Erik Elmroth
Scholar

Erik Elmroth

Google Scholar ID: 1V16cckAAAAJ
Professor, Umeå University and Co-Founder, Elastisys AB
Cloud controlCloud managementAutonomic computingCloud computingDistributed computing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,327
 
H-index
29
 
i10-index
91
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
187
list available
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
  • Founded the distributed systems research at Umeå University
  • Member of the Executive Committee and four management groups of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP, 6.2 billion SEK), coordinating Umeå University’s involvement
  • Original Principal Investigator and member of the program management group for the eSSENCE Strategic Research Program (funded 390 million SEK)
  • Principal Investigator for three Kempe Foundations projects, funding 25 postdocs in AI, autonomous systems, and software
  • Participated in major national and EU projects including RESERVOIR, OPTIMIS, VISION Cloud, CACTOS, ORBIT, RECAP, ACTiCLOUD, FogGuru, COGNIT, ACROSS, and AAPELE
  • Principal Investigator of Cloud Control—the second-largest project ever funded by the Swedish Research Council—applying control theory to autonomous cloud datacenter management
  • Former Chair of the Board of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)
  • Former Chair of the Swedish Research Council’s (VR) expert group on e-science infrastructures and member of VR’s Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI)
  • Appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers to develop Nordic and Nordic-Baltic eScience strategies; commissioned by SNIC to produce a national HPC strategy
  • Served a three-year term as National HPC Lecturer appointed by the Swedish Council for High Performance Computing (HPDR)
  • Former Vice Chair of the Division on Information Technology at the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences; currently a lifetime member