Magnus Boman

I am a professor of AI and Health at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Clinical Epidemiology. Come visit me at the beautiful Eugeniahemmet!

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My research is in Artificial Intelligence and how it

• may be used for precision medicine and multimodal prediction and prevention

• will make us think about evolving norms and values in future services and products

• can help us humans learn over time for cross-domain applications and then save or share those learned structures

• should take on energy-efficient forms that address the von Neumann bottleneck, such as reservoirs for neuromorphic computing

• can help translate the output from quantum sensors into meaningful and actionable information.

I teach the Precision Medicine track of the course Current Trends in Health Informatics (5HI024) at LIME. PhD students at KI, KTH and SU have to suffer me as their main supervisor. A list of finished Ph D theses can be found below, and under that a list of completed master (and a few bachelor) theses. Most of these students had me as supervisor or examiner at KTH, where I was a professor in Intelligent Software Services for 20 years.

Completed PhD theses:

Evangelia Gogoulou: Multilingual Language Models - Studies of Pre-Training Approaches and Hallucination Detection, TRITA-EECS-AVL 2024:90, KTH. December 2024.

Diarmuid Corcoran: Systematic Data-Driven Continual Self-Learning, TRITA-EECS-AVL 2023:29, KTH. May 2023.

Saranya Natarajan: Programming Language Primitives and Tools for Integrated Real-Time Systems Development, (asst supervisor) TRITA-EECS-AVL 2021:32, KTH. June 2021.

Kambiz Ghoorchian: Graph Algorithms for Large-Scale and Dynamic Natural Language Processing, TRITA-EECS-AVL 2019:85, KTH. December 2019.

Magnus Hjelmblom: Norm-Regulation of Agent Systems: Instrumentalizing an algebraic approach to agent system norms, DSV Report 15-014, Stockholm University, November 2015.

Pedro Sanches: Health Data: Representation and (In)visibility, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4749.5206, KTH. January 2015.

Baki Cakici: The Informed Gaze: On the Implications of ICT-Based Surveillance, DSV Report 13-006, Stockholm University. October 2013.

Jan Odelstad: Many-Sorted Implicative Conceptual Systems, DSV Report 08-012, KTH. December 2008.

Thomas Sandholm: Statistical Methods for Computational Markets---Proportional Share Market Prediction and Admission Control, DSV Report 08-006, KTH. May 2008.

Jarmo Laaksolahti: Plot, Spectacle and Experience---Contributions to the Design and Evaluation of Interactive Storytelling, (asst supervisor) DSV Report 08-001, Stockholm University. February 2008.

Markus Bylund: A Design Rationale for Pervasive Computing---User Experience, Contextual Change, and Technical Requirements, DSV Report 05-015, KTH. June 2005.

Lisa Brouwers: Microsimulation Models for Disaster Policy Making, DSV Report 05-012, Stockholm University. May 2005.

Stefan Johansson: On Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems, (asst supervisor), Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology. May 2002.

Bengt Carlsson: Conflicts in Information Ecosystems---Modelling Selfish Agents and Antagonistic Groups, (asst supervisor), Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology. December 2001.

Harko Verhagen: Norm Autonomous Agents, DSV Report 00-004, Stockholm University. May 2000.

Completed MSc theses:

Firoza Choudhury: "Streamlining and Optimizing Newborn Screening" (KI)

Ebba Hellberg: "Exploring GPT models as biomedical knowledge bases by evaluating prompt methods for extracting information from language models pre-trained on scientific articles" (KTH)

Henrietta Hellberg: "Connecting the dots - Exploring gene contexts through knowledge-graph representations of gene-information derived from scientific literature" (KTH)

Victor Lopo Martinez: "Bayesian Networks for Modelling the Respiratory System and Predicting Hospitalizations" (KI)

Alfred Nilsson: "Regularizing Vision-Transformers Using Gumbel-Softmax Distributions on Echocardiography Data" (KTH)

Côme Lassarat: "Self-learning for 3D segmentation of medical images from single and few-slice annotation" (KTH)

Robert Praas: "Self-Reflection on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models" (KTH)

Alexander Mo: "Transformer Offline Reinforcement Learning for Downlink Link Adaptation" (KTH)

Frida Skarf: "Uncertainty Estimation in Radiation Dose Prediction U-Net" (KTH, Receiver: RaySearch Laboratories)

Jiachen Yao: "Using unsupervised learning and feature analysis to investigate the composition of blended emotions" (KI)

Disen Ling: "Analyzing How Blended Emotions are Expressed using Machine Learning Methods" (KTH)

Orlinda Brahimllari: "Variant filtering and analysis for lymphoma: A proposal for an Artificial Intelligence-augmented system" (KI)

Mattias Ridell: "Leveraging Machine Learning to Predict Initial Treatment Outcome in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis" (KI)

Serkan Arda Yilal: "Prediction of Persistence to Treatment for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis using Deep Learning" (KTH)

Pierre Meyrat: "Spatiotemporal PET reconstruction with Learned Registration" (KTH)

Glacier Ali and Rebecka Gustavsson: "Risk Stratification of Acute Coronary Syndrome using Machine Learning: An analysis of CLEOS-CPDS data" (KTH B Sc thesis, Receiver: Danderyd hospital, Stockholm)

Rosario Silva Sepulveda: "Using Multimodal Machine Learning for Analysing Multifactorial Causes of Disease: The case of childhood overweight and obesity in Mexico" (KI)

Núria Rodríguez-Ruiz: "Multimodal Data Interpretation to Support Clinical Decision-Making: A Conceptual Design for Molecular Tumour Board Meetings for Lymphoma" (KI)

Added Kina: Task-Agnostic Knowledge Distillation of mBERT to Swedish" (KTH)

Ahmad Sadek: "Primary stage Lung Cancer Prediction with Natural Language Processing-Based Machine Learning" (KTH, Receiver: KI)

David Mellin: "Improving a Few-shot Named Entity Recognition Model Using Data Augmentation" (KTH, Receiver: Findwise)

Styliani Katsarou: "Improving Multilingual Models for the Swedish Language - Exploring Cross-Lingual Transferability and Stereotypical Biases" (KTH, Receiver: Peltarion)

Sevket Melih Zenciroglu: "Comparing Non-Bayesian Uncertainty Evaluation Methods in Chromosome Classification by Using Deep Neural Networks" (KTH, Receiver: Arkus AI)

Sarthak Langde: "QPLaBSE: Quantized and Pruned Language-Agnostic BERT Sentence Embedding Model - Production-ready compression for multilingual transformers" (KTH, Receiver: Sinch)

Robin de Groot: "Developing a Mobile Eye Tracking Solution using Transfer Learning" (KTH, Receiver: Lexplore)

Juan Aldamis Orcajo: "A Machine Learning Approach to the analysis of mortality in patients with cardiovascular diseases" (KTH, Receiver: Intelligent Data Analysis Laboratory, Valencia Uni)

Omar Emilio Contreras Zaragoza: "Explainable Antibiotics Prescriptions in NLP with Transformer Models" (KTH, Receiver: Peltarion)

Boris Bubla: "DistilLaBSE: Task-agnostic distillation of multilingual sentence embeddings" (KTH, Receiver: Sinch)

Bazil Muzaffar Kotriwala: "Predictive Maintenance of Construction Equipment using Log Data" (KTH: Receiver: Volvo Construction Equipment)

Einar Lennelöv: "Overcoming generative likelihood bias for voxel-based out-of-distribution detection" (KTH, Receiver: RaySearch)

Annika Gerigoorian and Maha Kloub: "A Cross-Sectional Technology Acceptance Study of an AI CAD System in a Breast Screening Unit" (KTH B Sc thesis, Receiver: Sankt Görans hospital, Stockholm)

Tengfei Ma: "A Graph Attention plus Reinforcement Learning Method for Antenna Tilt Optimization" (KTH, Receiver: Ericsson)

Esoon Ko: "Product Matching through Multimodal Image and Text Combined Similarity Matching" (KTH: Receiver: APPRL)

Johan Vikström: "Comparing decentralized learning to Federated Learning when training Deep Neural Networks under churn" (KTH)

Mastafa Foufa: "Anomaly Detection Across Multiple Languages" (KTH, Receiver: Microsoft, Dublin)

Pietro Alovisi: "Static Branch Prediction with Representation Learning" (KTH)

Eric Samikwa: "Multi-modal IoT sensing with edge computing for early warning systems" (KTH, Receiver: RISE, Kista)

Xin Ren: "Machine Learning for Genome-Wide Association Study Data" (KTH, Receiver: KI, Huddinge)

Marcos Fernández Carbonell: "Automated Multimodal Emotion Recognition" (KTH, Receiver: Stockholm University, Psychology Dept)

Ronja Jösch: "Managing Microservices with a Service Mesh---An implementation of a service mesh with Kubernetes and Istio" (KTH, Receiver: Sveriges Television)

Tongtong Fang: "Learning from noisy labels by importance reweighting: A deep learning approach" (KTH, Receiver: RIKEN AIP, Tokyo)

Christian Boersmaa: "Designing a platform to communicate posture and movement data to medical professionals" (KTH, Receiver: Qinematic)

Ottar Gudmunsson: "Gating Networks in Learning Machines for Multimodal Data: Decision Fusion on Single Modality Classifiers" (KTH, Receiver: RISE)

Diego Roa: "Analysis of Short Text Classification Strategies using Out-of-Domain Vocabularies" (KTH, Receiver: Celonis)

Hadi Sotudeh: "Predicting Undesired Business Process Behavior using Supervised Machine Learning" (KTH, Receiver: Celonis)

Mattias Arro: "Label-Efficient Multi-Objective Machine Learning for e-Commerce" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Erik Droh: "T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Data Preprocessing Impact on Image Classification using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" (KTH B Sc thesis)

Staffan Jansson Aldenfalk: "Prediction of Alarms in a Pump Station using Neural Networks" (KTH, Receiver: Xylem Inc.)

Tijmen Verhulsdonck: "One Shot Object Detection for Tracking Purposes" (KTH, Receiver: ETH / UC Berkeley)

Daniyal Shahrokhian: "Syna: Emotion Recognition based on Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Akash Singh: "Anomaly Detection for Temporal Data using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)" (KTH, Receiver: Ericsson)

Filip Stojanovski: "Churn Prediction using Sequential Activity Patterns in an On-Demand Music Streaming Service" (KTH, Receiver: Spotify)

Dominik Harz: "Trust and verifiable computation for smart contracts in permissionless blockchains" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Mazen Aly: "Automated Bid Adjustments in Search Engine Advertising" (KTH, Receiver: Precis Digital)

Andrea Azzini: "Deep Learning Quantification: Extracting Quantitative Information from Images using Convolutional Autoencoders" (KTH)

Henny Selig: "Continuous Event Log Extraction for Process Mining" (KTH, Receiver: Signavio, Berlin)

Robert Velu: "BarcodeCheck: Retrieval of Product Information" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Ali Merikh: "A Triplestore built on Document-Oriented Databases" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Mikael Stoltz: "A Parrondo asset allocation strategy based on a discrete time microstructure model" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Abdulah Kayal: "A Neural Networks Filtering Mechanism For Foreign Exchange Trading Signals" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Stephanie Habib: "Web Caching in IPTV Portals" (KTH, Receiver: Ericsson)

Anusharani Gopu: "Using non-medical risk factors related to dementia and cognitive decline for developing an evidencebased e-health tool" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Khurram Shairyar Qalander: "Translating policy statements of Abu Dhabi health authorities into Business Rules" (KTH)

Eric-Oluf Svee: "Time Geography and Structuration Theory as a Basis for Human-centered Microsimulation" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Mathias Engvall: "The design of an order flow simulator to validate algorithmic trading strategies" (KTH, Receiver: OMX)

Sharenya Krishnan: "Text-Based Information Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Jon Gretar Gudjonsson and Gary MacRitchie: "Strategy Adapting Trading Agent" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Henrik Aronsson: "Modeling strategies using predictive analytics: Forecasting future sales and churn management" (KTH, Receiver: Attollo)

Maryamossadat Nematollahi Mahani: "Resolving ambiguities in service robots' behavior" (KTH)

Alexander Bea: "Re-engineering two financial trading invoicing systems into one integrated solution" (KTH, Receiver: Nordicstation)

Somshree Mukherjee: "Ranking System for IoT Industry Platform" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Baki Cakici: "Pickman's Machine: A Reasoning Architecture" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Katarina Gyllenbäck: "Narrative bridging: A specification of a modelling method for game design" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Nicolas Grasset: "Multi-agent microsimulations with time geography" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Khandaker Tabin Hasan: "Metadata-rich Web development methodology" (KTH, Receiver: Univ of Trento)

German Gonzalez: "Kinematic tracking and activity recognition using motion primitives" (KTH, Receiver: Brown Univ, NY)

Ka Lok Chan: "Integration of browsing and searching for semantic information spaces" (KTH)

Zinat Sultana: "Improving the Design Method of the Analysis Pipeline for Spatial Transcriptomics" (KTH, Receiver: SciLifeLab/KI)

Robert Nilsson "Genetiska algoritmer och neurala nät tillämpade på aktiehandel" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Asim Ghaffar: "Visualization of Epidemic Spread" (KTH, Receiver: SMI)

Dimitrios Konstantinou and Sofia Savvidou "Benchmark för mobiltelefoner" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Niklas Boström: "Implementing advanced business logic for stock trade agents" (SU, Receiver: SICS)

Daniel Hilmersson: "SmartTrader: Implementing an Advanced Business Logic Agent for Agent Trade Servers" (Mid-Sweden University, Examiner: Prof Love Ekenberg, Receiver: SICS)

Tobias Hasselrot: "Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Internet Access Gateways: Using Agent-Based Electronic Markets" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Kristina Andréasson: "Modelling Infectious Disease Control" (SU, Receiver: SICS)

Jesper Johansson and Michael Poijes: "Agent Shell for Stock Market Systems" (SU, Receiver: SICS)

Jan Odelstad: "Artificial Agents and Norms" (SU)

Peter Hultman: "A Risk-Averse TAC Agent" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Wah-Sui Almberg: "Improved Pricing on the Stock Market with Trading Agents" (SU, Receiver: OM)

Vincent Hauser and Joakim Orrhult: "Network Monitoring for Networking Agents" (SU, Receiver: SICS)

Rikard Wigforss: "Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Computer Games" (KTH, Receiver: Grin)

Terese Lund: "Cell-phones and Context" (KTH, NADA, IPLab, Examiner: Anna Swartling, Receiver: SICS)

Björn Qvarsell: "Programming SIM Cards for Mobile Services" (KTH, Receiver: Razorfish)

Hilde Hasli and Jing Cheng: "Smart Downloading of Multimedia" (SU, Receiver: Ericsson Radio Systems)

Jari Pyyluoma: "The origin of law - An Epistemological Artificial Societies Approach" (SU)

Conny Loung: "Agent Behaviour in Groups" (KTH, Receiver: Ducere)

Magnus Hübner: "Pagent - A Search Engine Interface for Mobile Terminals" (KTH, Receiver: Toshiba, Tokyo branch)

Martin Kalén: "A JINI-Based Multi-Agent System" (KTH, Receiver: Spectral)

Erik Welander: "Decision Analysis on the Internet - The DELTA/CGI Pronouncer" (SU)

Sven-Erik Ceedigh: "Trading Agents" (SU)

Göran Eneroth: "Smart Equipment" (KTH)

Jannilla Lidén: "Agent Related Properties of Dutch and English Auctions" (SU)

Christian Guttmann: "A Software Architecture for Four-Legged Robots" (KTH)

David Lybäck: "Transient Diversity in Multi-Agent Systems" (KTH)

Olle Källander: Behaviour-Based Bots in Quake2" (KTH)

Håkan Younes: "Current Tools for Assisting Intelligent Agents in Real-Time Decision Making" (KTH)

Marcus Hammarberg and Mats Bovin: "Decision Support for Software Agents" (SU, Receiver: Telia Research)

Per Thorsson-Börd: "Adding Resource-Specific Information to Agents in a Multi-Agent System" (KTH, Receiver: Telia Research)

Sebastian Wand: "Building a Monitor for a Multi-Agent System" (KTH, Receiver: Telia Research)

Helena Åberg: "Agent Roles in RoboCup Teams" (KTH)

Åsa Åhman: "Decision Control in RoboCup Teams" (KTH)

Henrik Bergström: "Applications, Minimisation, and Visualisation of Finite State Machines" (SU)

Henrik Engström and Johan Kummeneje: "DR ABBility: Agent Technology and Process Control" (SU, Receiver: ABB Network Partner)

Daniel Ejderberg: "Creating a User Agent in a Distributed Information Retrieval Environment" (KTH, Receiver: Telia Research)

Ioannis Tzikas: "Agents and Objects: The Differences" (SU)

Lars Rasmusson: "Socially Controlled Global Agent Systems" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Andreas Rasmusson: "Interactive Security Assistance for End-User Supervision of Untrusted Programs" (KTH, Receiver: SICS)

Gabriel Fuchs: "On Diminishing the Gap Between Speed and Correctness in a Decision-Making System" (SU)