| TECoSA Newsletter provides you with updates on the latest publications and events.
| Welcome to the TECoSA newsletter!"The TECoSA centre underwent a thorough half-time evaluation in 2024, which
concluded that the centre “has evolved into a knowledge ecosystem, fostering
extensive collaboration and increasingly catalysing industrial innovations.”
The evaluators also highlighted “a very high, or even outstanding, scientific
performance” and noted that TECoSA is producing “knowledge
that is very important and strategic for its partners. The comprehensive
approach is quite unique and useful for the companies.”
As we embark on five more years (beginning in 2025), we also recognize that
renewal requires re-energising the consortium. We are therefore very pleased to
report that this new energy is clearly emerging within TECoSA through the
addition of four new partners (Airolit, 3DI, Scaleout and Traton) and several
new postdocs — all bringing fresh perspectives, ideas and momentum to the
collaboration.
TECoSA now includes 19 partners in total: KTH, 10 SMEs, and 8 large
organisations.
We extend our warmest welcome to all new partners and postdocs, and we look
forward to fruitful collaborations ahead!"
Martin Törngren
TECoSA director
| In this edition- New TECoSA partners
- New TECoSa postdocs
- Succesful PhD defense
- Latest TECoSa meetings and seminar series
- Follow us on LinkedIN
| Four New Partners Join TECoSAStrengthening Sweden’s Edge Computing Ecosystem
TECoSA,
the research center hosted at KTH dedicated to trustworthy edge computing
systems and applications, is expanding once again. Four new partners, TRATON, 3D Interactive, Airolit and Scaleout, have now
joined the consortium, bringing the total number of industrial and
public-sector collaborators to nearly 20.
The
addition of these new partners further reinforces TECoSA’s role as a leading
hub for research and innovation in edge intelligence, secure distributed
systems, and next-generation cyber-physical infrastructures. With stronger
cross-sector collaboration, the center can accelerate its mission to develop
cutting-edge solutions that enable safer, more efficient, and more autonomous
systems across society.
“Having
more partners on board gives us broader perspectives, new use cases, and more
opportunities to translate research into real-world impact,” says the TECoSA
leadership team. “We are excited to welcome our new colleagues and look forward
to deepening our collaborative efforts.”
| The new partners TRATON, 3D Interactive, Airolit and Scaleout will participate in joint research projects, doctoral studies, testbeds, and TECoSA’s industrial-academic exchange programs. Their involvement helps strengthen Sweden’s position in the global edge computing landscape, while ensuring that TECoSA continues to serve as a bridge between research excellence and industrial relevance. Read more about TECoSA partners. | TECoSA welcomes new Postdocs!
| Four new postdoctoral researchers will join TECoSA. The new postdocs have expertise within trustworthy edge computing, distributed AI, dependable
cyber-physical systems, and human–machine interaction. Together, they will
contribute to TECoSA’s ongoing research projects, strengthen collaboration with
our industrial partners, and help advance the center’s mission to enable safe,
secure, and predictable edge-computing systems.
We look
forward to their contributions and to the new research directions their work
will inspire within the TECoSA community. The newcomers will be presented shortly!
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We are proud to announce that Muhammad Rusyadi Ramli successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 6 NovemberMuhammad's research explores how reference architectures can act as “boundary
objects” to support co-engineering in the development of trustworthy
cyber-physical systems. As modern CPS integrate AI, interact
closely with human users, and involve diverse teams of experts, aligning
perspectives across disciplinary and organizational boundaries becomes a major
challenge. Ramli’s work demonstrates how well-designed architectural frameworks
can help bridge these gaps by supporting communication, negotiation, and shared
understanding—ultimately strengthening the trustworthiness of complex CPS. The doctoral thesis (if prompted, approve and you will be directed to the portal)
Congratulations to Muhammad on this significant achievement and thank you for your valuable contributions to the TECoSA research community!
| Latest TECoSA meetings and seminar series | Consortium Gathering
15 October, TECoSA held its 19th consortium meeting since the start in 2020. Hosted by Ericsson Research in Kista, the gathering brought together around 50 participants from academia and industry to exchange insights and explore future directions in trustworthy edge computing systems and applications. The meeting featured dynamic contributions from new partners — including Airolit (drone-based solutions), 3D Interactive (XR technologies), and Scaleout (federated learning) — as well as presentations from three new postdocs: Marcus Nolte (trustworthiness assurance), Merle Reiman (edge AI), and Diletta Olliaro (industrial edge). Live demonstrations of future cyber-physical systems and their interaction with smart infrastructure were held at the Ericsson Studio.
| | | TODAY at 15 o'clock!
Seminar "Roadmap and Industry Action plan for Future Manufacturing". Details and link. Professor Haydn Thompson, BSc, PhD, will give an overview of the work performed in MASTT2040 and introduce the Roadmap and Industry Action Plan for Manufacturing-as-a-Service supporting the twin transition up to 2040. The seminar highlights that Manufacturing-as-a-Service business models offer advantages with respect to resilience of supply chains and that circular manufacturing approaches offer a means of addressing critical raw materials shortages which fits well with respect to the next framework programme’s Competitiveness Compass and EC Defense goals. Professor Haydn Thompson is recognised and used by the European Commission as an expert. He is a consultant to a range of companies and government bodies.
| | | Internal Research Seminar Series Restarted
| 27 November, TECoSA successfully restarted its
internal research seminar series. The first seminar in the
renewed series was “Gaming on the edge: a performance framework
towards edge-AI”, presented by Diletta Olliaro (KTH).
The session sparked valuable discussions around performance challenges and
opportunities as AI increasingly moves toward the edge.
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