Researchers specialised in artificial intelligence, data science and algorithms
This list of researchers is not comprehensive but simply an overview. The list is updated regularly. You can find contact details for all the University of Helsinki staff in our People Finder, and our Research Portal includes even more detailed information about e.g. our researchers' publications and fields of specialisation. The University’s communications specialists are also happy to help.
, assistant professor
- Information retrieval, exploratory search, reinforcement learning, personalization, interactive search, recommender systems, artificial intelligence, data science, cognitive aspects of artificial intelligence
, professor
- Social ethics, ethics of AI, member of Ethical Advisory Board
, professor
- Parallel and Distributed Data Science, Big data, Distributed Systems, Parallel Computing, Cloud Computing, vice director of
, professor
- Machine learning, data science, privacy and machine learning/AI, security of machine learning/AI, AI and health
, professor
- Machine learning, computational neuroscience
, research director
, professor
- Automated reasoning, optimization, verified AI. Chair of Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society.
, associate professor
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistical modelling
, professor
- Research and teaching in algorithms and machine learning
, apulaisprofessori
- Assistant professor of Social and Legal Implications of AI. Datafication, algorithmisation, and automation of legal practices. AI ethics, policy and regulation. Law and digitalisation, digital access to justice.
, professor
- Text mining, social data science, machine learning, unsupervised methods, language technology.
, professori
- Data protection, personal data.
, associate professor
- Societal implications of AI, AI literacy, AI and programming education, educational technology, large language models in education
, associate professor
- Social networks, data science
, professor
- Artificial intelligence methods, machine learning, decision-support systems. Vice-Director, , responsibilities include e.g. national and international collaboration between different fields of science and societal sectors. Member of a national group of experts in artificial intelligence and digitalization.
, tutkijatohtori
- Post-doc in law and digitalisation, expert on data economy, big data, EU regulation of online platforms, competition law, automated decision-making, GDPR, digitalisation in legal education and professional training.
, professor
, professor
- Software systems in data-intensive computing, engineering and testing of AI systems, Green AI
, professor
- Information retrieval, data mining, data science and machine learning combined with atmospheric sciences
, professor
- Artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, societal implications of AI, and Building AI online courses
, professor
- Spatio-temporal data analysis, navigation technologies, GPS interference, computer vision, autonomous systems, drones, AI for sustainability science
, academy research fellow
- Information retrieval, recommender systems, cognitive modelling, brain-computer interfaces, physiological computing, interactive information visualization
, university lecturer and principal investigator
- AI philosophy, AI ethics, human-machine cognitive interaction, cognitive science. Lead instructor of the .
, dean
- Director of . Internet of things, artifical intelligence (AI).
, professor
- Artificial intelligence (AI), creative AI, creativity, text generation, large language models, GPT, data science, data mining
, academy research fellow
- Theological and religious perspectives on AI, AI and humanity, free will, moral responsibility and AI
, professor
, professor
- data science and evolution, predictive modelling, fairness-aware machine learning,