Funding

Research in the Statistical machine learning and bioinformatics group is funded to a great extent by individual grants and Academy Centres of Excellence (currently Adaptive Informatics Research Centre AIRC). Beyond that, we are involved in the following specific projects.

Current Projects

aivoAALTO (2009-2012)

The aivoAALTO ('brainWAVE') research project of Aalto University combines the expertise of research groups at the three different Aalto Schools.

CHEMBIOMOD (2011-2014)

Funded by the Academy of Finland.

CogState (2010)

Learning user states for cognitive user interfaces is a research project funded by Nokia Research Center.

MULTIBIO (2007-2011)

Computational data fusion of multiple biological information sources and background data (MULTIBIO) is a project funded by Tekes and the industry, in collaboration with Prof. Sakari Knuutila's group at the Laboratory of Cytomolecular Genetics, Prof. Jaakko Kangasjärvi's Plant Stress group at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Plant Signal Research, and Dr. Alvis Brazma's Microarray group at the European Bioinformatics Institute.

MMR (2008-2011)

Mobile Mixed Reality (MMR) is a research project funded by ICT SHOK Devices and Interoperability Ecosystem research programme. The collaborators are the Department of Media Technology at Aalto University School of Science, Nokia Research Center, and VTT.

Nonparametric Bayesian methods for dependency modeling (2010-2012)

Funded by the Academy of Finland.

PinView (2008-2010)

Personal Information Navigator Adapting Through Viewing (PinView) is a research project funded by EU FP7, in collaboration with University of Southampton, University College London, University of Leoben, Xerox Research Centre Europe, and celum gmbh.

SULRSL (2008-2010)

Supervised Unsupervised Learning and Relevant Subtask Learning (SULRSL) is a research project funded by the Academy of Finland.

UI-ART (2008-2012)

Urban contextual information interfaces with multimodal augmented reality (UI-ART) is a research project funded by TKK under the Multidisciplinary Institute for Digitalisation and Energy (MIDE) research programme.

Earlier Projects

TRANSCENDO (ended 2009)

The Computational Translation from Model Organisms to Humans (TRANSCENDO) is a project funded by TEKES MASI program, under the Algorithmic Data Analysis research programme, in collaboration with VTT Biotechnology, VTT Information Technology, and University of Turku.

SYSBIO (ended 2007)

MUDFUN project in the SYSBIO program of the Academy of Finland, in collaboration with Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki (Prof. Eero Castren), From Data to Knowledge Research Unit, Helsinki University of Technology (Prof. Jaakko Hollmen), and Laboratory of Cytomolecular Genetics, University of Helsinki (Prof. Sakari Knuutila).

Methods for Fusing Eye Movements and Text Content for Information Retrieval (ended 2007)

In the Pump Priming Programme, funded by The PASCAL network of excellence (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modellling and Computational Learning).

NeoBio (ended 2006)

SYMBOLIC project in the NeoBio program of Tekes, in collaboration with Control Engineering Laboratory, HUT (Prof. Heikki Hyötyniemi), MediCel Inc. (Dr. Christophe Roos), and the Finnish IT Center for Science (Dr. Minna Laine).

MICMAN (ended 2006)

Analysis of transposable elements in the human genome, in collaboration with Prof. Jonas Blomberg of Uppsala University. The evaluation report (www.aka.fi/julkaisut > Julkaisusarjan julkaisut > 1/07 Microbes and Man Research Programme 2003-2005) of the programme praised the project for "good quality and creative basic research."

Proactive Information Retrieval by Adaptive Models of User's Attention and Interests PRIMA (ended 2005)

In the research programme on proactive information technology Proaktiivinen tietotekniikka (PROACT), funded by The Academy of Finland.

LIFE2000 (ended 2003)

Analysis of functional genomics data, in collaboration with Prof. Eero Castren of the A. I. Virtanen Institute of University of Kuopio.