Finn Lindgren, CV

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Personal information

• Name: Finn Lindgren
• Year of birth: 1973
• E-mail: finn@maths.lth.se, PGPKey
• Current employment: Temporary position as Lecturer in Mathematical statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University.

Degrees

• 1992: "Studentexamen" from "Naturvetenskapliga programmet", Katedralskolan, Lund, Sweden.
• 1992-1997: Master of Science degree in Mathematical statistics at Lund University, Sweden.
  Courses in Mathematics, Mathematical statistics, Physics, Computer science, and Numerical analysis.
• 1996-2003: Doctor of philosophy in engineering, Mathematical statistics, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Education & employment

• 1992-1997: Master of Science degree in Mathematical Statistics at Lund University, Sweden. Master's thesis, see [1].
• 1992-1994, summers: Designed and implemented a computer control program for a circuit board mill, and a TFTP server, at Astra Draco, Lund.
• 1996-2003: "Doktorandtjänst" with post-graduate studies at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (MC), Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. PhD thesis, see [7].
• Sep 2003-Jan 2004: Temporary position as Lecturer in Mathematical statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University.

Teaching and supervision

• 1996-2000: Exercise supervision in several basic courses in Mathematical statistics and Stochastic processes.
• 1996-2000: Developed new material for, and supervised, computer exercise supervision in Stochastic processes.
• 2000-2001: Master's thesis supervision, Mikaela Hedbom:
  Felsannolikheter i system för igenkänning av fingeravtryck
  (Error rates in fingerprint recognition systems)
• 2001: Master's thesis supervision, Andreas Ekefjärd:
  Modelling a Paper Fibre Structure
• 2001-2003: Developed new course in Statistical image analysis, including textbook (see [6]), lectures, computer exercises, and examination projects.
• 2002: Master's thesis supervision, Sofia Åberg:
  Modelling and Prediction of wind fields using GMRF and Warping
• 2003: PhD student supervision, Sofia Åberg.
• 2003: Supervised a group of students in the introductory Mathematical modelling course at the Technical Matematics program at Lund Institute of Technology.

Publications

• [1] F. Lindgren, Flame reconstruction by Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation, 42 pages, Master's thesis, Department of Mathematical statistics, Lund, 1997.
• [2] F. Lindgren, Flame Reconstruction, paper in the proceedings of the Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshop: The Art and Science of Bayesian Image Analysis, 8 pages, June-July 1997.
• [3] F. Lindgren, B. Johansson, J. Holst, Flame Reconstruction in Spark Ignition Engines, SAE paper 972825, refereed paper presented at the Society for Automotive Engineering, Fall Fuels and Lubricants Meeting & Exposition, 12 pages, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 1997.
• [4] F. Lindgren, Reconstruction of Smooth Surfaces using MCMC, in Book of Abstracts, Second European Conference on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, pp. 175-176, HSSS, Pavia, Italy, September 1999.
• [5] F. Lindgren, A Stochastic Surface Modelling System, refereed paper presented at the 12th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 7 pages, Bergen, Norway, June 2001.
• [6] F. Lindgren, Image Modelling and Estimation; A Statistical Approach, 100 pages, textbook for a course in Statistical image analysis, Lund, 2001, 2002.
• [7] F. Lindgren, Stochastic Modelling and Reconstruction of Random Shapes, 150 pages, Doctorate thesis, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund, 2003.

Unpublished presentations

• [8] Markov chain Monte Carlo with applications, invited talk at the Winter Conference in Hemavan, March 1999.
• [9] Reconstruction of Smooth Surfaces from Partial Observations, talk at the Image Analysis and Spatial Statistics Workshop, Göteborg, April 1999.
• [10] Reconstruction of Smooth Surfaces in Computer Vision, talk at Statistical Methods for Image Processing, satellite conference of the 52nd ISI Session in Helsinki, Uppsala, 1999.
• [11] Rekonstruktion av partiellt observerade ytor, seminar at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund, September 1999.
• [12] Stochastic surface modelling and estimation, seminar at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund, June 2002.
• [13] S. Åberg, A. Malmberg, F. Lindgren, Forecasting ocean winds using warping, poster at the ISI International Conference on Environmental Statistics and Health, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 2003.

Technical knowledge

Non-technical experience

• 1982-1992, 1992-1995: Lund municipal music school, Basic and continued Violoncello education.
• 1991-1995: Cellist in the Nordic Youth Orchestra, two weeks each summer.
• 1995-2001, 2003: Cellist in the Academic Orchestra (AKS) at Lund University.
  Lead cellist 1997-1998 and 2000.
  Web-master for AKS 1995-2001
• 1996-1999: Cellist in the Lund New Chamber Orchestra.
• 1997-present: Member of the string quartet+voice ensemble Brytpunkt.