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Biography  [ Show only research interests ]

Jakob Axelsson received an M.Sc. from LinkÖping University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in 1997 for a thesis on hardware/software codesign of real-time systems. He has been working at ABB Corporate Research and ABB Power Generation (now Alstom) in Baden, Switzerland, Volvo Technological Development (now Volvo Technology), Carlstedt Research & Technology, and Volvo Car Corporation, all in Göteborg, Sweden. He is currently with the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) in Stockholm, where he is director of software and systems engineering research. He is also professor in software and systems engineering at Mälardalen University in Västerås, where he is leading the research group Business-oriented Engineering of Software-Intensive Systems (BESS).

Jakob Axelssons research is mainly in the area of complex technical systems, with focus on methods and tools to handle the early phases of product development. In particular, embedded systems and automotive applications are studied, but other products are also of interest.

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Research projects

On-going:

Finished:
• Business Oriented Concept Development of Electronic System Architecture and Platforms in Vehicles
• Methods for development of E/E-systemarchitectures in early phases

Supervised Ph D students

• Göran Bertheau  (assistant supervisor)
• Sara Dersten
• Håkan Gustavsson
• David Rylander
• Peter Wallin

• Porting AUTOSAR to a high performance embedded system