Fredrik Heintz
Lab Leader

Fredrik Heintz

Professor
Linköping University · AIICS · ReAL Lab
Trustworthy AIAutonomous SystemsAI PolicyAI Education

About

Fredrik Heintz is Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University and founder and leader of the Reasoning and Learning (ReAL) Lab. He serves as Head of the AIICS Division, Director of WASP's Graduate School, Program Director of WASP-ED, Coordinator of the EU TAILOR network and TrustLLM project, and Director of LiU's AI initiative. He is one of Sweden's most prominent voices on AI in media.

Publications 61

2026
Journal
Two peas in two pods? Comparing Sweden and Singapore’s lifelong learning policy and practice response to AI skills demands
Hugo-Henrik Hachem, Tanya Osborne, Sahara Sadik, Mattias Wiggberg, Wei Li Fu, Yong Qing Ho, et al.
Journal of Adult and Continuing Education
Journal
Scaling transformers for time series forecasting: do pretrained large models outperform small-scale alternatives?
Sanjay Chakraborty, Ibrahim Delibasoglu, Fredrik Heintz
Artificial Intelligence Review 59:62
Chapter
SRIDA
Fredrik Heintz, Katerina Linden
Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics, Curry, E., et al. (eds.), pp. 29-49, Springer Nature, Switzerland
Journal
LCMS-Net: Deep Learning for Raw High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data Applied to Forensic Cause-of-Death Screening
Lisa Maria Menacher, Liam Ward, Fredrik Heintz, Henrik Green, Oleg Sysoev
Analytical Chemistry 98:6589-6597
Journal
How Do Swedish Primary Teachers Introduce Programming in Their Classrooms, and What Strategies Are Used?
Anna Åkerfeldt, Linda Mannila, Susanne Kjällander, Fredrik Heintz
ACM Transactions on Computing Education 26:1
Journal
A survey of AI-supported materials informatics
Sanjay Chakraborty, Jonas Björk, Martin Dahlqvist, Johanna Rosén, Fredrik Heintz
Computer Science Review 59:100845
2025
Journal
TransFusion: Generating long, high fidelity time series using diffusion models with transformers
Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandran Pillai, Fredrik Heintz
Machine Learning with Applications 20:100652
Conference
Promoting Intersectional Fairness through Knowledge Distillation
Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz
, Inês Lynce, Nello Murano, Mauro Vallati, Serena Villata, Federico Chesani, Michela Milano, Andrea Omicini, Mehdi Dastani (eds.), pp. 3427-3434, IOS Press
Journal
Perspectives on AI literacy in Middle School Classrooms
Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden, Linda Mannila, Jonas Hallström, Charlotta Nordlöf, Fredrik Heintz
Postdigital Science and Education 7:719-749
Conference
Framing AI Literacy for K-12 Education
Linda Mannila, Jonas Hallström, Charlotta Nordlöf, Fredrik Heintz, Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden
ACE ‘25: Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Computing Education Conference, pp. 85-94, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Journal
FairXAI -A Taxonomy and Framework for Fairness and Explainability Synergy in Machine Learning
Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Fredrik Heintz
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
2024
Journal
Where is the reflexive ‘I’ in the Elements of AI?
Hugo-Henrik Hachem, Fredrik Heintz
International Journal of Lifelong Education 43:664-681
Journal
Towards evidence-based practice 2.0: leveraging artificial intelligence in healthcare
Per Nilsen, David Sundemo, Fredrik Heintz, Margit Neher, Jens Nygren, Petra Svedberg, et al.
Frontiers in Health Services 4:1368030
Journal
In search of artificial intelligence (AI) literacy in teacher education: A scoping review
Katarina Sperling, Carl-Johan Stenberg, Cormac McGrath, Anna Åkerfeldt, Fredrik Heintz, Linnéa Stenliden
COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION OPEN 6:100169
Journal
Grounding Stream Reasoning Research
Pieter Bonte, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Daniel de Leng, Daniele Dell’Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Thomas Eiter, et al.
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK) 2:2
Conference
FairX
Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI, co-located with 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), Roberta Calegari,Virginia Dignum, Barry O’Sullivan (eds.), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR
Other
Exploratory Visual Analysis for Increasing Data Readiness in Artificial Intelligence Projects
Mattias Tiger, Daniel Jakobsson, Anders Ynnerman, Fredrik Heintz, Daniel Jönsson
Conference
Enhancing Safety via Deep Reinforcement Learning in Trajectory Planning for Agile Flights in Unknown Environments
Lidia Rocha, Jorge Bidinotto, Fredrik Heintz, Mattias Tiger, Kelen Vivaldini
2024 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS, IROS 2024, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3076-3083, IEEE
Journal
Chasing artificial intelligence in shared socioeconomic pathways
Henrik Carlsen, Björn Nykvist, Somya Joshi, Fredrik Heintz
One Earth 7:18-22
Journal
Bt-GAN: Generating Fair Synthetic Healthdata via Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks
Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Md Fahim Sikder, David Bergström, Fredrik Heintz
The journal of artificial intelligence research 79:1313-1341
Conference
Autonomous 3D Exploration in Large-Scale Environments with Dynamic Obstacles
Emil Wiman, Ludvig Widén, Mattias Tiger, Fredrik Heintz
2023
Journal
Three Levels of AI Transparency
Kashyap Haresamudram, Stefan Larsson, Fredrik Heintz
Computer 56:93-100
Conference
On-Demand Multi-Agent Basket Picking for Shopping Stores
Mattias Tiger, David Bergström, Simon Wijk Stranius, Evelina Holmgren, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5793-5799, IEEE
Conference
Model-Based Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Utility Functions
Johan Källström, Fredrik Heintz
Proceedings of the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop (ALA) at AAMAS 2023, pp. 1-9
Conference
Model-Based Actor-Critic for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Utility Functions
Johan Källström, Fredrik Heintz
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 2818-2820, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Conference
Mapping AI Literacy in Teacher Education
Katarina Sperling, Cormac McGrath, Linnéa Stenliden, Anna Åkerfeldt, Fredrik Heintz
2nd International Symposium on Digital Transformation
Chapter
Introducing programming and computational thinking in grades 1–9
Linda Mannila, Fredrik Heintz
Programming and computational thinking in technology education, Jonas Hallström, Marc J. de Vries (eds.), pp. 60-88, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden
Journal
Hierarchical goals contextualize local reward decomposition explanations
Finn Rietz, Sven Magg, Fredrik Heintz, Todor Stoyanov, Stefan Wermter, Johannes A. Stork
Neural Computing & Applications 35:16693-16704
Chapter
Four facets of AI transperency
Stefan Larsson, Kashyap Haresamudram, Charlotte Högberg, Yucong Lao, Axel Nyström, Kasia Söderlund, et al.
Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence, Simon Lindgren (ed.), pp. 445-455, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham
Conference
Fair Latent Deep Generative Models (FLDGMs) for Syntax-Agnostic and Fair Synthetic Data Generation
Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Md Fahim Sikder, Fredrik Heintz
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Journal
Behind the Scenes of Co-designing AI and LA in K-12 Education
Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden, Jörgen Nissen, Fredrik Heintz
Postdigital Science and Education 6:321-341
Conference
A Brief Guide to Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning and Planning
Conor F. Hayes, Roxana Rădulescu, Eugenio Bargiacchi, Johan Källström, Matthew Macfarlane, Mathieu Reymond, et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), A. Ricci, W. Yeoh, N. Agmon, B. An (eds.), pp. 1988-1990
2022
Chapter
The computational thinking and artificial intelligence duality
Fredrik Heintz
COMPUTATIONAL THINKING EDUCATION IN K-12, Kong, SC; Abelson, H (eds.), pp. 143-151, MIT PRESS
Journal
Still w(AI)ting for the automation of teaching: An exploration of machine learning in Swedish primary education using Actor-Network Theory
Katarina Sperling, Linnéa Stenliden, Jörgen Nissen, Fredrik Heintz
European Journal of Education 57:584-600
Conference
Signs of learning in middle school computing education
Susanne Kjällander, Anna Åkerfeldt, Linda Mannila, Fredrik Heintz
, 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Journal
Scalar reward is not enough
Peter Vamplew, Benjamin J. Smith, Johan Källström, Gabriel Ramos, Roxana Rădulescu, Diederik M. Roijers, et al.
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 36:41
Journal
Partnership on AI, Data, and Robotics
Edward Curry, Fredrik Heintz, Morten Irgens, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Stefano Stramigioli
Communications of the ACM 65:54-55
Conference
Exploring programming didactics in primary school - a gender perspective
Anna Åkerfeldt, Susanne Kjällander, Linda Mannila, Fredrik Heintz
2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Conference
Exploring Gender Differences in Primary School Programming
Linda Mannila, Anna Åkerfeldt, Susanne Kjällander, Fredrik Heintz
2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Journal
Design of simulation-based pilot training systems using machine learning agents
Johan Källström, R. Granlund, Fredrik Heintz
Aeronautical Journal 126:PII S0001924022000082
Conference
Coverage Path Planning in Large-scale Multi-floor Urban Environments with Applications to Autonomous Road Sweeping
Daniel Engelsons, Mattias Tiger, Fredrik Heintz
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3328-3334, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Journal
A practical guide to multi-objective reinforcement learning and planning
Conor F. Hayes, Roxana Rădulescu, Eugenio Bargiacchi, Johan Källström, Matthew Macfarlane, Mathieu Reymond, et al.
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 36:26
2021
Conference
Towards Verification and Validation of Reinforcement Learning in Safety-Critical Systems
Erik Nikko, Zoran Sjanic, Fredrik Heintz
Robust and Reliable Autonomy in the Wild
Journal
Three Interviews About K-12 AI Education in America, Europe, and Singapore
Fredrik Heintz
Künstliche Intelligenz 35:233-237
Other
Scalar reward is not enough: A response to Silver, Singh, Precup and Sutton
Peter Vamplew, Benjamin J. Smith, Johan Källström, Gabriel Ramos, Roxana Radulescu, Diederik M. Roijers, et al.
Conference
Hybrid Dynamic Programming for Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment
Fredrik Präntare, Fredrik Heintz
PRIMA 2020: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, Uchiya, Takahiro, Bai, Quan, Marsa-Maestre, Ivan (eds.), Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, pp. 19-33, Springer
Journal
Enhancing Lattice-Based Motion Planning With Introspective Learning and Reasoning
Mattias Tiger, David Bergström, Andreas Norrstig, Fredrik Heintz
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6:4385-4392
Journal
Elementary Students First Approach to Computational Thinking and Programming
Susanne Kjällander, Linda Mannila, Anna Åkerfeldt, Fredrik Heintz
Education Sciences 11:80
Journal
Education in Artificial Intelligence K-12
Gerald Steinbauer, Martin Kandlhofer, Tara Chklovski, Fredrik Heintz, Sven Koenig
Künstliche Intelligenz 35:127-129
Conference
Anytime Heuristic and Monte Carlo Methods for Large-Scale Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment
Fredrik Präntare, Herman Appelgren, Fredrik Heintz
THIRTY-FIFTH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THIRTY-THIRD CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE ELEVENTH SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 11317-11324, ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Other
Achieving a Data-driven Risk Assessment Methodology for Ethical AI
Anna Felländer, Jonathan Rebane, Stefan Larsson, Mattias Wiggberg, Fredrik Heintz
Journal
A Differentiated Discussion About AI Education K-12
Gerald Steinbauer, Martin Kandlhofer, Tara Chklovski, Fredrik Heintz, Sven Koenig
Künstliche Intelligenz 35:131-137
2020
Conference
Towards Utilitarian Combinatorial Assignment with Deep Neural Networks and Heuristic Algorithms
Fredrik Präntare, Mattias Tiger, David Bergström, Herman Appelgren, Fredrik Heintz
Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and Reasoning, Fredrik Heintz, Michela Milano, Barry O’Sullivan (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 104-111, Springer, Cham, Germany
Conference
Spatio-Temporal Learning, Reasoning and Decision-Making with Robot Safety Applications
Mattias Tiger, Fredrik Heintz
Proceedings of the 32nd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS 2020), Fredrik Johansson (ed.), Göteborg
Conference
Programming in primary education: Towards a research based assessment framework
Linda Mannila, Fredrik Heintz, Susanne Kjällander, Anna+ Åkerfeldt
WiPSCE 20: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Primary and Secondary Computing Education, ACM Digital Library
Conference
Learning Agents for Improved Efficiency and Effectiveness in Simulation-Based Training
Johan Källström, Fredrik Heintz
Poceedings of the 32nd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS), pp. 1-2
Journal
Incremental Reasoning in Probabilistic Signal Temporal Logic
Mattias Tiger, Fredrik Heintz
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 119:j.ijar.2020.01.009
Chapter
Commentary on AI in the EU
Fredrik Heintz
Human-centred AI in the EU, Stefan Larsson, Claire Ingram Bogusz and Jonas Andersson Schwarz (eds.), pp. 1-12, European Liberal Forum (ELF)
Journal
An anytime algorithm for optimal simultaneous coalition structure generation and assignment
Fredrik Präntare, Fredrik Heintz
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 34:29
Conference
Agent Coordination in Air Combat Simulation using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Johan Källström, Fredrik Heintz
2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 2157-2164, IEEE conference proceedings
Conference
2nd International Workshop on Education in Artificial Intelligence K-12 (EduAI)
Gerald Steinbauer, Sven Koenig, Fredrik Heintz, Julie Henry, Tara Chklovski, Martin Kandlhofer
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION (AIED 2020), PT II, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 427-429, SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
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