Fredrik Heintz

Professor, Head of Division, Head of Unit

Professor Fredrik Heintz is Head of the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Systems (AIICS), and
leads the Reasoning and Learning unit (REAL) at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA).

Trustworthy artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and stream reasoning

Dr. Fredrik Heintz is Professor of Computer Science. His research focus is artificial intelligence especially Trustworthy AI, autonomous systems, stream reasoning and the intersection between knowledge representation and machine learning.

He leads the Reasoning and Learning lab within the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Systems (AIICS) in the Department of Computer Science (IDA).

Fredrik Heintz is

Program Director of
Director of the Graduate School for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program
Director of the Linköping University’s AI initiative
Coordinator of the
President of the Swedish AI Society
Member of the CLAIRE extended core team
Member of the EurAI board
Member of the
Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

He is also very active in education activities both at the university level and in promoting AI, computer science and computational thinking in primary, secondary and professional education.

CV in brief

University degrees and PhD鈥檚

Professor, Computer Science, September 2021, Link枚ping University, Sweden
Docent, Computer Science, January 2014. Link枚ping University, Sweden
Ph.D., Computer Science, March 2009. Link枚ping University, Sweden
M.S., Computer Science, April 2000. Link枚ping University, Sweden

Visiting fellowships and postdoc positions

Guest researcher, Dep. of Communication and Media. Aug 2019 鈥� Jun 2020. Lund University.
Visiting postdoc to Professor Michael Beetz and the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group. June 2009. Munich Technical University, Germany.

Supervision of students and post-docs

Supervisor postdoc

Jose Luis Lima (KAW), 2021-
Resmi Ramachandranpillai (ELLIIT), 2021-

Main supervisor PhD Students

Daniel de Leng (CUGS), PhD dec 2019
Mattias Tiger (WASP), 2015-
Fredrik Präntare (WASP), 2017-
Johan Källström (WASP/Saab), 2018-
David Bergström (KAW), 2020-
Md Fahim Sikder (KAW), 2020-
Erik Nikko (WASP/Saab), 2020-
Dennis Malmgren (WASP/Saab), 2021

Co-supervisor PhD Students

Katarina Sperling (LiU/IBL), 2020-
Katarzyna Söderlund (WASP-HS/LU), 2020-
Kashyap Haresamudram (WASP-HS/LU), 2020-
Marie Francisco (LiU/TEMA), 2021-
David Landén, Lic 2011

Prizes and Awards

Best student paper award to his PhD student Fredrik Präntare for their paper Hybrid Dynamic Programming for Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment, 2020.
Prize for outstanding teaching effort, Linköping University, 2019.
Best paper award Tunable Dynamics in Agent-Based Simulation using Multi-Objective Rein-forcement Learning at Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop, 2019.
Best student paper award to his PhD student Fredrik Präntare for their paper An Anytime Algo-rithm for Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment, 2018.
Best experience reports and tools paper award for Computational Thinking for All - An Experi-ence Report on Scaling up Teaching Computational Thinking to All Students in a Major City in Sweden at the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2018.

Publications

2026

Sanjay Chakraborty, Jonas Björk, Martin Dahlqvist, Johanna Rosén, Fredrik Heintz (2026) Computer Science Review, Vol. 59, Article 100845 (Article in journal)

2025

Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz (2025)

Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden, Linda Mannila, Jonas Hallström, Charlotta Nordlöf, Fredrik Heintz (2025) Postdigital Science and Education, Vol. 7, p. 719-749 (Article in journal)

Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandran Pillai, Fredrik Heintz (2025) Machine Learning with Applications, Vol. 20, Article 100652 (Article in journal)

Linda Mannila, Jonas Hallström, Charlotta Nordlöf, Fredrik Heintz, Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden (2025) ACE '25: Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Computing Education Conference, p. 85-94 (Conference paper)

News about Fredrik Heintz

Portr盲tt av Fredrik Heintz som sitter i en trappa

National initiative to protect AI systems from cyberattacks

LiU will host a new national centre aimed at developing resilient AI systems. The funding of SEK 60 million comes from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and its director will be LiU Professor Fredrik Heintz.

Centres of Excellence strengthen LiU鈥檚 research

The investment in four prominent research environments, Centres of Excellence, will ensure long-term development, improved quality and deeper collaboration for LiU.

Mutual reinforcement of ethics and trust in AI

LiU hosted the seminar "Mutual Reinforcement of Ethics and Trust in AI" as part of the TrustLLM project. The event gathered participants from academia, industry, and the public sector.

Projects in research and education

Cybersecurity

Welcome to the cybersecurity platform at the Department of Computer and Information Science at 福利姬. Here you can find information about research and education in cybersecurity, as well as researchers and teachers active in the field.

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TAILOR 鈥� A European network of AI excellence centres

TAILOR is a European project coordinated by 福利姬, with the aim to build the capacity to provide the scientific foundations for Trustworthy AI in Europe. TAILOR is also a network of research excellence centres.

TrustLLM - trustworthy, open and sustainable language model for European languages

TrustLLM is a European project coordinated by 福利姬. The project will develop a language model for European languages including Swedish and is to benefit citizens and industry alike.

Research environments

WASP - Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

The fourth industrial revolution is upon us, as automation becomes autonomy. LiU conducts outstanding research in several of the fields that are central to the Wallenberg AI Autonomous Systems and Software Program, WASP.

AI - Artificial intelligence is changing our lives

LiU has over 100 university courses related to AI and AI competence at every department. AI at LiU is about AI techniques as well as applications of these techniques, about views on AI, how it benefits society, ethical guidelines etc.

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AI Academy

AI Academy is an initiative that seeks to challenge talented students from a wide variety of programmes with exciting real-world AI problems.

About the division

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Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems (AIICS)

The AIICS division is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division's main focus is research and teaching in artificial intelligence, its theoretical foundations and its applications.

Colleagues at AIICS

福利姬

Fredrik Heintz

Trustworthy artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and stream reasoning

CV in brief

University degrees and PhD鈥檚

Visiting fellowships and postdoc positions

Supervision of students and post-docs

Supervisor postdoc

Main supervisor PhD Students

Co-supervisor PhD Students

Prizes and Awards

Publications

2026

2025

News about Fredrik Heintz

National initiative to protect AI systems from cyberattacks

Centres of Excellence strengthen LiU鈥檚 research

Mutual reinforcement of ethics and trust in AI

Shaping AI technology for the benefit of society globally

Collaboration between humans and AI - focus for conference

ISY Day 2024 鈥� AI in Society, Education, and Research

How can AI be made secure and used to create safety?

Developing a reliable ChatGPT for European languages

SEK 13 million for research into solving murders using AI

鈥淎 small step for research but a giant leap for utility鈥�

The AI-shortcut requires re-thinking of examination

The road to future AI is paved with trust

WASP-ED to make Swedish universities leading in AI

Learn the fundamentals of AI with Fredrik Heintz

LiU to lead major European AI network

AI research holding its breath

AI advancing on a broad front

Projects in research and education

Cybersecurity

TAILOR 鈥� A European network of AI excellence centres

TrustLLM - trustworthy, open and sustainable language model for European languages

WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Digital4Business

Research environments

WASP - Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

AI - Artificial intelligence is changing our lives

AI Academy

About the division

Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems (AIICS)

Colleagues at AIICS

About the department

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

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