International Evaluation of Finnish Computer Science

4.5. Most important foreign collaborators

List the most important foreign collaborators, as defined in item 4.1.

Name and Organisation	Type of collaboration	Country
UNIVERSITIES
Aalborg University, Hans Andersen	Research collaboration (machine vision techniques, IPCity)	Denmark
Aalborg University, Lars Roost, Gustav Haraldsson, Per Toft	Joint research on HIP evaluation, OpenDHT-HIP interface	Denmark
Aarhus University Hospital	Joint research to develop methods for finding regulatory motifs and cascades. Integrated approach that combines computational and wet lab techniques. Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.	Denmark
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg	Exchange of researchers. Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics. Joint research, exchange of researchers. Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming.	Germany
Centre for Network Computing, Multimedia University	Joint EU project on the are of mobile communication applied in developing countries	Malaysia
Danish Center for Design Research, Copenhagen, Director Thomas Binder	Book writing and research on design theory and studies	Denmark
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques (Ensica)	Joint ESA project in the area of satellite communication	France
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Distributed Information Systems Lab (EPFL): Karl Aberer	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	Switzerland
Eindhoven University of Technology Gary Bente	Open Distributed Processing Reference Model and component standards, editors, national delegate, Involvement in the standardisation; context-aware mobile systems Research collaboration in European projects	Netherlands, the
Georgia Tech, and University of Padova: Professor Alberto Apostolico	Exchange of researchers. Field: String algorithmics.	USA, Italy
Graz University of Technology, Professor Dieter Schmalstieg	EU IPCity project Joint development on mobile mixed reality, Research collaboration (software development, IPCity)	Austria
Hannover School of Music and Drama, Christoph Klimmt	Research collaboration in European projects	Germany
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	Joint research, exchange of researchers. Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming	United Kingdom
Renewable Resources Assessment Group (RRAG)	A joint EU project on statistical analysis of Baltic salmon population
Indian Institute of Technology, Bhaskar Raman	Student exchange, code development, conference papers	India
INSA Lyon	Exchange of researchers. Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics.	France
Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo: Dr. Shohei Shimizu	Dr. Hyvärinen visited Institute of Statistical Mathematics for one month in 2006. Fields: Non-Gaussian probabilistic modeling.	Japan
Jozef Stefan Institute	Joint EU project Fields: statistical multilingual analysis for retrieval and translation	Slovenia
	Exchange of researchers. Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics
Marko Grobelnik	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden: Professor Juha Kere	Research collaboration, joint supervision of Ph.D. students, sharing of personnel, and funding of some researchers from sources of the application groups Field: medical genetics	Sweden
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven:		Belgium
Professor Luc De Raedt	Collaboration in joint research projects (currently April II and IQ), exchange of personnel Fields: Machine learning in relational data
The VISICS team	A joint EU project on video summarization
The ICRI-LIIR team	A joint EU project on text summarization
King’s College, London: Professor Costas Iliopoulos	Joint projects, exchange of researchers. Fields: Algorithms and software for retrieval and analysis of music sequences.	United Kingdom
	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications
Lund University, Department of Information Technology: Anders Ardö	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	Sweden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nathan Eagle	Research	USA
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL): Associate Professor Tommi Jaakkola	Yearly visits, joint research. Fields: Machine learning methods and their applications in modeling and analysis of molecular biological systems.	USA
Media Lab: Nathan Eagle	Joint field experiment leading to Eagle's PhD, joint journal paper
National Technical University of Athens, Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory, Professor Stefanos Kollias Professor Foto Afrati	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications =? EU CALLAS project, development of multimodal empathic applications data mining	Greece
Michigan State University, Frank Biocca	Research collaboration on projects and publications	USA
Osaka University, Division of Mathematical Sciences: Professor Yutaka Kano	Joint supervision of PhD student (Shohei Shimizu), who visited us for 18 months during his PhD and is now back for a post-doc period. Fields: Non-Gaussian probabilistic modeling.	Japan
Polytechnique de Grenoble : Dr. Patrick Bas, Institut	Fields. Image processing.	France
Pomeranian Medical University	Joint research to develop methods for finding regulatory motifs and cascades. Integrated approach that combines computational and wet lab techniques. Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.	Poland
Queen Mary and Westfield College London	Joint EU project in the area of mobile computing and communications	UK
Rutgers University: Associate Professor Liviu Iftodé:	Joint Ph.D. workshops	USA
RWTH Aachen University of Technology	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Germany
Scottish Agriculture College	Joint EU project on the are of mobile communication applied in developing countries	UK
Stanford University, Byron Reeves	Research collaboration and information exchange	USA
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	A joint EU project on statistical analysis of Baltic salmon population.	Sweden
Technical University of Denmark, Center of Knowledge Technology (DTU): Gert Schmeltz Pedersen	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	Denmark
Technical University of Madrid	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Spain
Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology, China: Lizhu Zhou	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies, research exchange, joint workshop organization activities	China
Université Paris-Nord, Laboratoire d'Informatique (Paris 13): Adeline Nazarenko	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	France
University Carlos III of Madrid, Marcelo Bagnulo	Standardization, research	Spain
University College London; Professor John Shawe-Taylor	Exchange of researchers and joint projects. Fields: Machine learning, statistical machine translation, bioinformatics	United Kingdom
	Joint EU project Fields: statistical multilingual analysis for retrieval and translation
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Tumor Biology, Hamburg: Dr. Harriet Wikman	Fields: Genome structure and gene mapping: Cytomolecular genetics.	Germany
University of Amsterdam, Instituut voor Informatierecht IVIR, Professor Berndt Hugenholtz	Research collaboration	Netherlands, the
University of Antwerp	Exchange of researchers. Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics.	Belgium
University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, Antwerp: Professor Ivan Janssens	Fields: Environmental research, forest research, ecology; high-dimensional data.	Belgium
University of Athens	Joint EU project in the area of mobile computing and communications	Greece
University of Augsburg, Professor Elisabeth André	EU CALLAS project HCI studies of Emotion recognition in multimodal installations	Germany
University of Bielefeld: Professors Robert Giegerich and Jens Stoye	Exchange of researchers, joint actions in PhD education Field: Biological sequence analysis, bioinformatics.	Germany
University of California at Riverside: Professor Dimitrios Gunopulos	Joint research Fields: Pattern discovery in complex data sets, spatiotemporal data	USA
University of California at Santa Cruz		USA
Professor Dimitris Achlioptas	NSF proposal in preparation. Fields: High-dimensional data, sums of products
University of California, Berkeley		USA
SIMS, Garage Cinema Research Group: Marc Davis	Joint construction of a mobile media application leading to several publications at SIMS
CS Department, Professor Randy Katz, Associate Professor Anthony Joseph	Joint Ph.D. workshops, joint research
CS Department, Professor Michael Jordan	Student exchange visits
SIMS, Professor Hal Varian	Joint research, research visits
SIMS, Professor Annalee Saxenian	Joint research, research visits
ICSI & CS Department, Professor Scott Shenker	Joint research, research visits, joint experiments, joint research centre (in preparation)
SIMS, Professor Mark Davis	Joint research, research visits
SIMS, Professor Nancy Van House	Joint research, research visits
Sociology, Professor Manuel Castells (also at University of Southern California)	Joint research, research visits
University of Cambridge	Examining doctoral theses	United Kingdom
University of Catania	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Italy
University of Cologne, Gary Bente	Research collaboration in European projects	Germany
University of Copenhagen	Examining doctoral thesises	Denmark
University of Edinburgh, AHRC Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Dean Hector MacQueen	Research collaboration	United Kingdom
University of Florence, Florence	Joint research, exchange of researchers. Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming.	Italy
University of Hamburg-Harburg (Murugarag Shanmugam, Aarthi Nagarajan)	Joint research on HIP registration protocol	Germany
University of Kassel	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	Germany
University of Konstanz: Professor Michael Berthold, Professor Dietmar Saupe	Cooperation in PhD programme Fields: computer science	Germany
University of Maastricht: Professor Elia Formisano and Professor Rainer Goebel	Fields: Brain imaging data analysis methods. Specific topic: Stability analysis of ICA and application of ICA on data from different subjects.	Netherlands, The
University of Malmö, Professor Pelle Ehn	Book writing and research on design theory and studies	Sweden
University of Milan – Bicocca, Professor Giorgio De Michelis	Book writing and research on design theory and studies	Italy
University of Naples: Dr. Fabrizio Esposito	Fields: Brain imaging data analysis methods. Specific topic: Stability analysis of ICA and application of ICA on data from different subjects.	Italy
University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, The Visual Geometry Group	Joint EU project on image & video analysis	United Kingdom
University of Paris 6	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	France
University of Parma (UNIPR), Department of Information Engineering, Dr. Natalya Fedotova	Joint research on HIP for P2P	Italy
University of Sao Paulo, Laboratory of Computer Architecture and Networks, Prof. Tereza Cristina M. B. Carvalho	Joint research on HIP measurements, Hi3	Brazil
University of Salford: Drew Hemment	Location Oriented Critical Arts (LOCA) project with two book chapters, a large installation at the 2006 International Symposium on Electronic Art and a joint journal article	United Kingdom
University of Southampton, Professor John-Shaw-Taylor	Joint EU project Fields: statistical multilingual analysis for retrieval and translation Joint EU project on information retrieval methods, researcher visits	United Kingdom
University of Surrey	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems	United Kingdom
University of Texas at Arlington: Professor Gautam Das	Joint research. Fields: Pattern discovery, high-dimensional data.	USA
University of Tübingen and RWTH Aachen, Klaus Wehrle	Joint research, research visits, joint workshops,	Germany
University of Utah, Thomas Henderson	Standardization, research	USA
University of Wales Aberysthwyth	Exchange of researchers. Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics.	United Kingdom
Valencia Technical University, Mariano Alcaniz	Research collaboration in European projects	Spain
Vienna University of Technology, Professor Ina Wagner, Thomas Psik	EU IPCity project Mixed reality in urban environments and joint analysis of field material	Austria
Waseda University, Tatsuo Nakajima	Research visits	Japan
RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands: Peter Grünwald, Vitanyi	A joint EU project on compression-based modeling, a joint EU project on MDL theory, several short- and long-term research visits; Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Netherlands, the
CNRS	A joint EU project on visual recognition	France
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI): Dr. Alvis Brazma	Type: research collaboration on analysis of gene expression and gene regulation, exchange of researchers, joint project Field: gene expression data analysis	United Kingdom
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Greece
Fraunhofer Institute (GMD), Dr Wolfgang Broll Jan Ohlenburg	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems =? Research collaboration (software infrastructure, IPCity)	Germany
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)	Joint research to develop methods for finding regulatory motifs and cascades. Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.	Germany
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Anthony Jameson	Joint research	Germany
INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique: Claire Nédellec	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	France
INRIA		France
	Joint EU and ESA projects in the area of mobile computing and communications
INRIA Rocquencourt	Joint research, exchange of researchers. Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming.
INRIA Lyon, the LEAR team	A joint EU project on visual recognition
Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen: Clive Best	Joint research regarding Europe Media Monitor. - Applying language technology to process epidemiological text collections	Italy
Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, the Empirical Inference for Machine Learning and Perception department	A joint EU project on semi-supervised learning	Germany
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Kristina Höök, Bengt Ahlgren	Research, joint project	Sweden
Swedish National Board of Fisheries SNBF	A joint EU project on statistical analysis of Baltic salmon population	Sweden
Enterprises
3eyes Ltd: Theo Humphries	Joint research and art installations Fields: Context-awareness and privacy	United Kingdom
Agora Systems	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Spain
Alcatel	Joint research projects Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Belgium
Alcatel-CIT	Joint research project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	France
ALMA Bioinformatica, S.L.,	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	Spain
BellStream SP.z.o.o, Szczecin	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	Poland
Boeing Phantom Works, Dr. Tom Henderson	Co-chairing IRTF research group on HIP, joint research on HIP deployment	USA
British Telecom	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	UK
CIT	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Denmark
CSEM Centre Suisse d’electronique et de Microtechnique	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Switzerland
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Sebastian Möller, Michael Rohs	Joint research	Germany
DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Munich	Joint project Fields: Mobile computing and communications; Context-aware mobile systems	Germany
Engineering, Massimo Bertoncini	EU CALLAS project Partners in demonstration and trials	Italy
European Media Laboratory GmbH (EML)	Joint EU project in the area of mobile computing and communications	Germany
European Software Institute	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Spain
Exalead SA	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	France
Fagor	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Spain
Febit Biotech GmbH	Joint research Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.	Germany
France Telecom	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	France
Google Inc.	Fields: database systems	USA
Hewlett-Packard Italiana srl. Cernusco Sul Naviglio	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	Italy
Ikerlan	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Spain
Index Data Aps	A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies	Denmark
Intel Research Seattle: Ian Smith	Co-organisation of a workshop in MobileHCI 2004, researcher exchange	USA
Intracom	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Greece
Italtel	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Italy
LM Ericsson Ab	Joint projects Fields: Mobile computing and communications; Context-aware mobile systems	Sweden
Megaskills	Joint EU project on the are of mobile communication applied in developing countries	United Kingdom
Microsoft, Search Labs; Dr. Rakesh Agrawal	Fields: information technology, database systems	USA
Microsoft Cambridge, Tuomas Aura	Conference papers, joint research on HIP security analysis	United Kingdom
Motorola Ltd, Basingstoke Hants	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	United Kingdom
Motorola SAS, Gif Sur Yvette	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	France
NEC Europe Ltd	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems Joint research on RVS implementation for HIP	Germany
NEOS Engineering SRL, Brescia	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	Italy
NTT DoKoMo	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Germany/Japan
Océ	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Netherlands, the
Philips	Joint research projects Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Netherlands, The
Portugal Telecom Inovação	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Portugal
Robotiker	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Spain
Saia burgess	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Spain
Siemens Hannes Tschofenig	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems Standardization, conference papers, joint research on HIP middleboxes	Germany
Sony	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Germany/Japan
Stichting Telematica Instituut, Enschede, Netherlands	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	Netherlands, the
Telecom Italia SpA	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems Joint research on HIP implementation evaluation	Italy
Telematica Instituut	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Netherlands, the
TeliaSonera Sweden, Owe Lavin	Research on service science and design	Sweden
Thales	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	France/UK
T-Mobile	Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications	Germany
UNIS, spol. S.r.o., Brno	Joint project Fields: Context-aware mobile systems	Czech Republic
Visual Tools	Joint project Fields: context-aware mobile systems	Spain
Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Nicola Cancedda	Joint EU project Fields: statistical multilingual analysis for retrieval and translation Joint EU projects in the area of text analysis and information retrieval	France
Yahoo! Research Barcelona: Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Professor Raghu Ramakrishnan	Exchange of researchers, joint projects Field: Web mining, text mining, information retrieval	Spain
Yahoo! Research Berkeley: Marc Davis, Mor Naaman	Joint research on social media	USA
Networks of Excellence, European projects, other networks
Biosapiens – European Network of Excellence for Integrated Genome Annotation, Dr. Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK	Joint research, exchange of researchers, researcher education. Fields: Analysis and annotation of biological sequences.	Europe
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research network Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception, organized by Geoffrey Hinton, Toronto.	Joint research	Canada
MINEMA, Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications (ESF programme)	Exchange of researchers, researcher education Fields: mobile computing and communications	Europe
PASCAL – European Network of Excellence on Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Computational Learning.	Exchange of researchers, researcher education, research seminars. Fields: Europe-wide Distributed Institute which will pioneer principled methods of pattern analysis, statistical modelling and computational learning.	Europe
13th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'02) and 6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'02), 19-23 August, 2002, Helsinki	International scientific conference with about 200 participants Program chairs: Tapio Elomaa, Heikki Mannila, Hannu Toivonen; organizing chair: Helena Ahonen-Myka	International
1^st International Mobile IPR Workshop: Rights Management of Information Products on the Mobile Internet	International workshop, organiser: Olli Pitkänen	International
Proactive Computing Workshop (PROW 2004), 25-26 November, 2004, Helsinki	International PhD student workshop conference with 54 participants Organiser: Greger Lindén	International
Seminar on Challenge of Creative Economy, 1 June 2005, Helsinki,. Finland	The Finnish Parliament's Committee and HIIT co-organisers. Speakers at the event included the Minister of Treasury Antti Kalliomäki, Professor Manuel Castells, PhD Pekka Himanen and CEO Matti Alahuhta. The seminar was chaired by the chairman of the Committee for the Future, Member of Parliament Jyrki Katainen.	International
Workshop on Context-Awareness for Proactive Systems (CAPS 2005), 16-17 June, 2005, Helsinki	International scientific workshop conference with 33 participants Program Chairs: Patrik Floréen, Kimmo Raatikainen, organisers: Greger Lindén, Tiina Niklander	International
International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IIIA 2006), 6-8 July, 2006, Helsinki	International scientific workshop conference with 45 participants Co-chairs: Wray Buntine, Henry Tirri Organising chair: Petri Myllymäki,	International
Dagstuhl Seminar 06441: Naming and Addressing for Next-Generation Internetworks	Co-Chair: Andrei Gurtov	International