NEWS She is the co-founder of three media technology companies, has been recognised as one of Sweden's most innovative entrepreneurs, and has recently been appointed professor of Computing Science at Umeå University. Johanna Björklund is now featured as Språkbanken’s Profile of the Month.
Her research lies at the intersection of formal languages, machine learning and semantics. Professor Johanna Björklund is now focusing on finding new and improved ways to evaluate generative AI.
Image_Foto Peter Karlsson SvarteldJohanna Björklund, professor of Computing Science at Umeå University, specialises in semantic analysis of multimodal data – advanced computational systems capable of interpreting and generating combined media such as text, images and forms. She is co‑founder of the media technology companies Codemill, Aeterna Labs and DeepTensor, and is head of WARA Media and Language, a research arena within WASP, the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Programme.
Johanna Björklund is now being recognised by Språkbanken, a national research infrastructure jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council and 10 universities and government agencies. Read more about her research and plans for the future on Språkbanken’s website, where she is currently featured as Profile of the Month.
For additional details, please contact Professor Johanna Björklund at the Department of Computer Science.
