Visiting Professors

Prof. Axel Jantsch a pioneer in Network-on-Chip (NoC), received his Ph.d. in Computer Science from Technical U. of Vienna (TUV) in 1992. After a postdoc at KTH in Stockholm, he became a professor and head of the department for electronic systems at KTH, where his group introduced the term NoC. Since 2015, he has been at TUV, focusing on self-aware cyber-physical systems, embedded machine learning, and digital twins.
Professor Jantsch joined MDU as a Guest Professor 2024 within the ECE research direction. At MDU, he works on AI, machine learning, and digital twins in distributed systems. His efforts strengthen MDU’s international position, foster collaborations with TUV, and support Swedish industry challenges through impactful research and education initiatives. The collaboration envisions establishing a joint educational program and fostering new research opportunities, benefiting MDU’s academic and industrial partnerships while addressing Swedish industry needs.

Prof. Tommaso Cucinotta is an expert in real-time
systems from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, University of Pisa, Italy, which is a world-leading centre in real-time systems
research. Prof. Cucinotta is known for his research into security and smart-card based authentication, adaptive deadline-based scheduling, and novel OS designs for massively parallel and distributed systems.
Prof. Cucinotta joined MDU as a Guest Professor in 2024 within the ECE research direction. At MDU, he collaborates on real-time scheduling for embedded systems and virtualised applications, including Phd-student supervision, contributes to the ARRAY Industrial Phd school and MARC research profile.
His efforts strengthen MDU’s international position, foster collaborations with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and support Swedish industry through impactful research and education initiatives.