HiDATA does not have a pre-defined research agenda, but the research challenges emerge bottom-up from this multi-disciplinary network. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology facilitates interaction between the AI and Data Science communities in Helsinki.
          
            
                    
  
    
              
                	          
            Spearhead
          
              
      
        
                    HiDATA facilitates the creation of bottom-up multidiscplinary research spearheads addressing crucial societal and industrial challenges.
One spearhead is .
            
      
                    
      
               
      
       
                        
  
    
              
                	          
            Professors
          
              
      
        
                    As part of the profiling action of the University of Helsinki, eight new tenure track positions have been founded to support HiDATA.
- Data-Intensive Computing in Natural Sciences ()
 
- Parallel and Distributed Data Science ()
 
- Spatiotemporal Data Analysis for Sustainability Science ()
 
- Computer Science and Atmospheric Sciences. () 
 
- Data Science - Machine Learning and AI (, )
 
- Data Science - Knowledge discovery in big data ()
 
- Privacy-aware and secure data science ()