Welcome to the TECoSA #22 Spring Newsletter

TECoSA newsletter highlights recent research initiatives, seminars and noteworthy achievements within our community. Our aim is to provide a concise overview of current work, foster intellectual exchange, and keep you informed about emerging topics and events.

Martin Törngren
TECoSA director

In this edition

1. TECoSA Board meeting
2. New TECoSA postdocs
3. Succesful PhD defense
4. TECoSA Quarterly meeting
5. TECoSa seminar series
6. New enterprise partner
7. Follow us on LinkedIN

TECoSA Board meeting held in March

On March 25, the TECoSA Board convened for its latest meeting. The board welcomed several new representatives from existing partners, following the introduction of a simplified procedure for board member changes.

During the meeting, the board decided on a refined process for handling agile projects* and approved funding for two new initiatives: DISCO and E-MAP. The board also welcomed a new partner, FleetMQ, to the TECoSA community.

The meeting reflects TECoSA’s continued growth and ongoing efforts to streamline collaboration and support innovative research projects.

*Agile projects are short, collaborative research efforts that enable rapid exploration of new ideas and emerging challenges. With a flexible and iterative approach, they help accelerate innovation and strengthen collaboration between partners.

More postdocs joining TECoSA

Two new postdocs have joined us since the beginning of 2026 and one more is planned to start during the summer. 

That brings the total number of newly recruited postdocs in this second phase of TECoSA to seven. 

All seven postdocs will be introduced on TECoSA website. Stay tuned for the one by one interviews.

Successful PhD Defences

January 16, 2026 - Vishnu Moothedath 

Vishnu Moothedath succesfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Towards Efficient Distributed Intelligence: Cost-Aware Sensing and Offloading for Inference at the Edge.” 

The defence marked an important contribution to research on distributed intelligence in the context of AI-driven systems and future wireless networks. Moothedath's thesis addresses fundamental challenges arising from the increasing deployment of intelligent systems operating under strict latency and energy constraints. His research investigates how decisions about when to sense the environment and when to offload computation can be optimised using cost-aware and semantics-driven approaches.

Link to the thesis: “Towards Efficient Distributed Intelligence: Cost-Aware Sensing and Offloading for Inference at the Edge.” 

February 6, 2026 - Ahmat Terra

Ahmad Terra successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Telecommunications.”

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key driver of technological development in many industrial sectors. It is being embedded into many components of telecommunications networks to optimize their functionality in various ways. AI technologies are advancing rapidly, with increasingly sophisticated techniques being introduced. Therefore, understanding how an AI model operates and arrives at its output is crucial to ensure the integrity of the overall system. One way to achieve this is by applying Explainable  Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques to generate information about the operation of an AI model.

This thesis develops and evaluates XAI techniques to improve the transparency of AI models. We took the opportunity to interview Ahmad and let him explain his research and what it contributes to.

Link to the thesis  “Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Telecommunications.”

TECoSA Quarterly meeting hosted by Traton/Scania

On March 26, TECoSA held its 20th quarterly meeting, bringing together around 50 researchers and industrial partners. The meeting was kindly hosted by TRATON/Scania in Södertälje.

The morning session included updates from the Center Director, research leaders, introductions of new members and researchers, and interactive workshops focusing on future directions of the center.

After a well-appreciated lunch provided by Scania, participants were invited to test drive a range of Scania’s trucks and buses, including both diesel and electric vehicles—an engaging and insightful experience.

TECoSA warmly thanks TRATON /Scania for hosting an excellent meeting.

TECoSA seminar series

Next TECoSA seminar - on April 9

The seminar – The Road to Trustworthy ML: From Security and Privacy to Verifiability takes place online on April 9 at 15 o'clock.

• In this talk Buse Atli, Assistant Professor in the Cybersecurity Division at Linköping University, will present the evolving landscape of security and privacy in machine learning (ML), drawing on insights from her own research and experiences in both academic work and real-world applications. Seminar details
  
  

• On March 5, Stella Riad, Head of the Industrial Systems Department at RISE held an online talk. Presentation from the seminar is available here.
  
  
• All TECoSA seminars can be found on our website - TECoSA Seminar Series.

New enterprise partner - FleetMQ

Swedish deep tech company FleetMQ joins us as an enterprise partner

FleetMQ provides intelligent middleware and communication infrastructure for autonomous and moving machines. 

Founded by KTH researchers and former Google engineers with firsthand experience building autonomous systems in real-world environments, the company was spun-out to fill a clear gap: traditional middleware simply was not built for mobility, unstable networks, and the operational demands of machines in the field. 

FleetMQ joins TECoSA to engage with the research community tackling these exact challenges, and to help shape the architectures underlying reliable, real-time communication for connected vehicles and distributed machines at scale.