PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Fredrik Gustafsson

Fredrik Gustafsson is a professor in Sensor Informatics at Linköping University whose research includes stochastic signal processing, adaptive filtering and wildlife applications. He earned an M.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1988 and a Ph.D. in automatic control in 1992 at Linköping University, held automatic-control posts from 1992 to 1999, and became professor of Communication Systems in 1999. His 2002 particle-filter paper addressed positioning, navigation and tracking; his 2024 camera-trap study used machine learning to track animal classes, and his 2025 work applied open-set recognition to wildlife images. His awards include the 2004 Arnberg Prize, election to the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2007 and IEEE Fellow status in 2011; he held a Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professorship from 2015 to 2024. He co-founded Nira Dynamics, Senion and Softube, and joined the Research2Business steering group in 2023.

Born
1964
Works
680
Citations
20,958
h-index
66
Badges

Years link to their sources. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1988–1999

    Degrees and early appointments

    In 1988, he earns an M.Sc. in electrical engineering, and in 1992 he completes a Ph.D. in automatic control, both at Linköping University. From 1992 to 1999, he holds positions in automatic control before becoming professor of Communication Systems at Linköping University in 1999.

  2. 2002

    Particle filters for navigation

    In 2002, he coauthors “Particle filters for positioning, navigation and tracking” through Linköping University's ISIS Sensor Fusion project. The Division of Automatic Control and Communication Systems carries out the project, which focuses on target tracking, navigation and positioning.

  3. 2004–2011

    Prizes and academy honors

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Science awards him the Arnberg Prize in 2004. The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences elects him as a member in 2007, and he becomes an IEEE Fellow in 2011 for contributions to theory and applications of statistical signal processing.

  4. 2015–2024

    A distinguished professorship

    From 2015 to 2024, he holds a Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professorship.

  5. 2023

    Companies and steering group

    In 2023, he joins the Research2Business steering group. He is a co-founder of the research-based companies Nira Dynamics, which develops car tire-pressure measurement; Senion, which develops indoor navigation for mobile phones; and Softube, which develops music-production technology.

  6. 2024

    Machine-learning animal tracking

    In 2024, he coauthors a paper that uses object-detection outputs in a filtering method to track animals and their classes across images. The study tests the method on camera-trap images of bears, lynxes, wolves and wolverines, and reports more robust classification.

  7. 2025

    Wildlife open-set recognition

    In 2025, he coauthors a paper on wildlife open-set recognition, which aims to classify known classes while rejecting unknown samples. It compares a nearest-class-mean distribution with softmax probabilities from model logits to measure agreement.

  8. Since 2005

    Professor in Sensor Informatics

    He is professor in Sensor Informatics in Linköping University's Department of Electrical Engineering, a post he has held since 2005. His research interests include stochastic signal processing, adaptive filtering and change detection, with applications that include wildlife.

Career

  1. Since 1992Linköping UniversityProfessor of Communication Systems, Professor of Sensor Informatics
  2. From 2023Research2Business steering groupSteering group member
  3. 2020–2023Uppsala University
  4. Nira DynamicsCo-founder
  5. SenionCo-founder
  6. SoftubeCo-founder

Education

  1. 1992Linköping UniversityPh.D. in automatic control
  2. 1988Linköping UniversityM.Sc. in electrical engineering

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Linköping University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Linköping University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. 5 of the 25 people with the most-cited recent papers also lead on career citationsIncludes Linköping University. We compare citations to 2023–2025 papers with career citations and h-index, after correcting reviewed publication-date errors: who leads, when they started and where they work.
  4. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Linköping University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Fredrik Gustafsson - Linköping University liu.se. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. ISIS project: Sensor Fusion control.isy.liu.se. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Fredrik Gustafsson | IEEE AESS ieee-aess.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. 53 SPS Members Elevated to IEEE Fellow | IEEE Signal Processing Society signalprocessingsociety.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Fredrik Gustafsson: IVAs 100-lista har unik plats i innovationssystemet iva.se. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Publication list staff.gitlab-pages.liu.se. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. [2310.08316] Extended target tracking utilizing machine-learning software -- with applications to animal classification arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. [2510.17338] Nearest-Class Mean and Logits Agreement for Wildlife Open-Set Recognition arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.