Get a short introduction to the research at DTU Compute at the Technical University of Denmark
Over the next two weeks, DTU Compute – the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science – at the Technical University of Denmark will publish stories from our department. These will mainly be about artificial intelligence, but we also have your back if you’re looking for mathematics and the combination. We hope our stories will inspire you, and feel free to contact us.
Firstly, we would like to give you a short introduction.
DTU Compute is a unique and internationally leading research environment in digital technologies, spanning the scientific disciplines of mathematics, data science, computer science, data engineering, and computer engineering. We work with various areas, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), AI chips, blockchain, cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, social networks, fairness, and data ethics.
Our 10 research sections use these technologies in fields such as health – physical and mental, green transition, and smart cities and offer a high level of both theoretical and methodological basic research. We take problems and challenges from other disciplines and lift them into a virtual world where we can make models, calculations, and simulations. The results of this work enable us to pass on new ideas to innovative products for the benefit of businesses and public institutions, on a national level as well as international.
DTU Compute has been one of the driving forces behind DIREC – Digital Research Centre Denmark, which brings together all eight universities. Additionally, DTU Compute plays a central role in two elite initiatives: the Pioneer Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Danish Data Science Academy. We also participate and lead several major international projects.
Simultaneously, DTU Compute places significant emphasis on applying our research results and insights to promote understanding and use of digital technologies in business and the public sector, benefiting society. To prepare our community to comprehend, embrace, and leverage the digital transformation, it is essential to enhance digital competencies across society. DTU Compute takes strong responsibility, in collaboration with partners across sectors, to ensure that people have the opportunity to engage in open dialogues about our digital future.
Education
Mathematics is a cornerstone, whether you’re studying to become a civil engineer, focusing on biotechnology, or aiming to work with artificial intelligence. At the DTU Compute, we teach all DTU bachelor students fundamental mathematics. Additionally, we train many engineers who become specialists in our specific areas.
DTU Compute is offering nine educational tracks.
Bachelor Of Science
- Artificial Intelligence and Data
- Mathematics and Technology
- Software Technology
- Computer Engineering
Bachelor Of Engineering
- Software Technology
- Computer Engineering
Master Of Science
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Mathematical Modelling and Computation
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Through various offers for high schools, we try to increase young people’s interest in IT education. Among other things, we hold a free IT Camp for girls.
We want our IT engineering education to be the best in Europe and attract the best-qualified students so that together we create knowledge, innovation, and startups with the overall theme of technology to support society.
Numbers
Our staff (2022 numbers) counts
- 406 people in total
- of which 180 are researchers
- and 162 are PhD students – the engines of our research.
- Around 16,000 students attend our BSc and MSc levels.
- And hundreds join our continuing education programme for professionals and businesses.
Diversity
At DTU Compute, it is a natural part of our everyday life to ensure a safe and supportive working environment for everyone there. We believe that innovation, creativity, and job satisfaction are strengthened by diversity; cultural, professional, gender-related, and more.
For several years, we have had a special focus on diversity in particular and, among other things, regularly hold ‘Diversity Talks’ with presenters who talks about their research and initiative concerning diversity within the research world, including the cultural meeting at an international workplace such as DTU.
Since the autumn of 2023, together with other Danish research environments, we have worked to develop a living lab that will come up with concrete ideas for how diversity can be further strengthened. The living lab at DTU Compute focuses on strengthening the number of women at the institute and our courses and looking at how we can improve the framework for foreign students and researchers.
To emphasize the importance of working with diversity, DTU Compute has just appointed a Head of Diversity.