This news feed aggregates content from the Research News feeds from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University Department of Computer Science, and the University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science.
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The Study Rector at the department, University Lecturer Jaakko Kurhila, has been elected to the post of director of the Open University at the University of Helsinki. It was a tough race: all in all, 39 applicants sought the post, some of them through the Mercuri Urval headhunting process. After a consultant evaluation, interviews, and aptitude assessments, the preparatory committee for the post, the steering committee for the Open University, and the rector of the university came to a...
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Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in machine learning (call deadline 18 January, 2015) Department of Information and Computer Science invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in machine learning. For full consideration, apply by Jan 18, 2015. For further information, please visit http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/366/.
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M.Sc. Roland Kindermann defended his doctoral dissertation SMT-based Verification of Timed Systems and Software on 9 December 2014. The opponent was Dr. Susanne Graf from the CNRS & VERIMAG Laboratory, France and the custodian was Prof. Ilkka Niemelä. Further information http://sci.aalto.fi/fi/current/events/vaitos_kindermann_roland/.
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M.Sc. Nicolau Goncalves defended his doctoral dissertation Advances in Analysis and Exploration in Medical Imaging on 5 December 2014. The opponent was Dr. Kristoffer H. Madsen from Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Denmark and the custodian was Prof. Erkki Oja. The dissertation is available online at: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5948-8
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M.Sc. Mats Sjöberg defended his doctoral dissertation From pixels to semantics: visual concept detection and its applications on 25 November 2014. The opponent was Prof. Bernard Merialdo from EURECOM, France and the custodian was Prof. Erkki Oja. The dissertation is available online at: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5901-3
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M.Sc. (Tech.) Prem Raj Adhikari defended his doctoral dissertation Probabilistic Modelling of Multiresolution Biological Data on 21 November 2014. The opponent was Asst. Prof. Jeroen de Ridder from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The custodian was Prof. Samuel Kaski. The dissertation is available online at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5904-4
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M.Sc. Tero Laitinen defended his doctoral dissertation Extending SAT Solver with Parity Reasoning on 21 November 2014. The opponent was Prof. Armin Biere from Johannes Kepler Universität Austria and the custodian was Prof. Ilkka Niemelä. The dissertation is available online at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5945-7
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M.Sc. Tommi Suvitaival defended his doctoral dissertation Bayesian Multi-Way Models for Data Translation in Computational Biology on 19 November 2014. The opponent was Assistant Professor Anna Goldenberg from the University of Toronto Canada and the custodian was Prof. Samuel Kaski. The dissertation is available online at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5933-4
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Mutations and horizontal transfer of genes represent evolutionary mechanisms which have been studied extensively over decades. Until now, the role of horizontally changing gene regulatory elements at the level of population evolution has been unknown. In a study published in PNAS, professor Jukka Corander joined forces with scientists at MIT and Tel Aviv University showed that horizontal rewiring of gene regulatory elements is a ubiquitous mechanisms across different species of bacteria and...
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Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) bacteria cause annually at least 400 million diarrheal disease cases according to WHO investigations. The ETEC bacteria are a common trouble for travelers and kill approximately 400000 small children per year in the developing countries. According to current knowledge, these bacteria evolve very rapidly such that harmless commensals turn frequently into new ETEC strains via horizontal gene transfer. This belief was challenged in a study published in Nature...