In this episode we meet Pontus Wärnestål, associate professor here at Halmstad University. Pontus just came back from the 5th Global Education Summit in Chandigarh in India where he held a lecture on the subject of AI. Of course we got curious about both what Pontus talked about but also the attitudes and reactions of his global colleagues from the other side of the globe. This episode is about different views on higher education and how it relates to the new technologies of AI.

On Tuesday 4/11 it's once again time for Halland Tech Week. In this episode we meet Anna Petersson and Tor Palm who give us a sneak peak from what to expect during the event. Tickets are released this week and can be purchased at https://hallandtech.se/

Today we meet the program manager of Halmstad University's new master programme in Experience Design. Dimitrios is an associate professor of design research and user experience at the university. His current research interests include design education, and design connected to ethics and wellbeing. Dimitrios works to ensure that technology works for and with people towards a more sustainable and equitable future. In this episode we discuss his thought on how to tackle the constant development within technology when designing design educations.

Link to the masters programme:
https://www.hh.se/english/education/programmes/masters-programme-in-experience-design.html

Dimitrios website:
https://www.dimitriosgkouskos.com/

In this episode we meet Roy (Yi Luo) and Simon Norris. Both Ph.D students at Halmstad university in human-centred artificial intelligence at the Department of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design. Simon is a designer and cognitive scientist with over twenty-five years of commercial experience and Roys' background is a mixture of human-computer interaction and psychology, with working experience in designing IoT devices with multimodal interaction. 

They have recently released their paper Developing AI literacy through design education in which they investigate how AI literary can be developed through design education. In this episode we discuss their research and findings.

Link to article: https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/nordes2025/researchpapers/25/

Lately we been seeing more and more tips and recommendations on how to automate our workflows with the new possibilities that GenAI offers. But how has it actually effected knowledge workers in general and people working in tech specifically? In this episode we meet Naomi Buseko Zulu-Chikumbi and Olga Plotnikova, both second-year PhD candidates in informatics at Halmstad University, working within the research program LEADS. Their research explores how people are using and reasoning around AI today.

Link to LEADS: https://www.hh.se/forskning/forskningsprogram/leads---larande-i-ett-digitalt-samhalle.html

In this episode we meet Elin Fritiofsson, the creator of the European AI Atlas. The AI atlas is a directory where you will find a collection of European based AI models. The directory is conviently organized into different categories so that you can easily find the models that suit your needs. In this episode we talk about why you should base your service on models built and based in Europe; the benefits and the drawbacks. On top of that Elin gives us some of her own recommendations on how to get started.
https://www.aiatlas.eu/

Alexander holds a Dipl.-Ing(FH) degree in Engineering Informatics fromFH-WS (2013) and an MSc in Embedded and Intelligent Systems from Halmstad University (2018). He has completed his studies with a PhDin Artificial Intelligence from Halmstad University under the supervision of Sławomir Nowaczyk. His research interests are mainlyin the areas of Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and DataMining, with a deeper interest in Bandit algorithms in the mHealth domain. In this episode we hear him discuss his thesis. The thesis focuses on improving medication habits for people with high blood pressure by providing personalized advice, part of the "iMedA" project. It tackles challenges in identifying who needs help through health records, predicting medication habits, and offering useful advice despite unreliable information. The work also explores starting with good policies using existing data and addresses privacy concerns in recommendation systems. Key contributions include identifying and fixing measurement problems, developing prediction methods, creating new personalized advice approaches, improving decision-making algorithms, and exploring privacy protection techniques.

Did you miss Halland Tech Week in Halmstad this year? No worries! The ELIZA podcast was there to interview the speakers and keep you updated on all the latest news from the event. In this episode we interview Pontus Wärnestål and Iida Höög about Sci-Fi litterature and how it relates to todays technological development. We also speak to Astrid Sjögren from AI Sweden who gives a lot of interesting recommendations on how you can deepen your knowledge about AI. 

Link to My AI: https://my.ai.se/home


Missade du Halland Tech Week i Halmstad i år? Ingen fara! ELIZA-podden var där för att intervjua talarna och hålla dig uppdaterad med alla de senaste nyheterna från evenemanget.I det här avsnittet pratar vi med Pontus Wärnestål och Iida Höög om Sci-Fi-litteratur och hur den relaterar till dagens teknikutveckling. Vi intervjuar även Astrid Sjögren från AI Sweden som ger oss massvis med bra exempel hur hur AI används idag samt tips på hur du kan fortsätta dördjupa dina AI-kunskaper.

Länk til My AI: https://my.ai.se/home

Did you miss Halland Tech Week in Halmstad this year? No worries! The ELIZA podcast was there to interview the speakers and keep you updated on all the latest news from the event. In this episode you will hear Marcus Purens, from SVT, psychologist Sebastian Michel and Sophia Lagerholm from Delphi speak about how AI is affecting their different professions and what they think about automatisation. The episode is in Swedish. Enjoy!


Missade du Halland Tech Week i Halmstad i år? Ingen fara! ELIZA-podden var där för att intervjua talarna och hålla dig uppdaterad med alla de senaste nyheterna från evenemanget.I det här avsnittet får du höra Marcus Purens från SVT, psykologen Sebastian Michel och Sophia Lagerholm från Delphi prata om hur AI påverkar deras olika yrken och vad de tycker om automatiseringen. Avsnittet är på svenska. Trevlig lyssning!

Curious about how Spotify works behind the interface? In this episode, we chat with Tonia Danylenko, Senior ML Engineering Manager at Spotify, who explains how the platform's recommendation system uses machine learning to personalize your listening experience. Tonia also gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to work at Spotify, sharing insights on the company’s culture and offering advice for those interested in tech careers. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Did you miss Halland Tech Week in Halmstad this year? No worries! The ELIZA podcast was there to interview the speakers and keep you updated on all the latest news from the event. In this episode you get to hear Jonas Birgersson talk about the future of electricity, Sofia Tegelid about how robots can enhance the museum experience and Åsa Zetterberg on the digital future in Sweden. The episode is in Swedish. Enjoy!

Missade du Halland Tech Week i Halmstad i år? Ingen fara! ELIZA-podden var där för att intervjua talarna och hålla dig uppdaterad med alla de senaste nyheterna från evenemanget. I det här avsnittet får du höra Jonas Birgersson prata om framtidens elektricitet, Sofia Tegelid om hur robotar kan förbättra museiupplevelsen och Åsa Zetterberg om den digitala framtiden i Sverige. Avsnittet är på svenska. Trevlig lyssning!

Mohammed Ghaith holds a PhD from Halmstad University in Sweden and is currently a postdoc researcher at the university. His research is focused on using Evolutionary Computation (EC) methods to design and optimize Deep Learning (DL) models. Mohammed Ghaith has developed feature selection, instance selection, and hyper-parameter tuning algorithms to improve the performance of DL models. Additionally, he has explored optimizing other design decisions of DL algorithms like loss functions for survival analysis and used EC algorithms to uncover insights about complex interactions between design choices for DL models in computer vision. His work is published in top journals (Expert Systems With Applications, Information Sciences), conferences (IEEE CEC, ACM GECCO, IEEE DSAA) within the field of AI and he has received a number of recognitions (2nd place in the ESREL 2020 conference AI competition) and awards (Global Swede 2017) for research excellence

In this episode, Tiago Cortinhal reflects on his extensive research journey during his PhD in computer vision. With a focus on autonomous vehicles, Tiago shares the challenges and discoveries from his numerous published works. He discusses how his research has explored integrating data from multiple sensors, such as LiDAR, to recover missing sensory information and enhance scene perception. Join Tiago as he humbly recounts the lessons learned, the research process, and the contributions his work has made to advancing autonomous systems.

In this episode we have the honor to have Anna Felländer, the founder of anch.ai as a guest. Anna has a background as an economist and has worked both as an advisor for the government as well as a chief economist at Swedbank. In 2018 she founded anch.ai, which aims at helping companies to comply with AI regulations and develop AI ethically. In this conversation we cover both the new EU AI Act as well as why it is so important that we regulate and try to mitigate the risks with AI.

In this episode we have invited Albert Bifet who is here to talk about open source in relation to AI. He is currently a guest professor at Halmstad University and is known for his work and research on machine learning for data streams, a field which he has nearly 20 years of experience in. Albert has been working on the development of open source software like Moa, Weka and River. In this episode we both discuss the benefits and risks with open source - and what should be open and what not. We also talk about how the development of ML-algorithms have developed through the years.

What does the laws say about the new technologies we see in generative AI or also called degenerative AI? What kind of compensation can artists expect and how should you as a user relate to these new technologies. Johan Cedmar-Brandstedt gives us some refreshing perspectives on this discussion and how both companies and individuals are relating to the subject at the moment. Don't miss out on this episode and please let us. know your opinion about GenAI/DeGenAI!

Have you heard about 0-click viruses and how does Sora stand against the new UN and EU legislation? And where could you find ethical GenAI models? If any of these subjects make you curious don't miss out on our latest episode of ELIZA AI News where we report about AI both locally and globally - from Halmstad to the world.

As an associate professor of experience design and information, Andrea Resmini shares his interesting ideas and philosophy on what happens when digital environments merge with physical space. In this episode we talk about how physical space and the digital layer are constantly effecting each other and what that implies for people and business. What kind of products and services can we be expecting in the future? What makes sense for businesses and humans? And what learnings from our immediate physical environment can we bring into the digital realm? Andrea also gives us his perspective and explain to us the concept about the Metaverse and how it all connects to AI.

In this first episode of ELIZA AI News we will give some background on how the podcast and Halmstad university is connected to each other, we visit Pontus Wärnestål at the university who gives us an update on what courses are running right now. We also speak to Anna Peterson from HighFive to hear what she has to share about recent AI activities in Halmstad. And last but not least Johan Cedmar Brandstedt from HiQ and Tor Palm from HighFive joins the podcast to talk about things like Nightshade, Apple Vision and the Metaverse.

Links:
https://h5halmstad.se/
https://maistr.se/

Olof Mogren, research leader at RISE, talks about some of the interesting projects he is involved in right now. We get to learn more about how AI can support researchers in understanding how nature changes and behaves through audio recordings and sound recognition. Listen to this episode to learn more about a fascinating technology that made us feel hopeful about the future.