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28 million for research at Mid Sweden University
The Knowledge Foundation has granted more than 28 million for research at Mid Sweden University research environment Transformative Technologies.
Felix last PhD this year
Felix Dobslaw defended his doctoral thesis "End-to-end Quality of Service Guarantees for Wireless Sensor Networks" on December 11, 2015. Felix has examined different algorithms to obtain reliable wireless sensor networks in challenging environments such as industry, oil rigs and power plants.
See Magnus Hedins presentation at Business Innovation Seminar
Now you can watch Magnus Hedins presentation at Business Innovation Seminar. Magnus Hedin, VP Business Development at SDC, presented how SDC is working with innovation and what business challenges they are facing.
Victor defended his doctoral thesis
PhD-student Victor Kardeby defended his doctoral thesis "Resource Consumption in Distributed Internet of Things" November 25, 2015. He has investigated how to enable efficient communication between multiple mobile devices using distributing overlay network.
Research meet industry at Science & Innovation Day
The conference Science & Innovation Day is a new venue for industry and researchers in Sundsvall. This will facilitate the region's companies to get in touch with research and finding new development opportunities. About 170 people from the region's business community and academia are attending.
Sebastian returned to Mid Sweden University
In June 2014 Sebastian Schwarz defended his PhD thesis successfully and received his PhD-title. The day after he got married and then packed his bag to move to London were his new work at BBC waited for him. Now he is back to talk about his research work at BBC.
New PhD-students at STC
STC Research Centre like to welcome our new PhD-students. They will be doing their research within the new research projects ASIS, M2M Communication, LIFE and ID-POS that started out this year. Here you will get a presentation of the new PhD-students.
Shakeel defended his Licentiate thesis
Thursday, September 17, 2015, it was time for the PhD-Student Shakeel Ashraf to present his licentiate thesis "Design and Integration of Infrared Absorber Structures into Polymer Membranes based Thermal Detectors".
Knowledge Foundation visited STC and FSCN research centers
On Tuesday, September 15, the board and management of Knowledge Foundation visited Mid Sweden University. The Knowledge Foundation chose to locate its board meeting at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall and in connection to this they visited the research centers STC and FSCN to get a better view and presentation of the research conducted within the Knowledge Foundation Environment.
ABB held a guest lecture to master students
Monday, October 14, Johan Åkerberg and Tomas Lennvall from ABB Corporate Research in Västerås visited Mid Sweden University. During their visit they held a guest lecture to the students of the International Master's program in Computer Engineering.
Erik Fröjdh defended his doctoral thesis
On Tuesday September 8, it was time for PhD-student Erik Fröjdh to defend his doctoral thesis “Hybrid Pixel Detectors” to the grading committee.
Low delay in video streaming on the IoT-platform "Sensible Things"
It is August and the autumn semester for 2015 are about to start. The exchange student Federico Vincenzo Fiordigigli from Italy has just ended his 5 month long research work and is about to present his results to the researchers at STC and his professor from the Italian university L’Aquila.
High school thesis on virtual reality winner of 5 000 SEK
In the summer ending at Sundsvall Gymnasium Västermalm, the winners of this year's essay competition organized by the Mid Sweden University were presented. First prize, a scholarship of 5 000 SEK, went to Fredrik Lind with his essay "The real applications of a virtual world."
Yun Li defended his thesis
On Tuesday June 9, 2015, it was time for PhD-student Yun Li to defend his doctoral thesis to the grading committee.
Higher quality of compressed 3D-images
Improved quality of the experience of 3D-images and 3D-information that takes up less space and are easier to transfer. There are some recent results from the research center STC which develops 3D technology - from capturing to presentation.
Suryanarayana defends his doctoral thesis "Free view rendering for 3D Video" June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015 it is time for PhD-student Suryanarayana Murthy Muddala at the STC Research Centre to present his thesis ”Free view rendering for 3D Video”. Opponent is Professor Christine Guillemot, Universitaire de Beaulieu, France.
Bruno Silva from the University of Pretoria held a guest lecture at STC
In a new research project Mid Sweden University and the University of Pretoria, South Africa, started a joint research collaboration with the goal to strengthening the research in WSNs for industrial automation. As a part to the project PhD-student Bruno Silva from the research group Advanced Sensor Networks – ASN, visited Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall and held a guest lecture to researchers at STC.
Yun Li will defend his doctoral thesis June 9, 2015
On June 9 it is time for PhD-studen Yun Li to defend his doctoral thesis called "Coding of three-dimentional video content - diffusion-based coding of depth images and displacement intracoding of plenoptic contents"
Ericsson support research visit to Austria
STC researcher Muhammad Imran were granted 25 000 SEK from Ericsson Research Foundation. The money will be used to support Imrans research visit to Alpen-Andria University in Austria this spring 2015.
New camera technology can save lives on the roads
Patrik Jonsson an industrial PhD-student at STC presents his PhD thesis with a completely new measurement technology that can determine whether a road is wet, dry, icy or snow-covered. The technology can make deicing efficient and avoid accidents and save lives.
Swedish-Norwegian development projects were granted funds
At the first decision meeting of the EU program Interreg Sweden-Norway, STC was granted funding for a research project within the area “innovative environments”. The Steering Committee granted funds to a total of eight different projects and Mid Sweden University is involved in three projects.
Wireless sensor systems transform industrial processes
STC research centre has been granted 15 million SEK from the Knowledge Foundation to develop wireless sensor networks for industrial use. The project is unique in that three teams from different disciplines working together to faster come up with technical solutions that meet industrial requirements.
Patrik nailed his doctoral thesis
On Thursday afternoon, it was time for Patrik Jonsson to publish his doctoral thesis "Surface Status Classification Utilizing Image Sensor Technology and Computer Models" in a nailing ceremony. On May 5, it is time for him to defend his thesis to the examining committee.
Minister of higher education visited STC
On Monday April 20, the minister of higher education and research, Helena Hellmark Knutsson, visited Mid Sweden University. One of the stops was STC research centre where dr. Peng Cheng demonstrated his research with a new very efficient motor.
Dissertation invitation: Patrik Jonsson, Combitech AB
Tuesday Maj 5th it is time for industrial PhD-student Patrik Jonsson, from Combitech AB, to present his doctoral thesis at Campus Östersund. Opponent is Professor Torbjørn Eltoft, University of Tromsø.
