New Information Processing Principles

Helsinki University of Technology

Director: Academy Professor Erkki Oja
tel. +358 9 451 3265 
fax +358 9 451 3277
erkki.oja(at)hut.fi

The Neural Networks Research Centre and the Laboratory of Computer and Information Science have long scientific traditions dating back to the 1960s. The main research topic for the last 20 years has been the study of neural computing, especially methods for unsupervised learning and their applications. The best-known innovation is the Self-Organizing Map (SOM), developed by  Professor Teuvo Kohonen.

Theoretical work on SOM will be continued. Special attention will be given to applications of SOM in data exploration and statistical data mining from large collections of text documents, images, financial data, industrial measurements and telecommunications data.

Independent Component Analysis has recently been under intensive research. Its algorithmic development will be continued. In the near future key applications will include the analysis of brain signals through MEG, finding hidden factors in financial data, separating telecommunication signals and finding new methods for signal preprocessing.

The Unit has a personnel of 50: four professors, eight scientists with doctorate, 16 doctoral students and 22 other staff (research assistants and administrative staff). The number of foreigners is eight.

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