Image of scientist

Niklas Wahlström

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

Niklas Wahlström is an Assistant professor at the Division of Systems and Control, Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University. Dr Wahlström joined WASP in 2019.

What is your position/role in WASP?

Main supervisor for one industrial PhD student and co-supervisor for one academic PhD student, both within WASP Graduate School.

Why did you choose to join WASP?

To get access to an excellent network of researchers and for the great funding possibilities.

What are the benefits you see in WASP?

WASP brings together researchers and collaborators from both academia and industry in a unique network. It provides great initiatives, such as the graduate school.

Briefly describe your research topic.

Physics-informed machine learning, i.e., how to leverage data-driven machine learning models using domain knowledge.

In what way can your research be of importance to our society in the future?

Machine learning models are used in many different applications, for example, indoor localization using magnetic fields, target tracking using magnetic sensors, and automatic control based on raw pixel data, to mention a few where I have been involved. By leveraging these models with domain knowledge, even better performance can be achieved in these applications.

By making machine learning models more physics-informed, they will also become more interpretable. This interpretability can transform these machine learning models from being black-box models into full-fledged scientific tools enabling new knowledge discoveries in the scientific domains in which they are employed.

More information

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. View more
Cookies settings
Accept
Privacy & Cookie policy
Privacy & Cookies policy
Cookie name Active
The WASP website wasp-sweden.org uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on a visitor’s computer and can be used to follow the visitor’s actions on the website. There are two types of cookie:
  • permanent cookies, which remain on a visitor’s computer for a certain, pre-determined duration,
  • session cookies, which are stored temporarily in the computer memory during the period under which a visitor views the website. Session cookies disappear when the visitor closes the web browser.
Permanent cookies are used to store any personal settings that are used. If you do not want cookies to be used, you can switch them off in the security settings of the web browser. It is also possible to set the security of the web browser such that the computer asks you each time a website wants to store a cookie on your computer. The web browser can also delete previously stored cookies: the help function for the web browser contains more information about this. The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority is the supervisory authority in this field. It provides further information about cookies on its website, www.pts.se.
Save settings
Cookies settings