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28.5.2012

Arto Klami receives the Dissertation Award of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (covering years 2008-2011) for his thesis Modeling of Mutual Dependencies, and gives a presentation at the Federated Computer Science Event in Helsinki.

16.5.2012

Dr. Simon Rogers from University of Glasgow will be working with the group as a Visiting Professor for the month of August.

5.5.2012

Pekka Marttinen is awarded a three-year Postdoctoral Researcher grant from the Academy of Finland. Congrats, Pekka!

24.4.2012

Prof. Samuel Kaski was elected as a new chairman of the board of CSC - IT Center for Science. For details, see the news item at the CSC website.

21.4.2012

Seppo Virtanen presented Bayesian group factor analysis at AISTATS 2012.

26.4.2012

Ali Faisal presents Sparse Nonparametric Topic Model for Transfer Learning at ESANN 2012.

20.4.2012

José Caldas defends his doctoral thesis, titled Graphical Models for Biclustering and Information Retrieval in Gene Expression Data. The opponent is Prof. Eric Xing from Carnegie Mellon University. Good luck, Zé!

20.3.2012

We are hiring a post-doc to work on the topic "Machine learning in human computer interaction". Also other topics are available in the department. Apply by 2nd of April!

13.3.2012

Dr. Johan Rung from EBI (UK) visits the group from 13th to 15th March.

6.2.2012

Apply to HIIT and ICS summer jobs! The call is closing today.

3.2.2012

We are hiring post-doctoral researchers. Apply by February 29th!

23.1.2012

The group has open positions for summer interns! Our topics are:

• Machine learning for Information Visualization
• Modeling of Brain Response to Natural Stimuli
• Multi-Source Machine Learning
• Multi-Source Modeling for Molecular Medicine
• Proactive Information Retrieval and Multimodal Interfaces

17.1.2012

Konstantinos Georgatzis joins the group as a doctoral student. Welcome!

2.1.2012

Pekka Marttinen joins the group as a post-doc. Welcome!

19.12.2011

New research positions open:

• Tenure track or tenured position in machine learning, probabilistic modelling or data mining
• 10 Postdoc / Research Associate positions in the new Finnish Center of Excellence in Computational Inference

12.12.2011

The group is present at NIPS 2011:

• Jaakko Peltonen: "Periodic Finite State Controllers for Efficient POMDP and DEC-POMDP Planning" - paper and poster at the main conference
• Tommi Suvitaival: "Detecting similar high-dimensional responses to experimental factors from human and model organism" - talk at the workshop "From Statistical Genetics to Predictive Models in Personalized Medicine"
• Ali Faisal: "Biomarker discovery via dependency analysis of multi view functional genomics data" - poster at the workshop "From Statistical Genetics to Predictive Models in Personalized Medicine"
• Suleiman Ali Khan: "Decomposing Drug response patterns with Bayesian Group Factor Analysis" - poster at Machine Learning in Computational Biology workshop

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