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𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 - 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻 🏘️ One path to green transition is to ensure that the heating of buildings works efficiently and aligns with the weather forecast, as our houses are significant energy consumers. New models developed using data from a residential area on the outskirts of Copenhagen Municipality, Tingbjerg, can help extract key energy performance characteristics like heat loss, solar gain, and diurnal periodicity from buildings using hourly district heating data. This approach helps optimize energy use, integrate renewable sources, enhance district heating systems, and guide data-driven renovations - all without direct indoor climate measurements. This work is published in Sustainable Cities and Society! Link in the comments 🎉 Congratulations to one of our PhD students at DTU Compute, Justinas Smertinas from the research section Dynamical Systems, and Associate Professor Peder Bacher and Erik Lindstrom from Lund University #dkforsk #smartenergysystems #districtheating #heatloss #renewableenergy #BuiltEnvironment #builtrenovations DTU - Technical University of Denmark

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗧𝗨 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜 🤖 On Wednesday, we had the great pleasure of welcoming H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates, along with his delegation. The Minister is very interested in artificial intelligence (AI), and we - DTU - Technical University of Denmark | DTU Compute - were happy to help. Thanks for the opportunity to you and the Danish delegation! During the visit, DTU's President Anders Overgaard Bjarklev, DTU Compute's Deputy Director, Professor Nicola Dragoni, and Head of Section, Professor Lars Kai Hansen presented the research and discussed the future with AI. One of our startups, BrainCapture, also explained their business case. Brain Capture has developed BC-1, a revolutionary mobile EEG device that enables high-quality EEG recordings on-site. BC-1 consists of a portable amplifier, an EEG electrode cap, and a smartphone app connected via Bluetooth. The system is designed to be user-friendly and can be operated by healthcare professionals after brief training. Brain Capture's cloud platform allows remote reading by experts and offers EEG as a service. The startup was originally based on research at DTU Compute in the cognitive systems research section. The UAE Minister, Abdullah bin Zayed, is on a tour and, in addition to Denmark, he will visit France, Sweden, and Finland. In Denmark, he also met with the HM King Frederik X, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and visited the Danish Parliament. #dkforsk #ai #dtu #digitalisation Photos: uaeincopenhagen Thank you, Thomas Mellerup, for organizing on behalf of DTU. And huge thanks to Acting Tech Ambassador Ditte Bjerregaard for joining the visit 🙏

⭐ 𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 ⭐Right now, our new PhD students are gathered for a two-day kickoff in our PhD School, filled with academic content and social activities where they can get to know each other better. The PhD School is mandatory for the students and at the same time a nice way for us to welcome them. Our approximately 150 PhD students are the engine behind research at DTU Compute, and each year 40-50 new students begin their three-year PhD project at our department. During the kickoff, they will, among other things, be introduced to DTU Compute’s diversity and well-being work, PhD supervision in practice, Popular Science Summary, and Code of Conduct. There is also plenty of time allocated for networking. The DTU Compute team: Vedrana Andersen Dahl, Head of the PhD School Sabrina Spangsdorf - Dr./PhD, Head of Diversity and PhD Coordinator Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Vice head of the PhD School Sebastian Moedersheim, Associate Professor, Scientific Systems Engineering Christian Majenz, Associate Professor, Cybersecurity section Josefine Vilsbøll Sundgaard, former PhD student, now Industrial Postdoc at Novo Nordisk and DTU (Visual Computing section) #PhDSchool #dkforsk #DtuEducation Photos: Sabrina Spangsdorf - Dr./PhD

Last Thursday, our partner, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, organized a fully booked workshop on quantum hardware engineering, hosted by DTU Compute. Speakers from both academia and industry shared their insights on the current state and future prospects of quantum hardware. One of the key takeaways from the workshop was the immense potential of quantum technology engineering, which relies on close collaboration between scientists, engineers, and companies. Building scalable quantum computers presents numerous challenges and requires continuous innovation at all levels. The workshop excellently covered these topics from academic, startup, and industry-leading perspectives. A huge thank you to everyone involved in making this event such a great success! #QuantumComputing #Innovation #Collaboration

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵, 𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴? If so, you might wonder how your so-called wearable measures sleep quality, especially when the numbers vary greatly even though you seem to sleep the same way night after night. Recently, readers of various Danish media outlets have encountered Associate Professor Jakob Eg Larsen from DTU Compute's research section Cognitive Systems, where he is an expert in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and personal informatics. The story is about the tech giants' secret formulas to measure sleep, written by the news agency /ritzau fokus/. It discusses the uncertainty associated with these measurements, which a machine learning model translates into a sleep quality score. It varies how well different wearables measure this. Typically, sleep is estimated based on a combination of heart rate, heart rate variability, movement, and in some models, also skin temperature, which varies throughout the night, explains Jakob Eg Larsen. Read more about Jakob Eg Larsen's research: https://lnkd.in/dHewTpen #dkforsk #HumanComputerInteraction

What is social intelligence? Popularly speaking, the essential component is the ability to put oneself in the shoes of someone else – to take someone else’s perspective. Humans routinely do this, but what about robots? For robots, it is not at all trivial to give them this ability (give them a “Theory of Mind” as it is called in cognitive psychology). It requires representing and reasoning about the mental states of others, which turns out to be both conceptually and computationally hard. In my research, I have been developing theories for giving agents, e.g. robots, the ability to both plan (automated planning) and represent the perspectives of other agents (dynamic epistemic logic). Together with my research assistant Lasse Dissing at DTU - Technical University of Denmark, we implemented the theories on a Pepper robot and recently presented some of our results to Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. In the video, we demonstrate the robot passing a social cognitive test that is usually used to test the social intelligence (more specifically, the Theory of Mind) of children. Not only does the robot pass this specific test, my research proves that it can pass any such so-called false-belief task, assuming no perception mistakes are made. This makes it stronger than the current generation of large language models (LLMs) and large reasoning models (LRMs) like ChatGPT and OpenAI’s o1, that are quite good at the standard false-belief tasks, but fail at variations and more complex tests. The practical perspectives of this research are for instance hospital robots that can robustly reason about the plans, goals and beliefs of humans (patients, staff, visitors). I am currently looking at applying it to implicit coordination in human-robot collaboration: how to make humans and robots work seamlessly together towards a shared goal without the need of explicitly “giving orders” or deciding beforehand who does what. Thanks to Lasse Dissing for participating in the video. And thanks to Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab for showing what a day can be like in the engine room of research on AI and robotics at DTU - Technical University of Denmark. Carlsberg Foundation Lundbeckfonden / Lundbeck Foundation Novo Nordisk Foundation DTU Compute #robotics #socialintelligence #dkforsk #research #science

🌠 We would like to welcome another PhD student, Alejandro Valverde Mahou, to our section for Cognitive Systems! 🌠 Alejandro’s PhD project, “𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀”, focuses on enhancing cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) radiation detectors by integrating machine learning and deep learning methods combined with physics. This aims to improve accuracy and efficiency in detecting high-energy cosmic phenomena, with applications in space exploration and medical imaging. We’re looking forward to following his research over the next couple of years! Read more about the project here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dqEJGkTF #dkforsk #DTU #DTUCompute #machinelearning #PhD

We're excited to introduce another PhD student, Chaohong Gao, to our Cognitive Systems section! 🎉   Chaohong's PhD project, "𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻", focuses on using machine learning to develop individualized brain mapping methods. This work aims to enhance neuromodulation treatments by improving behavior prediction, clinical prognosis, and DBS target localization.   We look forward to his discoveries and wish him the best!   Read more about the project here 👉 https://lnkd.in/drt-q4iv #dkforsk #machinelearning #DTU #DTUCompute #PhD

🎉 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! One of this year's recipients is PhD student Jens Visbech from the research section Scientific Computing at DTU Compute. We are, of course, very happy 🙏 Congratulations to Jens! 🎉 Jens' PhD project is in applied mathematics. He is developing new computer models to simulate how waves interact with each other and with different structures at sea. This involves using a type of advanced math called numerics to find approximate solutions to complex equations. These models can help the green transition by supporting the development of renewable energy technologies like wave and wind energy. The travel grant will primarily be used for a stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, where Jens will bring his family. Additionally, he will visit a research collaboration in Bordeaux, and he hopes to attend a few conferences and present new research results. Read more on Jens' website and at the Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet. Find links in the comments.   #dkforsk #greenenergy #appliedmathematics #math DTU - Technical University of Denmark

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