Santa Anna IT Research Institute was first founded in 1999 through the The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen) establishment and by an initiative from Sture Hägglund at Dept of Computer Science at Linköping University. It was later transformed into SICS and finally into RISE in 2018.
In the belief that Swedish Research can benefit even more from a small, flexible,
non-governmental, non bound, non profit and closely working institute partner,
Santa Anna is a modern institute ready to work for a sustainable future!
Santa Anna provides applied IT research within strategic areas tied to the rapid and
accelerating AI development, attracting the best of competences available.
The NGO association OSMC (Open Source Modelica Consortium) is the owner of Santa Anna, and Prof. Peter Fritzson, vice director of OSMC, took initiative to the new institute.
CEO, Board and Director
Between Board meetings and Annual Meetings, the CEO is Santa Anna’s main point of contact. The CEO is responsible for the day-by-day work of Santa Anna between Board meetings and Annual Meetings, but also has the right to delegate appropriate parts the work to co-workers.
- CEO: Niclas Fock
- Chairman & Vice CEO: Peter Fritzson
- Board member: Johan Ölvander, Dean at Linköping University
- Board member: Ulf Nilsson, former Dean at Linköping University
Gender Equality Plan
Santa Anna is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity in respect of religious belief, political opinion, race, disability, age, sex, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, married or civil partnership and gender reassignment. To this end, Santa Anna has developed and committed to a Gender Equality Plan, available here.
Santa Anna currently has 5 areas in which we focus our efforts:
Healthcare, Simulation, Forensics, AI for Research & Ethics and Training.