Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science (DIDA) is one of three departments at the Faculty of Computing. We are BTH's largest department with just over 70 employees.
Within DIDA we are divided into four groups:
- AIDA - Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics lab (Martin Boldt)
- SDS - Secure and Distributed Systems (Bo Peterson)
- COSY - Computing and systems (Anton Borg)
- GAME - Games and Interactive Systems (Yan Hu)
The Department of Computer Science is located in buildings H and J on Campus Karlskrona.
All research conducted within the department is applied, which is in line with BTH's strategy. Research is conducted in the following areas at DIDA:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Decision support systems and automation
- Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems
- Data Science
- Computer Graphics and Visualisation
- Digital game development
- Cryptography and computer security
- Methods and techniques for human-computer systems
- Performance optimisation and parallel computing systems
Research activities
The department conducts research in the field of computer science. It includes the sub-areas big data and AI, parallel computing, visual and interactive data science, and security and distributed systems.
If you want to see what research projects are available in the field of data science, please visit our research portal. Search for research area "Computer Science".
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Welcome new students
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BTH Strengthens Strategic Partnerships in Ghana
A delegation from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) recently visited two key academic partners in Ghana—Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Cape Coast—to advance and operationalize collaboration agreements signed in 2025. -
BTH research is behind an award-winning European cybersecurity project
The European cybersecurity project CISSAN, in which researchers from BTH are participating, has received the highest rating in an international final review. The project is developing new methods to protect critical infrastructure against cyberattacks.
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