HiDATA research

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 Planet-scale environmental monitoring MegaSense.

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 (Jukka. K. Nurminen)
Parallel and Distributed Data Science (Keijo Heljanko)
Spatiotemporal Data Analysis for Sustainability Science (Laura Ruotsalainen)
Computer Science and Atmospheric Sciences. (Kai Puolamäki)
Data Science - Machine Learning and AI (Dorota Glowacka, Antti Honkela)
Data Science - Knowledge discovery in big data (Simon Puglisi)
Privacy-aware and secure data science (Nikolaj Tatti)