by Mining Patient Data - part II,
2009, Blekinge County Council, 450 000 SEK
The Use of ACG Case-Mix for Studying the Pharmaceutical Care of the Elderly,
2009-2010, Blekinge County Council, 300 000 SEK

Additional project participation (already funded)

Urban Insikt,
2011-2012, Vinnova, 750 000 SEK (BTH: 130 000 SEK)
ARENA 2.0 - Image-based Recognition of Vehicle Type and Registration Plate
Project leader, Nov 2010 - Mar 2011
ARENA 2.0 - Efficient Route-Models
Project initiator, Nov 2010 - Mar 2011
Visualization of Anomalies in the Maritime Domain
Blekinge Research Foundation

Supervision

Ph.D. supervision

I am the advisor of the following Ph.D. students:

Frederik Janssen, TU Darmstadt, since October 2011,
My role: Assistant advisor.
Main advisor: Prof. Johannes Fürnkranz
Rawand Hassan, BTH / EC Group AB, since August 2011,
My role: Assistant advisor.
Main advisor: Prof. Bengt Carlsson
Raja Khurram Shahzad, BTH, since September 2009,
Role: Primary advisor.
Main advisor: Prof. Bengt Carlsson
Anton Borg, BTH, since June 2009,
Role: Assistant advisor.
Main advisor: Prof. Bengt Carlsson

The term assistant advisor denotes an individual who complements the main supervisor. The term primary advisor denotes an individual who, in practice, has the main responsibility for the progress of the thesis. The main advisor denotes an individual who has the formal responsibility for the progress of the thesis.

M.Sc. supervision

I am currently supervising the following M.Sc. projects (the project titles may change):

Sina Tamanna, "Classifier-Independent Data Discretization Evaluation" - co-supervised with Andrew Moss
Pouya Sinaian, "Concept Description Size in Random Forests" - co-supervised with Andrew Moss
Nooshin HajiGhasemi, "Image-based Bird Recognition using Deep Learning"
Sarmad Rohani, "Rural Primary Care Improvement using Online Social Networks" - co-supervised with Marie Persson
Shahrooz Abghari and Samira Kazemi, "Information Fusion for Maritime Anomaly Detection using Multiple Sources" - co-supervised with Henric Johnson

I have supervised the following successfully defended M.Sc. theses:

Shaliz Rezaee, "E-mail Prioritization through Social Network Analysis," (2012)
Victor Castano, "A Framework for an Intelligent and Adaptive Planning of Rehabilitation Therapies" (2011) - co-supervised with Dr. Ricardo Imbert at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Winner of Telecom City Best Swedish Master's Thesis Prize 2011
Last updated occupation: Project Engineer, Institute for Biomedical Research, Hospital Clinico San Carlos.
Hiva Allahyari, "On the Concept of Understandability As a Property of Data Mining Quality" (2010)
Last updated occupation: Ph.D. student, Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Waqar Ahmad and Asim Riaz, "Predicting Friendship Levels in Online Social Networks" (2010) - co-supervised with Dr. Henric Johnson

Daniel Slat and Mikael Hellborg Lapajne, "Random Forests for CUDA GPUs" (2010)
- co-supervised with Prof. Håkan Grahn
Philip Baback Alipour and Muhammad Ali, "An Introduction and Evaluation of a Lossless Fuzzy Binary AND/OR Compressor" (2010)
Last updated occupation: Ph.D. student, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Cong Hoan Vu and Adeyinka Soneye, "An Analysis of Collaborative Attacks on Mobile Ad hoc Networks" (2009)
Raja M. Khurram Shahzad and Syed Imran Haider, "Detection of Spyware by Mining Executable Files" (2009)
Last updated occupation (Shahzad): Ph.D. student, Blekinge Institute of Technology.
Last updated occupation (Haider): Cap Gemini, Sweden
Muhammad Usman Rashid and Garapati Balakrishna, "Prevention of Spyware by Runtime Classification of End User License Agreements" (2009)
Fahad Khalid, "Measure-based Learning Algorithms: An Analysis of Back-propagated Neural Networks" (2008)
Last updated occupation: Ph. D. student, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany.
Dariusz Matyja, "Applications of Data Mining Algorithms to Analysis of Medical Data" (2007)
Kamila Aftarczuk, "Evaluation of Selected Data Mining Algorithms Implemented in Medical Decision Support Systems" (2007)
Michal Marcinczuk, "Pattern Acquisition Methods for Information Extraction Systems" (2007)
Last updated occupation: Ph.D. student, Wroclaw University of Technology
Muhammad Tariq Mahmood. "Face Detection by Image Discriminating" (2006), co-supervised with Prof. Rune Gustavsson
Last updated occupation: Ph.D. student, Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Other supervision

I have been the supervisor of more than 50 advanced topic projects in Computer Science and Software Engineering. I have acted as customer in a number of individual-based an group-based software engineering development projects held within the scope of courses at BTH.

Pedagogical Education

Ph.D. Supervision Course - FLUS: Forskarhandledarutveckling SydOst (2010)
Higher Education Pedagogy - Project Course, 7.5 ECTS (2009)
The results from the project has been reported in a journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Education)
Higher Education Pedagogy - Introductory Course, 7.5 ECTS (2008)
Pedagogy, 30 ECTS (2004)

Pedagogical Experience

Ph. D. courses

Machine Learning, 7.5 ECTS (start: fall 2011, run: yearly)
Involvement: Development, Management, Teaching, Examination

Basic and Advanced courses

I have developed, administrated, examined, lectured, held seminars or supervised at the following courses at Blekinge Institute of Technology:

Research Methodology, SE, 7.5 ECTS, 2011
Small Group Project in Security, SE, 15 ECTS, 2011
Object-oriented Design, CS, BAS, 4 ECTS, 2011
Master Thesis in Computer Science*, CS, ADV, 30 ECTS, 2010-2011
Machine Learning*, CS, ADV, 7.5 ECTS, 2007-2010, 2011-
Adaptive and Learning Systems*, CS, ADV, 7.5 ECTS, 2004-2007
Advanced Topic in Computer Science, CS, ADV, 7.5 ECTS, 2006-2007
Advanced Topic in Software Engineering*, SE, ADV, 7.5 ECTS, 2006-2009
Intelligent Decision Support Systems, CS, ADV, 7.5 ECTS, 2005, 2010
Agent Systems, CS, ADV, 7.5 ECTS, 2005
Thinking Computers: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence*, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2005
Java Applications, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2005
Programming, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2005
Object-oriented Programming, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2005
Data Structures and Algorithms, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2005
Interactive Web Design with Java Script, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2005
Programming in C-Sharp, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2003
Programming in C/C++, CS, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2002
Individual Software Engineering Project, SE, BAS, 7.5 ECTS, 2002, 2011

* = Course manager
CS = Computer Science
SE = Software Engineering
ADV = Advanced level
BAS = Basic level

Additional Pedagogical Experience

I have arranged courses and given lectures at Primary and Secondary education schools:

An Introduction to Open Source and Linux, for Teachers at Österängskolan, Kristianstad, Sweden, 2007
Summer Workshop on Java Script and Web Design, for Children aged 10-15, Education Administration (BUF), Kristianstad, Sweden, 2003-2004

Administration

Educational Administration

Member of the Plagiarism Policy Project at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Member of Learning Community for Sustainability at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Member of a project group, managed by Professor Lars Lundberg, at Blekinge Institute of Technology with the aim of improving the quality of both the end product and the process behind the Master's theses in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, and Informatics, 2010-2011
Initiator for, and member of, a project group responsible for investigating the need for and requirements of a doctoral student web portal at Blekinge Institute of Technology and the standardization of generic research education course development. The members were appointed by the faculty board, 2008-2009
Member of a project group responsible for revising and implementing the quality system for all levels of education at Blekinge Institute of Technology. The members were appointed by the Faculty board, 2008
Member of a project group responsible for co-arranging the Researchers' Friday with Kreativum in Karlshamn, Sweden, 2008-2009
Member of the Online Education Interest Group at the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2004-2007
Student Group Manager for the Security Engineering Program at Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2006

Administrative Merits

BTH Coordinator of the Ph.D. Supervision Course - FLUS: Forskarhandledarutveckling SydOst
Local chair (w/ Peter Linde), 17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 2013
Area chair, 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 2012
Member of the board of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS), since spring 2011
Examiner and Manager of the course: Master's Thesis in Computer Science, 2010-2011
Project manager of Researcher's Friday; a collaboration between Blekinge institute of technology and Kreativum in Karlshamn, Sweden, since fall 2009
Coordinator of Ph.D. studies at Blekinge Institute of Technology, appointed by the Faculty board, since 2009
Member of the Advisory Committee of the board of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS), 2009-2011
Program Manager for Security Engineering (180 ECTS) at Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2008 - 2010
Chairman of the Doctoral Student council at Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2007 - 2008
Member of the Appointments board at Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2007-2008
Member of the Faculty board at Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2007-2008
Member of the Doctoral Student council at Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2006-2007

Review and evaluation tasks

Doctoral Defense Grading Committee participation

Since June 2011, I have served in the following committees or acted as deputy:

The doctoral defense grading committee for Mrs. Mahvish Khurum,
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Oct 27, 2011.
Role/involvement: deputy member

Program Committee participation (work and reviews)

Since 2009, I have been an official reviewer for and/or a member of the program committee for the following conferences:

ECAI-12 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems, Montpellier, France, 2012
16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2012
26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, USA, 2011
11th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Trondheim, Norway, 2011
5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, USA, 2010
21st Annual International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2010
9th AAMAS: First International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems, Toronto, Canada, 2010
4th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing, Tangier, Morocco, 2010
26th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010
13th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2009.

Journal Article Reviewing (Invited reviews)

Since 2009, I have reviewed one or more manuscripts for the following journals (asterisk denotes regular/frequent review tasks):

Advances in Artificial Neural Systems, Hindawi
Advances in Software Engineering, Hindawi
Computational Science and Engineering, Inderscience
Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier
Information Sciences (*), Elsevier
Information and Software Technology, Elsevier
Knowledge and Information Systems (*), Springer
Machine Learning, Springer
Neurocomputing, Elsevier

Other

Membership in International Societies

Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), since May 2006

International Cooperation (examples)

Joint project on enhancing privacy and security in online social networks (application to be submitted), together with: Dr. Henric Johnson at BTH, Dr. Irena Koprinska at University of Sydney, and Prof. Felix S. Wu at University of California at Davis.

In September 2010, I was the host of Associate Professor Veselka Boeva, visiting from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Ongoing joint research studies and publications.

In May 2007, I was the host of Associate Professor Veselka Boeva and Associate Professor Galidia Petrova, visiting from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Invited Talks, Guest Lectures, and Presentations

Poster presentations at the Blekinge County council Research Day, Karlskrona, Sweden, 2008 and 2009
Joint presentation with Martin Boldt about EULA-based spyware detection at the 9th Seminar of the Swedish IT Security Network (SWITS), Karlskrona, Sweden, 2009
Guest lecture on Data Mining at Blekinge Competence Center, Karlskrona, Sweden, 2009
Poster presentation at the AAAI07 Second Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2007

Non-academic merits / interests

Substitute of the board of Kalvhagens Box Center, 2010-2011
Member of the board of Kalvhagens Box Center, 2009-2010
Radar observer (appointed to Chief observer), Swedish Airforce, 1997-1998

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