Department of Computer Science 2015 Faculty of Science

Department of Computer Science 2015 Faculty of Science University of Helsinki Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 1

University of Helsinki § The largest and the oldest university in Finland § Key data for 2014 § 35 000 students § 8 200 employees § 300 subjects § 5 850 degrees/year § 480 Ph. Ds/year § Founded in Turku 1640 § Moved to Helsinki 1828 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 2

Faculty of Science / Kumpula Campus Departments § Chemistry § Computer science § Geosciences and Geography § Mathematics and Statistics § Physics Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 3

Department of Computer Science § Leading institution in Computer Science in Finland § Students and employees 2014 § 1 727 students (53 Ph. D students; nearly 30 000 credits) § 266 employees (168. 7 FTE, 31. 9% foreign, 20. 3 % female) § Part of the Faculty of Science § Located in Exactum, Kumpula Campus § Renowned for high quality of research and teaching Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 4

Teaching § § § Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science BSc programme and four MSc programmes spezialising into § Algorithms, Data Analytics and Machine Learning § Algorithmic Bioinformatics § Networking and Services § Software Systems A study profile in Data Science Most MSc courses in English Teaching is based on research New activity: MOOCs National unit of excellence in higher education (Ministry of Education), 2007 -2009 and 20102012 www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 5

MOOCs “I can see a day soon where you’ll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world — paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. It will change teaching, learning and the pathway to employment. ” - Thomas Friedman in NYTimes 27 Jan 2013 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 6

Research § § Research highlight 2014: Computational poetry in Frankfurt Book Fair Focal areas of research § Data analysis § Networking and services § Software research Novel areas: security, human-computer interaction, computational creativity, big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing § Ph. D education § Theory & applications & co-operation § Basic research & applied research § Core computer science & modern areas Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 7

Professors of the department N. Asokan Security and privacy Valtteri Niemi Security Aapo Hyvärinen Neuroinformatics Giulio Jacucci Interactive systems, HCI Jussi Kangasharju Data networks and distributed systems Jyrki Kivinen Machine learning, algorithms Petri Myllymäki Intelligent systems, probability models Veli Mäkinen Combinatorial pattern matching Jukka Paakki Software systems Sasu Tarkoma Distributed systems and data communications Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Jürgen Münch Software systems Hannu Toivonen Data mining, bioinformatics, comp creativity Tomi Männistö Software engineering Esko Ukkonen Algorithms, combinatorial pattern matching, bioinformatics, machine learning www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 8

Research § Some 25 research groups § Participating in several research units § Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT § Joint research institute with Aalto University § Three Finnish Centres of Excellence (Co. Es): § Cancer Genetics (Co. ECGR), § Computational Inference (COIN), and § Inversion Problems. § Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in ICT Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 9

Research quality § International quality confirmed in research evaluations § 1999 : 7/7 (UH international evaluation) § 2005 : 7/7 (UH international evaluation) § 2007: Academy of Finland: “. . . an obvious leader in computer science in Finland. . . ” § 2011 UH international evaluation: one of the best departments Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 10

Funding in million euros 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Allocated funds 5. 37 5. 26 5. 38 5. 35 5. 44 Graduate schools, Co. Es and performance-based funding 1. 09 1. 00 1. 08 1. 18 1. 33 External funding 4. 40 4. 14 4. 79 5. 16 5. 42 Academy of Finland 1. 68 2. 11 2. 26 2. 19 1. 09 Tekes 1. 91 1. 48 1. 55 1. 72 2. 61 Industries 0. 04 0. 07 0. 11 0. 30 0. 17 EU funding 0. 15 0. 14 0. 39 0. 41 0. 81 Other funding from abroad 0. 14 0. 03 0. 20 0. 19 0. 45 UH foundations 0. 07 0. 05 0. 09 0. 10 0. 06 Other 0. 40 0. 27 0. 21 0. 26 0. 25 10. 86 10. 40 11. 24 11. 70 12. 19 Total Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 11

Number of publications 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Refereed journal articles Refereed conference articles Books Other publications Total Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 48 49 59 57 75 117 94 118 141 113 1 0 2 62 43 63 50 37 228 186 242 248 227 www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 12

Degrees Bachelor’s degrees Master’s degrees Ph. D degrees Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 126 134 80 56 76 55 66 65 71 51 7 3 9 11 8 www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 13

Impact on science and society § High impact on computer science: § During 2014, total 188 refereed publications § High citation rates § Strong utilization of results: industrial co-operation, standards, spin-offs, software, patents § Extensive collaboration § International and domestic § In computer science and across disciplines § Impact also on other sciences § Investments into researcher training Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 14

Linux § The Linux OS § Started in 1991 and version 1. 0 released in 1994 § Linux turns 25 years in 2016 § The department uses Linux since about 20 years § Linus Torvalds § Developer of the Linux OS was a student and employee at the department in 1988 -1997 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 15

”A million dollar super computer” called Ukko § High performance cluster with 240 nodes § Highly computationally intensive tasks (data analysis, simulations) § Used both in research and education at the department § One of the most powerful clusters in Finland Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 16

Software Factory § Students work seven weeks, four or five full days a week § Focus on § Education § Entrepreneurship § Research www. softwarefactory. cc “Software Factory project was the best course I have ever had. Including my whole history of education. ” Tatu Kairi, University of Helsinki Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 17

NODES laboratory § Facility for supporting networking and services related research and teaching activities § Highlights § Software-defined networks § HCI Lab § Home gateway test-bed § Wireless experiments § Energy modelling § Connection to the Ukko cluster for combined real-life and simulation/ emulation experiments Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 18

Linkki centre § One of resource centres of the Finland’s Science Education Centre LUMA § Different activities in computer science for school children and young people § Clubs § Summer camps Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 19

Interaction Lab § Space where novel interaction in between human, computer, and the physical environment can be developed and experimented § Place for HCI experiments and design explorations Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 20

More information www. cs. helsinki. fi Department of Computer Science P. O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2 b) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki firstname. lastname@cs. helsinki. fi Telephone: +358 2941 911 (switchboard) Fax: +358 2914 51120 info@cs. helsinki. fi Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science www. cs. helsinki. fi 15. 5. 2015 21