CEO
RISE SICS
Module 2 Inauguration party in the ICE facility
PHOTO CREDIT : PÄR BÄCKSTRÖM
Tor Bjorn Minde
CEO
Tor Björn Minde is currently head of research strategy at Ericsson Research with 30 years ’ experience in ICT research . He has research management experience leading industry research teams , sections and sector research areas . He holds an adjunct professorship at Lulea University of Technology in systems technology and has been involved in many academic research projects . He is part of LTU technology faculty board and also a board member of Norrbotten research council .
His main research interests are audio , geo , sensor , context aware , machine learning and data center technologies . He led the team behind Ericsson Labs with the objective to improve Ericsson ability in open innovation and network exposure . Ericsson Labs operated a server infrastructure with network functionality offering on-line experimental API ' s , Application Programming Interfaces .
Lately his main focus has been on cloud infrastructures for energy efficient operation . He has around 20 publications in various conferences and workshops and more than 40 filed patents in the field of signal processing and applications since 1989 .
Tor Björn is currently CEO of RISE SICS North AB and working as the manager for the large-scale research infrastructure facility build-up project . He will lead the initiative and implement the vision of a large-scale data center facility to support Swedish industry and academia .