AAU: ’S DIGITAL UNIVERSITY

DENMARK’S MOST CITED COMPUTER SCIENTISTS • PARTNERS WITH LARGE COMPANIES SUCH AS VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS AND NOKIA BELL LABS • LARGEST ADMISSIONS TO IT PROGRAMS IN DENMARK ...

Aalborg University (AAU) offers research, teaching and knowledge sharing at the highest level in the digital Denmark. Big data, antenna technology, IoT, cyber physical systems and artificial intelligence aim directly and ambitiously at the government’s strategy for Denmark’s digital growth. Leading Danish digital companies emerge from AAU such as GomSpace, Reseiwe and Steinwurf.

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STRONG RESEARCH AREAS BEST IN EUROPE, FOURTH IN THE WORLD COOPERATION AGREEMENTS › Information Technology Leading international experts designated Annually, about 600 new research agree- AAU’s engineering programs #1 in Europe ments with public and private actors, incl. › Big Data/Data Intensive Systems and #4 globally. (The Global State of the Art in major digital businesses like Vestas Wind › Distributed and Embedded Systems Engineering Education, Massachusetts Insti- Systems and Nokia Bell Labs (Danish Agency tute of Technology (MIT), March 2018) for Science and Higher Education). › Internet of Things / Connectivity › Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning LARGEST ADMISSIONS TO DIGITAL 20% › Antennas and Mobile Technology IT PROGRAMS IN DK Professors with 20% work time at AAU › Wireless Communication AAU accounts for 28% of all IT program ad- and 80% in a company. Contributes to the › Acoustics and Audio Technology missions at Danish universities, while num- strong link between the university and the bers two and three account for 17% and 16% community. Includes Grundfos, B&O, GridData › Signal Processing (2018 Admissions to IT programs, Ministry of and Oticon. › Automation and Control Higher Education and Science). › Navigation and Communications AAU SCIENCE AND HUB CREATION OF THREE NEW IT PROGRAMS Construction of a DKK 200 million state-of- BEST ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE Three new IT programs: Data Science (BSc the-art building for interdisciplinary research and MSc) and Robotics (MSc) in 2018. AAU (DKK 100 million - A.P. Møller Foundation). Highly ranked: #1 in Europe and #4 in the thus offers 31 programs in IT. In innovative environments, researchers, world in Engineering (US News & World Re- students and companies partner to develop port 2019). #1 in DK and #49 in the world in business ideas to benefit Danish society Electrical ­Engineering (QS World University NEW DIGITAL LEARNING MODEL and the rest of the world. The activities will Rankings 2019). AAU launches a new digital version of its pro- support e.g. digital strategies of Danish com- ject- and problem-based learning model. The panies. Completion expected 2021/2022. new model features an even greater degree HIGHEST RANKED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN DK of project work. A large number of subject CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH SMES AAU is the highest ranked university in Den- modules support each project. The modules mark in Computer Science, measured either are regularly involved and as needed in the AAU emphasizes working with SMEs, such on total number of publications or number of project on a digital platform. as through the ICT cluster BrainsBusiness publications among the 10% most cited pub- and the IT innovation network InfinIT, certified lications in the area (Mathematics and Com- gold and bronze, respectively, by the Europe- puter Science, Leiden Ranking 2017). AMBITIOUS DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES an Cluster ­Excellence Initiative. As a specific strategy, students are to acquire targeted and strong digital competencies in MOST CITED COMPUTER SCIENTISTS IN DK COMMERCIALIZATION all AAU programs. The two computer scientists in Denmark with TO BENEFIT SOCIETY, E.G. the highest quality and relevance in terms of citations are Christian S. Jensen, and PROBLEM BASED LEARNING AND IT › GomSpace (space missions, nanosat- ellites, components – such as software Kim G. Larsen, Professor – both of AAU (h-index, The UNESCO Center for problem-based defined ­radio). From three AAU students Google Scholar 2018). learning and sustainability, located at AAU, to more than 150 staff, customers in 50 contributes to innovation in the field of digi- countries, market value approx. DKK 670 talization. FURTHER STRENGTHENING million. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Future-proofing of key areas: Distributed, em- In 2020, the center will organize a week of › Reseiwe (reliable wireless connections for bedded and intelligent systems, and Database, international PBL conferences focusing on ­industry, drones and defense): Founded by programming and web technology (DKK 17 new digital PBL models. These conferences an AAU researcher and an industrialist, mill. from the Poul Due Jensen Foundation. include the International Research Symposi- customers the world over, market value in um on PBL and PAN-PBL (in conjunction with DKK tens of millions the research project PBL Future). HOST OF HIGH-PROFILE CONFERENCES, E.G. › Steinwurf (software for fast and efficient › IEEE International Conference on Commu- data sharing via networks): Founded by nications, Control, and Computing Technol- researchers from AAU and MIT, customers ogies for Smart Grids. Chair: Petar Popo- the world over, market value in DKK tens vski, Professor of millions

› IEEE 5G Tutorial, European Edition. Chair: AAU IT ENTREPRENEURS Petar Popovski, Professor In the last year, 100 teams emerged as IT entre- › IEEE International Conference on Mobile preneurs with the help of AAU’s SEA (Support- Data Management. Chairs: Simonas Salt- ing Entrepreneurship at University). enis/Bin Yang, Associate Professors. Successes in previous years include Trifork (500+ staff) and Atira which has in the mean- › IEEE Conference on Control Technology & time been sold for app. DKK 100 million. Applications, Chair: Jakob Stoustrup, Professor