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Marie Roald successfully defended her PhD thesis
On Monday, September 4th, Marie Roald successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Understanding the Dynamics of Complex Systems Through Time-Evolving Data Mining”.
Azza Ahmed successfully defended her PhD thesis
On Wednesday, May 31st Azza Hassan Mohamed Ahmed successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Control Principles for Autonomous Communication Networks”.
Norwegian mobile broadband — tenth annual report
Simula Metropolitan’s Center for Resilient Networks and Applications (CRNA) performs long-term measurements of Norwegian mobile broadband networks. The measurements form the basis for an annual report on the stability and performance of these networks. The tenth report (in Norwegian) has now been released.
Celebrating International Women’s Day - interview with Azza Ahmed and Andrea Storås
On the occasion of International Women’s Day and this year's theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” we have talked with two of our female researchers to celebrate women’s contributions to the field and promote more diversity and inclusivity.
How can artificial intelligence and virtual avatars be used in investigative interviews with children?
On December 6th, OsloMet and SimulaMet welcome you to the conference where three world-leading psychology professors talk about opportunities and challenges in the use of artificial intelligence and virtual avatars in revealing interviews with children. In addition, we will present the Avatar project, with a demonstration of the avatar.
Rising interest in datasets and machine learning models for colonoscopy images
For many years researchers at SimulaMet have worked on datasets consisting of colonoscopy images and videos, and developed machine learning models trained on this data. There is a rising interest in these developments, and they are for example used in the Nvidia Clara Holoscan, and mentioned in the 2022 AI Index from Stanford University.
The final LUCS-PACE Summer School
In the end of August, PhD students and MSc students attended the last LUCS and PACE summer school in Sundvolden, Norway. This year's summer school was titled "From Energy Systems to Energy Justice".
Surveillance in Norway in light of the war in Ukraine
Arendalsuka 2022 was last week, and Simula organised two events this year. The first event was a panel discussion on how the war in Ukraine affects our willingness to provide the security authorities with interventional measures. The event was led by Professor Olav Lysne, director of SimulaMet. Read on for a recording of the event (in Norwegian), or a short summary of what was discussed.
Olav Lysne awarded Researcher of the Decade
Director of SimulaMet, Prof. Olav Lysne, was named Simula Researcher of the Decade at Simula’s 20th-anniversary celebration. The award was given in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the development of Simula.
Steven Hicks succesfully defended his thesis
On Tuesday, June 14th, Steven Hicks successfully defended his PhD thesis titled «Transparency in Medical Artificial Intelligence».
Norwegian mobile broadband - ninth annual report from CRNA
Simula Metropolitan’s Center for Resilient Networks and Applications (CRNA) performs long-term measurements of Norwegian mobile broadband networks. The measurements form the basis for an annual report on the stability and performance of these networks. The ninth annual report has now been released.
PhD Thesis award to Vajira Thambawita
Research Scientist Vajira Thambawita has been awarded the IEEE Technical Community on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS) 2021 PhD Thesis Award for his thesis “DeepSynthBody: the beginning of the end for data deficiency in medicine”.
Cise Midoglu successfully defended her PhD
On Thursday, April 7th, Cise Midoglu sucessfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Empirical Analysis of QoS and QoE in Mobile Broadband Networks".
What happened to the cyberwar?
Professor Olav Lysne, Director of SimulaMet and Haakon Bryhni, head of CRNA at SimulaMet recently published an op-ed in Aftenposten discussing cyber warfare in Ukraine.
The final LUCS-PACE research workshop on energy informatics
The LUCS and PACE INTPART projects jointly held a PhD research workshop for partners at the Technical University of Munich (TuM) from Wednesday, 2nd of March, to Friday, 4th of March, 2022.
Hongjia Wu successfully defended his thesis
On March 8th, Hongjia Wu successfully defended his thesis "Adaptive Multipath Scheduling for 5G Networks and Beyond: A Learning Perspective".
Six trends for the use of artificial intelligence in health
The Norwegian Board of Technology (Teknologirådet) recently launched a report predicting how artificial intelligence will contribute to the future of clinical health care. Chief Research Scientist Michael A. Riegler from SimulaMet was part of the expert group for the project.
SimulaMet part of EU project to improve patient outcome in acute stroke treatment
SimulaMet is part of a consortium of 10 institutions in the VALIDATE project - acronym for Validation of a Trustworthy AI-based Clinical Decision Support System for Improving Patient Outcome in Acute Stroke Treatment.
Debesh Jha successfully defended his thesis
On January 21, Debesh Jha successfully defended his PhD thesis "Machine Learning-based Classification, Detection, and Segmentation of Medical Images".
Daniel Thilo Schröder successfully defended his thesis
On January 19, Daniel Thilo Schröder successfully defended his PhD thesis "Explaining News Spreading Phenomena in Social Networks“.
APSIPA Best Paper Award to SimulaMet researchers
Vinay Gogineni and Valeriya Naumova, along with Stefan Werner and Yih-Fang Huang, won the APSIPA Best Paper Award for their paper entitled “Graph Kernel Recursive Least-Squares Algorithms”.
First PhD Graduate from Engineering Science at OsloMet and SimulaMet
On December 15th, Vajira Thambawita became the first graduate from the PhD program for Engineering Science at OsloMet and SimulaMet with his thesis “DeepSynthBody: the beginning of the end for data deficiency in medicine”.
Vajira Thambawita successfully defended his thesis
On December 15, Vajira Thambawita successfully defended his thesis "DeepSynthBody: the beginning of the end for datadeficiency in medicine» for the PhD in Engineering Science at OsloMet and SimulaMet.
Associate Professor Sabita Maharjan and Professor Yan Zhang among the most highly cited researchers in the world
We are proud to announce that two of our colleagues at SimulaMet are listed on Clarivates “Highly cited researchers” in 2021.
Simula researchers in the new convergence environment AUTORYTHM
Marie E. Rognes and Michael A. Riegler will join an interdisciplinary research group with five researchers from UiO. Together they will study the recycling system of our cells in time and space - ultimately aiming to improve people’s health and life span.
SimulaMet has a new department
Signal and Information processing for Intelligent Systems (SIGIPRO) is a cross-disciplinary department, established in November, 2021, and led by Baltasar Beferull-Lozano.
First student to complete his PhD from the educational collaboration between Simula and TU Berlin
On Wednesday, November 10th, 2021, Saeed Shafiee Sabet successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Understanding and Mitigating the Influence of Delay on Cloud Gaming Quality of Experience", and became the first PhD student to dispute as a result of the educational collaboration between Simula and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin).
GAIA Workshop
“From the cyber to the physical: a multi-scale mapping of the Internet infrastructure and services.”
Green Computing meets Green Energy
In the beginning of September PhD students and MSc students attended the Summer School in Lille, France on Green Computing meets Green Energy.
SimulaMet is part of the green platform project “Low-emission value chain for offshore aquaculture”
18 world-leading aquaculture companies, suppliers and research institutions join forces to make sustainable aquaculture at sea a new Norwegian industrial adventure.
MedAI: Transparency in Medical Image Segmentation
The dataset competition is a collaboration with the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA), where participants will be invited to submit to four different tasks.
Workshop: Presenting our research on machine learning and data science
The Machine Intelligence Department (MIND) and the Department of Holistic Systems (HOST) at SimulaMet are hosting a virtual event on June 22, where ongoing research on machine learning and data science will be presented.
SimulaMet research highlighted by Henrik Asheim
Norway's Minister of Research and Higher Education pointed out SimulaMet's DeCipher project as research with clear value for society.
Norwegian mobile broadband - eighth annual report from CRNA
Simula Metropolitan’s Center for Resilient Networks and Applications (CRNA) performs long-term measurements of Norwegian mobile broadband networks. The measurements form the basis for an annual report on the stability and performance of these networks. The eighth annual report has now been released.
Grand Challenge on Detecting Cheapfakes
SimulaMet's HOST department is co-organising a grand challenge on the detection of "cheapfakes" together with YouTube, the University of Bergen (UiB), and the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
PACE/LUCS research workshop
In the beginning of this week the projects PACE and LUCS held a research workshop on smart-grids and energy informatics.
New tool and guide on evaluation metrics for medical applications of AI
MediMetrics is a new open source tool created by researchers from SimulaMet to help researchers calculate various metrics commonly used to evaluate machine learning models.
Improving distribution of workload from mobile devices
By drawing on several SimulaMet research projects, Thomas Dreibholz (SimulaMet) and Somnath Mazumdar (Copenhagen Business School) have managed to prove a concept where open source software components are being used to improve distribution of workload from mobile devices into Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) and public multi-cloud resources.
Winner of the 3rd International Endoscopy Computer Vision Challenge (EndoCV)
Michael Alexander Riegler, Steven Hicks, Vajira Thambawita and Pål Halvorsen from the department of Holistic Systems at SimulaMet just won the ISBI (International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging) polyp segmentation challenge.
SimulaMet researchers in the media
In an article published in Aftenposten, Research Professor Haakon Bryhni and other actors from business and academia, discuss how The Ministry of Local Government and Modernization’s proposal for a model for allocating the 5G-network must be changed.
SimulaMet partners with LHL hjerneslag, ResQ Biometrics and Stavanger University Hospital
The new project is funded by stiftelsen DAM and will use artificial intelligence for instant recognition of strokes.
HOST is developing artificial child avatars for interview training of child-welfare and law-enforcement professionals
The aim of this project is to improve interviews with maltreated children through a training program using realistic and interactive child avatars.
Olav Lysne awarded the Trust and Transparency Award
Professor and director of SimulaMet, Olav Lysne, has been awarded the Trust and Transparency Award by SecurityScorecard for his book “The Huawei and Snowden Questions: Can Electronic Equipment from Untrusted Vendors be Verified”.
SimulaMet is cooperating with UiT on the new Female Football Center
The Department of Holistic Systems at SimulaMet is collaborating with UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and Forzasys AS on the new Female Football Centre (FFC) funded by the Tromsø Research Foundation.
A new research centre opens at Simula Metropolitan
A new research centre focused on efficient digitalisation of the public sector has now opened at Simula Metropolitan. The centre will exclusively look at providing knowledge about what leads to successful digitisation in the public sector, and to disseminate knowledge that leads to higher efficiency and more value creation.
Norwegian mobile broadband - seventh annual report from CRNA
Simula Metropolitan’s Center for Resilient Networks and Applications (CRNA) performs long term measurements of Norwegian mobile broadband networks. The measurements form the basis for an annual report on the stability and performance of these networks. The seventh annual report has now been released.
Simula is working with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Together with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Simula has developed a voluntary app that can reduce the time needed to track the spread of Covid-19.
SimulaMet is operational, but closed to all visitors
SimulaMet is closed to all visitors in response to the corona virus pandemic.
Launch of the SimulaMet Interoperability Lab
SimulaMet is proud to announce the SimulaMet Interoperability Lab (SMIL). SMIL is an experimental environment for research and innovation related to wireless technologies in a multi-vendor environment with focus on 5G and IoT.
Cooperation between Huawei Technologies and SimulaMet in the SimulaMet Interoperability Lab
SimulaMet announces today a unique industry cooperation in the SimulaMet Interoperability Lab (SMIL) with Huawei Technologies. Through this cooperation, SimulaMet will get access to the latest 5G terminals and basestations and the parties will work together to demonstrate new services and applications possible with 5G.
Cooperation between TransPacket and SimulaMet in the SimulaMet Interoperability Lab
SimulaMet announces today a unique cooperation with the Norwegian startup company TransPacket in the SimulaMet Interoperability Lab (SMIL). SimulaMet and TransPacket will work together to design and improve fronthaul network technologies for 5G.
Cooperation between nLogic and SimulaMet in the SimulaMet Interoperability Lab
SimulaMet announces today a unique cooperation with nLogic in the SimulaMet Interoperability lab (SMIL). SimulaMet and nLogic will work together to design and test network solutions for 5G in the new lab.
Minister of Digitalisation Nikolai Astrup visited Simula
Monday, October 28, the Minister of Digitalisation Nikolai Astrup visited Simula at Fornebu.
Michael Riegler becomes a member of The Young Academy of Norway
Simula’s Senior Research Scientist Michael Rigeler has been invited to become a member of Akademiet for Yngre Forskere (The Young Academy of Norway).
Norwegian mobile broadband - sixth annual report from CRNA
Simula Metropolitan’s Center for Resilient Networks and Applications (CRNA) performs long term measurements of Norwegian mobile broadband networks. The measurements form the basis for an annual report on the stability and performance of these networks.
SimulaMet and NTNU host a PreParanoia Cyber Symposium
As part of the Paranoia 2019 Conference, Simula Metropolitan and NTNU Center for Cyber and Information Security came together to host a Cyber Symposium.
Debate: Huawei - at what risk?
On March 6th, NUPI and SimulaMet invited the security manager in Huawei Norway to debate cybersecurity.
Official opening of Simula Metropolitan
Around 100 guests were present in Festsalen at OsloMet to celebrate the official opening of Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet) Thursday, January 31st.
Olav Lysne visits NRK Urix
Professor and Director of Simula Metropolitan Olav Lysne guested NRK Urix on Wednesday, January 30th to discuss Huawei and societal security.
Magne Jørgensen in Computerworld
In an article published in Computerworld, Chief Scientist at SimulaMet Magne Jørgensen, discusses a recent survey conducted by SimulaMet. The survey looked at the relationship between system developer skills and their workload estimates in IT development.
