Hannu Toivonen (professor)

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Professor Hannu Toivonen
Professor Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Hannu Tauno Tapani Toivonen (born 1967 in Helsinki) is a Finnish computer scientist and professor at the University of Helsinki.

Research and teaching

Hannu Toivonen's research area is artificial intelligence and data science, especially data mining and computational creativity, along with their applications.[1] He was chair of the programme committee for The International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2015[2] and for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in 2014.[3]

Publications

Toivonen has published over 200 scientific articles, which have been referenced over 26,000 times in total.[4] The most referenced articles primarily discuss the methods and theory of data mining; other referenced articles include material on context-aware mobile applications,[5][6] probabilistic logic programming,[7] paleoecology,[8] and gene mapping.[9] Toivonen holds 10 patents.[10]

Career

Toivonen completed his PhD on data mining in 1996.[11] He has carried out research for Nokia in 1990–1993 and 1999–2003, and at the University of Helsinki 1993–1999 and 2002 onwards.

Toivonen has been a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki since 2002. In 2005–2006, he visited the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Toivonen was head of the Department of Computer Science in 2007–2009 and vice-dean for academic affairs of the Faculty of Science in 2018-2021.

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Hannu Toivonen". Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Organisation". The Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Program Committee". 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. 2014. pp. xxi–xxviii. doi:10.1109/ICDM.2014.7. ISBN 978-1-4799-4302-9. Retrieved 17 April 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Hannu (TT) Toivonen". Google Scholar. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  5. ^ "ContextPhone: A prototyping platform for context-aware mobile applications". Google Scholar. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Adaptive on-device location recognition". Google Scholar. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  7. ^ "ProbLog: A Probabilistic Prolog and Its Application in Link Discovery". Google Scholar. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  8. ^ "Holocene temperature changes in northern Fennoscandia reconstructed from chironomids using Bayesian modelling". Google Scholar. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Data mining applied to linkage disequilibrium mapping". Google Scholar. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Hannu Toivonen". Google Patents. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  11. ^ "Discovery of frequent patterns in large data collections". E-thesis, University of Helsinki. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  12. ^ "06.12.2019 annetut kunniamerkit". www.ritarikunnat.fi. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Kotimaiset jäsenet" [Finnish members]. Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 1 October 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  14. ^ "Jäsenmatrikkeli" [Members]. Finnish Academy of Technology (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  15. ^ "Pöytäkirja. TKO-äly ry:n syyskokous 2010" [Minutes. TKO-äly ry autumn meeting 2010]. Archives of TKO-äly ry (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2016.