HONORARY AWARDS 2023.11.15 Clean Sweep: Department of Computer Science takes home three Business Awards Two researchers and two students from the Department of Computer Science were presented with this…
AI 2023.10.13 The increasing carbon footprint of AI is a challenge. Here is what we can do about it Smart AI solutions have plenty of advantages, but they do not come free of cost for the environment…
AI 2023.08.30 Combining AI Models Improves Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Study from the University of Copenhagen shows that combining artificial intelligence (AI) systems…
Climate 2023.06.14 New Danish research centre will investigate wetlands’ potential in fighting global climate change The Global Wetland Center will acquire more knowledge on how wetlands can reduce the emission and…
Climate 2023.03.14 The counting of nine billion trees could help manage climate credits and nature restoration Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and NASA have developed a method that has now mapped…
event 2022.11.17 The Nordic AI Meet comes to Copenhagen in 2023 Next year the Nordic AI Meet will bring young AI researchers across the Nordics to Copenhagen, and…
FELLOWSHIP 2022.08.29 New DDSA Fellow will improve the predictions of protein variants using machine learning methods Richard Michael is one of the first ten candidates to receive the prestigious PhD fellowship from…
Artificial intelligence 2022.06.23 Let your mind control the computer With electric signals from human brains as the only input, new software can perform computerized…
PROTEINS 2022.04.08 New Machine Learning method provides more meaningful mappings of proteins In a unique collaboration, researchers from DIKU and DTU Compute have created a new technology that…
Insects 2022.02.21 Insect wingbeats will help quantify biodiversity Insect populations are plummeting worldwide, with major consequences for our ecosystems and without…
Technology 2021.11.24 New algorithm could save lives: Predicts COVID-related intensive care unit resource use A new algorithm can predict how many patients will need intensive COVID-related healthcare. This is…
PROTEINS AND AI 2021.08.31 Using artificial intelligence to fingerprint suspicious proteins An artificial intelligence tool created by researchers at the University of Copenhagen can quickly…
Data Science 2021.06.29 Danish Data Science gets extra boost: Everyone can apply for support from new academy Do you have a good idea for a PhD project, a course, or an event within data science? Soon, you wil…
artificial intelligence 2021.06.16 Algorithm reveals the mysterious foraging habits of narwhals An algorithm can predict when narwhals hunt – a task once nearly impossible to gain insight into.…
Artificial Intelligence 2021.06.08 Artificial intelligence enhances efficacy of sleep disorder treatments An algorithm based on 20,000 nights of sleep that can improve the diagnosis, treatment and our…
human-computer interaction 2021.05.14 Computers can now predict our preferences directly from our brain A research team from the University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki demonstrates it is…
Artificial intelligence 2021.04.07 Leading American researcher and DKK 350 million will take Danish artificial intelligence research to new heights A new pioneer center for artificial intelligence research will be opening in Copenhagen at the end…
Democracy 2021.03.29 Project hopes to ensure trust between citizens and algorithms DIKU is part of a new, broad consortium that has received DKK 100 million to study how data and…
COVID-19 2021.02.05 Computer can determine whether you’ll die from COVID Using patient data, artificial intelligence can make a 90 percent accurate assessment of whether a…
Grants 2021.01.27 The University of Copenhagen lands 9 out of 12 new data science grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation With its new major Data Science Initiative, the Novo Nordisk Foundation makes it clear that data…
Growth 2020.12.01 A record number of PhD students has been enrolled at the Department of Computer Science in 2020 Large demand from the industry and increased attention from foundations have boosted the growth of…
artificial intelligence 2020.11.03 Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms Within the scientific community, it is estimated that artificial intelligence — otherwise meant to…
New Professor 2020.10.27 New Associate Professor teaches computers to read your thoughts and feelings What if we could teach computers to decode our thoughts and emotions? DIKU's new associate professo…
TREES 2020.10.20 Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara There are far more trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel than most would expect. A combination…
Artificial Intelligence 2020.09.24 New project will crack the code to effective job matching with AI A new research project will develop a machine learning solution to help companies find the right…
Computer science 2020.08.22 New study: Eyes linger less on 'fake news' headlines A new study reports that people spend a little less time looking at 'fake news' headlines than to…
Climate 2020.04.22 Artificial intelligence may be the secret weapon in the climate fight Massive climate change alters the world’s ecosystems every day, but we lack effective digital tools…
corona virus 2020.04.02 Artificial intelligence to predict corona-patients' risk of needing ventilators Experts at the University of Copenhagen have begun using artificial intelligence to create computer…
Associate professorship 2020.03.25 Newly appointed Associate Professor will use machine learning to explain gender bias towards politicians On 1 February 2020, Isabelle Augenstein started her new position as an Associate Professor in DIKU’…
Scholarship 2020.03.09 Novo supports students' thesis on medical optimization Better medicine and detergents that are more effective may be the result of a thesis project made b…
International Women's Day 2020.03.06 Happy International Women’s Day: From one to five female professors in 18 months DIKU marks the International Women’s Day by celebrating our four newest female professors. Read her…
Artificial Intelligence 2019.12.12 Copenhagen is at the forefront of Machine Learning Copenhagen will contribute to catalyzing European AI research and business as one of the newly…
ELLIS PhD Award 2018 2019.10.15 Researcher receives prestigious award for combining NLP and eye tracking In her PhD thesis from 2018, Maria Barrett, postdoc at Department of Computer Science, University o…
DFF grants 2019.10.10 Economic boost for digital research at University of Copenhagen Researchers from Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen (DIKU) have received a…
NeurIPS and EMNLP 2019.10.04 Record-breaking number of DIKU-papers accepted at two top conferences Researchers from Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) have had five and…
machine learning 2019.08.27 Women are beautiful, men rational Men are typically described by words that refer to behavior, while adjectives ascribed to women ten…
New professor 2019.07.01 Newly appointed professor is playing a significant role in the artificial intelligence revolution In 2018, Christina Lioma became leader of the Machine Learning research section at the Department o…
Fintech symposium 2019.06.21 Overwhelming interest for AI and Blockchain at Fintech symposium More than 350 dedicated Fintech enthusiasts attended the symposium hosted by Copenhagen Fintech,…
Information Retrieval 2019.05.27 International AI success for DIKU’s Information Retrieval Lab In the last month, the Information Retrieval Lab has had a string of huge international successes i…
Diversitet 2019.04.12 Women in data science get together in Copenhagen The conference Women in Data Science (WiDS) is the first of its kind in Denmark. The purpose of the…
NLP Research 2019.03.13 Success at top NLP conference Weakly supervised, multilingual and multi-modal learning are the central research themes of the…
AI Competition 2019.02.19 International distinction in AI for DIKU's Information Retrieval Lab Researchers in the Information Retrieval Lab at DIKU has won the second place at a large…
COLLABORATION 2019.02.07 New collaboration will improve quality and sustainability of food and agricultural production A new strategic agreement between the University of Copenhagen and the analytics company FOSS will…
AI for Earth 2019.01.18 New AI project will take road detection from manual to automatic The Microsoft AI for Earth program, working to solve global environmental challenges, is supporting…
Natural Language Processing 2019.01.17 First place for Copenhagen NLP in SIGMORPHON shared task Yova Kementchedjhieva, Johannes Bjerva and Isabelle Augenstein from the NLP Group at Department of…
DATA SCIENCE 2019.01.08 Artificial Intelligence helps dyslexics read Free software from the University of Copenhagen simplifies difficult texts for people with dyslexia…
Top ranking 2018.11.26 Top position in Medical Segmentation Decathlon challenge Researchers from the Machine Learning Section and industrial partner Cerebriu obtained a top…
Artificial Intelligence 2018.11.12 New AI Seminar Series at University of Copenhagen SCIENCE AI Centre is pleased to announce a new AI Seminar Series which will highlight advances and…
Research papers 2018.10.09 Three papers from the Machine Learning Section accepted at NIPS Four researchers from the Machine Learning Section have had three papers accepted at the prestigiou…
NLP Research 2018.09.18 Several papers accepted at EMNLP 2018 The NLP research group in the Machine Learning section at DIKU has just had several papers accepted…
Research paper 2018.06.18 Large-Scale Random Forests In a paper just accepted at the prestigious KDD conference (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge…
Grand Opening 2018.04.20 A massive interest in Artificial Intelligence The Grand Opening of the new interdisciplinary SCIENCE AI Centre on 12 April 2018 demonstrated a…
Artifical intelligence 2018.02.08 New centre for artificial intelligence raises Danish research to a higher level A new centre at University of Copenhagen, named SCIENCE AI Centre, will analyse and interpret data…
Artificial Intelligence 2018.02.07 SCIENCE AI Centre raises Danish research to a higher level The new SCIENCE AI Centre at Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen will analyse and interpre…
Data Science Lab 2018.01.09 Data Science expertise for the Faculty of Science As of 2018, DIKU is a part of the newly established Data Science Lab (DSL) - an offer for students…