The basic funding for the Strategic Research Area is an enabler for achieving both stability and collaboration opportunities within the security area. Stability through the establishment of positions with a focus to develop the research towards security-domain applications, and collaboration through the formation of time limited projects, complementary to other research activities, focusing on new ideas, scientific excellence and co-operation.
LiU
LiU funded positions:
Dr. Ashkan Kalantari (ISY)
Dr. Ashkan Kalantari is with the Division of Communication Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY), Linköping University. His research focuses on optimization for wireless MIMO communication systems for optimal transceiver design and secure communication. He also pursues research on statistical signal processing for detection and estimation in security applications. Within Security Link (from 2017), he is heading research on the use of statistical signal processing to develop various techniques for detection and mitigation of spoofing and meaconing attacks in GNSS and communication systems. In this direction, optimal detectors and related performance metrics are developed. These mitigation techniques have applications both in civilian and military applications.
Associate Professor Mats Eriksson (IFM)
Mats Eriksson is Associate Professor in Applied Physics at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) at Linköping University. His research focuses on chemical sensors, in particular electrochemical sensors for drinking water monitoring but also different aspects of gas sensing and biosensor research. Mats has headed several projects related to drinking water monitoring. The Event project 2008-2010 was a collaboration between LiU, FOI, Saab, Linköping municipality and the drinking water supplier Tekniska Verken i Linköping. After that the sensors were further developed in a project on microsensor arrays. 2012-2017 Eriksson participated in the VINNOVA challenge driven innovation (UDI) project Sensation on online water monitoring with 23 partners from academia, institutes and industry. During 2015-2018 Eriksson is the project leader of a VINNOVA VINN verification project aiming at commercialization of a technology for drinking water monitoring based on the “electronic tongue”.
Adj. Assoc. Prof. Gustaf Hendeby (ISY)
Gustaf Hendeby is an Associate Professor at the Division of Automatic Control, LiU. He had previously a position as Senior Scientist at FOI, and gradually moved to LiU through an adjunct position. He is supervising a handful of students with theoretical subjects relevant for security applications and is coordinating many of the projects in Wildlife Security. Gustaf is also involved in several collaborations between FOI and LiU, in particular a long-term project to provide indoor positioning to first responders using SLAM based on a foot-mounted IMU and opportunistic RSS measurements. This has so far resulted in two best paper awards at the IPIN conference.
Assistant professor Eva Blomqvist (IDA)
Eva Blomqvist is Assistant Professor, in the MDA lab (HCS division) at IDA, Linköping University. Research is focused on decision support systems, in particular for the security and crisis management domain. Particular interests include Semantic Web technologies, ontologies and ontology design patterns for supporting next generation decision support. Semantic Web technologies can enable easier information integration, as well as better event detection and abstraction of information and events within a decision support system, leading to improved situation awareness and more well-informed actions. The research is conducted in and international environment, including collaborations with several European institutions, such as the STLab at CNR in Italy and the University of Sheffield, UK, as well as within large EU-funded research projects, such as the VALCRI project aiming at improved support for criminal intelligence analysis. Eva also participate in several W3C community groups, where potential future standards in the field are discussed, such as the Emergency Information group and the RDF Stream Processing group.
FOI
Security Link funded research within FOI is governed by calls for proposals, evaluated by the Management Board. The funded projects are aiming at supporting both high scientific quality and cooperation between organizations in Security Link. The publications generated within these projects can be found here.
Since 2010 the following projects have been launched:
PROJECT |
YEARS |
CONTACT AT FOI
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SECURITY LINK RESEARCH AREA |
COLLABORATION |
| Integrated sensor system for maritime awareness | 2010-2011 | Rolf Ragnarsson | Advanced sensors and detectors | LiU, Sensor Informatics Chalmers, Radar Remote Sensing |
| Assessment on a system-of-systems level, with an applicatory study on autonomous systems | 2010-2012 | Anders Eriksson | Risk analysis and ethics of crisis management | KTH, Philosophy and History of Technology |
| MIMO for increased interference resistance i TETRA-based radio systems for first responders | 2010-2011 | Peter Stenumgaard | Secure and robust wireless communications | LiU, Communications Systems |
| Antennas for rapid sub-mm wave security imaging | 2011-2012 | Jan Svedin | Advanced sensors and detectors | Chalmers, Physical Electronics Lab |
| Radar Doppler analysis for security applications | 2011-2012 | Svante Björklund | Sensor and information fusion | LiU, Sensor Informatics |
| Anomalidetektion using statistical relational learning | 2011-2013 | Pontus Svenson | Sensor and information fusion | Pre-study |
| Advanced Laser Sensors and Informatics for Security (ALSIS) | 2011-2013 | Lars Sjöqvist | Advanced sensors and detectors | LiU, Automatic Control |
| Multisensorsystems for positioning of first responders | 2012-2014 | Jouni Rantakokko | Secure and robust wireless communications | LiU, Automatic Control KTH |
| SLAM&ATR | 2012-2014 | Stina Grönwall | Sensor and information fusion | LiU, Automatic Control |
| Analysis and management of IT‐incidents | 2012-2014 | Teodor Sommestad | Secure and robust wireless communications | KTH, Computer Science |
| Weak signals to detect lone wolf terrorists | 2012-2013 | Lisa Kaati | Decision support and coordination for emergency and crisis response | UU, Institutionen för informationsteknologi |
| Find and track humans with synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) | 2013-2015 | Lars Ulander | Advanced sensors and detectors | LiU, Sensor Informatics Chalmers, Radar Remote Sensing |
| Electronically scanned security imager for stand-off detection | 2013-2016 | Jan Svedin | Advanced sensors and detectors | Chalmers, Physical Electronics Lab |
| Detection of jamming and spoofing of GPS receivers | 2013-2014 | Erik Axell | Secure and robust wireless communications | LiU, Communications Systems |
| Coded aperture spectral imager for stand-off detection of trace amounts of explosives | 2015-2016 | Mattias Svanqvist | Advanced sensors and detectors | LiU, Sensor Informatics, Umeå University, Laser Physics Group, Chalmers, Computer Graphics Research Group |
| Avanonymisering av anonyma alias på webben | 2015-2016 | Fredrik Johansson | Risk analysis and ethics of crisis management | KTH, Division of Philosophy |
| Collaborative mapping for improved localization using opportunistic multifrequency RSS measurements | 2015-2017 | Jonas Nygårds | Sensor- and information fusion, Secure and robust wireless communications | LiU, Automatic Control |
| Rörlig fotonräknande lidar för avbildning i 3D | 2016-2018 | Markus Henriksson | Advanced sensors and detectors | LiU, Automatic Control |
| Passive radar for detection of low altitude, small and slow airborne targets | 2016-2018 | Thomas Sjögren | Advanced sensors and detectors | Chalmers, Radar Remote Sensing |
| Kommunikationseffektiv decentraliserad målföljning | 2017-2019 | Jonas Nygårds | Sensor- and information fusion, Secure and robust wireless communications | LiU Automatic Control |
| Mikro-Dopplerradar med bildbehandling och maskininlärning för säkerhetstillämpningar | 2018 | Svante Björklund | Sensor- and information fusion | LiU Automatic Control |
| Passive radar arrays for imaging in complex environment (PRICE) | 2017-2020 | Niklas Wellander | Advanced sensors and detectors | Chalmers, Radar Remote Sensing |