Digital transformation is an essential prerequisite for the development of critical systems and infrastructures across many sectors. New digital technologies enable advanced and cross-disciplinary solutions, while at the same time increasing complexity. This creates a need for holistic thinking, where technologies, data and systems interact across disciplines.

At the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, we are already actively engaged in a range of digitalisation initiatives, including digital twins, edge intelligence as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Digital X is a strategic initiative through which we organise and consolidate competences across the department with the aim of identifying new digital opportunities. It therefore serves as an overarching framework that sets the direction for the department’s digital efforts. This provides a basis for coordinating and developing activities within areas such as Digital Water, Digital Energy, Digital Health, Digital Space, Digital Defence, Digital Brain and applied quantum computing.

With Digital X as a central point of reference, we collaborate broadly with external partners, research environments, public actors, authorities and other societally relevant stakeholders. Particularly within critical infrastructure, the cross-disciplinary approach strengthens collaboration between disciplines and digital domains and supports the development and application of digital technologies in complex systems for the benefit of society and industry.