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Professor profile: Can IT solve the climate crisis?

Steffen Dalsgaard Business IT Department Research Events green IT

9 September, 2021

In his inaugural lecture at ITU, Professor Steffen Dalsgaard will broaden the perspective on how technology and digital solutions are employed in the climate crisis. The lecture will take place in Auditorium 0 at the IT University on October 1 at 2 p.m.

IT educators may ensure greater student diversity with people-themed teaching

Claus Brabrand Computer Science Department Education Research diversity

24 August, 2021

Two new research articles suggest simple ways for IT educators to plan teaching practices and course material in order to attract a broader student demographic. The research results were recently presented at the renowned ACM International Computing Education Research conference (ICER 2021).

Professor Profile: Barbara Plank wants to broaden the field of NLP to deal with variability in language use

Barbara Plank Computer Science Department artificial intelligence

24 August, 2021

Barbara Plank has been appointed professor at the Computer Science department at ITU. Her ambition is to broaden the scale of Natural Language Processing and make it more inclusive. She will be giving her inaugural lecture entitled “NLP for everyone” in auditorium 3 at ITU on September 2.

ITU researchers receive funding to create digital mental healthcare platform for Syrian refugees

Lars Rune Christensen Research Business IT Department grants

16 August, 2021

The Novo Nordisk Foundation is financing a one-year project aiding healthcare workers and Syrian refugees in Jordan to the tune of two million kroner. The project is spearheaded by Associate Professor Lars Rune Christensen and PhD fellow Hasib Ahsan who have previously worked on digital healthcare screening of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Professor Profile: Sebastian Risi develops AI by having machines play videogames

Sebastian Risi About ITU Digital Design Department artificial intelligence computer games

4 August, 2021

How do you teach a computer to be creative and adaptive? The same way we humans learn it: by playing games and solving problems. Professor of Digital Design Sebastian Risi uses games to train neural networks for problem solving in the real world. He will give his inaugural lecture entitled "Creative AI: Machines that Play, Adapt, and Create" on August 23.

New technology detects and measures online hate against women

Leon Derczynski Computer Science Department Research algorithms social media

27 July, 2021

ITU researchers have completed a large-scale collection, classification, and categorization of misogyny in Danish social media. It is a potential gamechanger in the fight against abusive online behaviour.

Megaproject mastermind moves from Oxford to ITU

About ITU Computer Science Department Research digitization

30 June, 2021

Project managers’ must-read and megaproject master. The renowned scholar has many names. Soon Professor Bent Flyvbjerg will also have a Danish postcode again. A grant of DKK 30 million from VILLUM FONDEN has enabled the IT University of Copenhagen to recruit the leading international researcher.

ITU led project will make automated translation more reliable

Leon Derczynski Computer Science Department Research algorithms data science

2 June, 2021

According to associate professor at the IT University, Leon Derczynski, the Danish Gigaword Project has the potential to improve everything from automated translation to misinformation detection.

Meet the ITU researcher paving the way for a better bicycle infrastructure in cities

Computer Science Department Research big data data science

27 May, 2021

Associate professor in Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, Michael Szell, studies human movement on a large scale among other things to improve conditions for bicyclists in major cities. He is co-author of a ground-breaking paper on human mobility published in the scientific journal Nature.

New research project aims to prevent flaws in critical software

Marco Carbone Computer Science Department Research grants innovation programming languages software

17 May, 2021

Hospitals, banks, and airports—today, software is at the heart of many of society’s critical functions. A new research project, led by Associate Professor at the IT University, Marco Carbone, aims to develop mathematical models to prevent flaws in critical software. The project has recently been awarded 2.8 million kroner from Independent Research Fund Denmark.

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