People
The Discovery Research Group has hosted a diverse set of researchers and produced 20 PhDs in various areas of AI and data science.
Professor Hannu Toivonen
Prof. Hannu Toivonen works in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science, more specifically in computational creativity and data mining. He has introduced and solved several novel research problems in the area of data mining since the field was born in early 1990s; his definitions and algorithms have become standard references and textbook material in the field. He has since developed applications of data mining for gene mapping, context-aware computation, document analysis and summarisation, and computational creativity.
The current research focus of Hannu Toivonen is on using data science for computational creativity, on self-aware and creative systems, and on analysis and generation of natural language. Hannu has served as Programme Chair of ECML/PKDD 2002, IEEE ICDM 2014, ICCC 2015 and IJCAI 2022 AI, the Arts & Creativity Special Track.
Sardana Ivanova, Doctoral Researcher
Sardana is interested in low-resource languages revitalization. She works on development of various tools and resources for low-resource languages. Sardana is currently working on transfer learning to utilize resources from a more resourceful language for creation of digital tools and methods for less-resourced languages. Sardana is specifically interested in Turkic and Finno-Ugric low-resource languages.
Iikka Hauhio, Doctoral Researcher
Iikka is interested in computational creativity in large language models and other learned models.
- Dr. Kari Vasko, PhD 2004
Computational methods and models for paleoecology
- Dr. Petteri Sevon, PhD 2004
Algorithms for Association-Based Gene Mapping
- Dr. Mika Raento, PhD 2007
Exploring privacy for ubiquitous computing: Tools, methods and experiments
- Dr. Kimmo Hätönen, PhD 2009
Data mining for telecommunications network log analysis
- Dr. Kari Laasonen, PhD 2009
Mining Cell Transition Data
- Dr. Petteri Hintsanen, PhD 2011
Simulation and graph mining tools for improving gene mapping efficiency
- Dr. Fang Zhou, PhD 2012
Methods for Network Abstraction
- Dr. Mika Timonen, PhD 2013
Term Weighting in Short Documents for Document Categorization, Keyword Extraction and Query Expansion
- Dr. Lauri Eronen, PhD 2013
Computational methods for augmenting association-based gene mapping
- Dr. Esther Galbrun, PhD 2014
Methods for Redescription Mining
- Dr. Joonas Paalasmaa, PhD 2014
Monitoring Sleep with Force Sensor Measurement
- Dr. Laura Langohr, PhD 2014
Methods for Finding Interesting Nodes in Weighted Graphs
- Dr. Oskar Gross, PhD 2016
Word Associations as a Language Model for Generative and Creative Tasks
- Dr. Jukka Toivanen, PhD 2016
Methods and Models in Linguistic and Musical Computational Creativity
- Dr. Anna Kantosalo, PhD 2019
Human-Computer Co-Creativity: Designing, Evaluating and Modelling Computational Collaborators for Poetry Writing
- Dr. Khalid Alnajjar, PhD 2021
Computational Understanding, Generation and Evaluation of Creative Expressions
- Dr. Simo Linkola, PhD 2022
Creative Systems, Agents and Societies: Theoretical Analysis Tools and Empirical Collaboration Studies
- Dr. Elaine Zosa, PhD 2023
Analysis of News Media with Topic Models
- Dr. Leo Leppänen, PhD 2023
Methods for Automated Generation of Natural-Language Reports
- Eliel Soisalon-Soininen, PhD 2023 (forthcoming)
Neural Transfer Learning for Truly Low-Resource Scenarios in Natural Language Processing
- Dr. Floris Geerts, postdoc (9/2002-4/2004)
- Dr. Bart Goethals, postdoc (1/2003-9/2004)
- Dr. Päivi Onkamo, postdoc (11/2002-12/2004)
- Dr. Sebastien Mahler, postdoc (2/2009-7/2010)
- Dr. Fang Zhou, postdoc (9-12/2012)
- Dr. Alessandro Valitutti, postdoc (8/2011-12/2013)
- Dr. Tommi Opas, external member, serial entrepeneur (2013)
- Dr. Ping Xiao, postdoc (1/2014-9/2016)
- Dr. Sirpa Riihiaho, postdoc (6/2017-2/2018)
- Dr. Myriam Munezero, postdoc (1/2017-10/2018)
- Dr. Hadaytullah Kundi, postdoc (8/2017-2/2019)
- Dr. Mark Granroth-Wilding, postdoc (8/2016-7/2021)
- Dr. Michele Boggia, postdoc (12/2020-8/2021)
- Dr. Lidia Pivovarova, postdoc (4/2019-12/2021)
- Dr. Simo Linkola, postdoc (5/2022-4/2023 )