The research group

The group does not employ any new researchers currently.

Slides on the research group.

The Applications of Machine Learning (AML) research group belongs to the new big Department of Computer Science at the Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland. The former name of this group was Environmental and Industrial Machine Learning (EIML) research group up to April 2015.

The AML group is developing or has developed new machine learning techniques and applications:

• For modeling environment using time series prediction, variable selection and ensemble modeling.
• For solving various industrial problems. We have considered practical data sets and problems in chemometrics, electricity production and distribution, and bankruptcy prediction.
• Currently we are studying security problems in joint projects with F-Secure corporation and other collaborators. These problems include classification of web pages based on their images, and malfare detection from software created for Android mobile phone systems in the CloSe project.
• Dimensionality reduction and information visualization techniques which map higher dimensional data to two dimensions in some optimal or meaningful way.

The head of the AML research group is Prof. Juha Karhunen. The original EIML research group was created by Dr. Amaury Lendasse, who became Associate Professor in Iowa University, USA, from September 2014. Originally the name of this group was Time Series Prediction research group, reflecting its central research topic years ago.

Physically, the group is located in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, in the Computer Science (CS) building of Aalto University. The address of the CS building is Konemiehentie 2C, 02150 Espoo, Finland. The mail address is P.O. Box 15400, 00076 Aalto, Espoo, Finland. The email addresses of the group members are of the form: firstname.surname@aalto.fi .

Members

The members of the research group, with links to their home pages, are listed here. The research group is led by Prof. Juha Karhunen.

News

• Prof. Juha Karhunen is retiring in 2017. Alexander Grigorievskiy's new supervising professor is Aki Vehtari and Luiza Sayfullina's Alexander Jung.
• Dr. Mark van Heeswijk moved to a private corporation in January 2017 after his postdoctoral position funding ended at the end of the year 2016.
• In May 2015, Zhao Chen completed his Master's thesis.
• In November 2015, Zhao Chen starts his Master's (Diploma) thesis project under Dr. Mark van Heeswijk's instruction.
• In September 2015, Luiza Sayfullina is nominated to a graduate student position funded by our department for two years from January 2016, but currently she still works with CloSe project funding.
• In June 2015, Dusan Sovilj moves to Iowa University.
• In April 2015, Mark van Heeswijk defended successfully his doctoral thesis and gets his Doctor of Technology degree soon after this. He is currently a postdoc researcher in the AML research group.
• In March 2015, Mika Juuti's Master's (Diploma) thesis is accepted with honors (distinction), and he gets the Diploma Engineer (M.Sc.) degree. After this he moves to Prof. N. Asokan's research group in our Department of Computer Science in April 2015.
• 1.1.2015 Dr. Francesco Corona moves to Brazil but is still working 20% of his time for the AML research group.
• In October 2014, Dr. Yoan Miche moves to Nokia Siemens Networks Corp. However, he is still collaborating with us in the CloSe projects.
• In October 2014, both Emil Eirola and Dusan Sovilj defended successfully their doctoral theses and get the Doctor of Technology degree soon after this.
• In October 2014, Srikrishna Raamadhurai's and Luiza Sayfullina's Master's (Diploma) theses are accepted, and they get the Diploma Engineer (M.Sc.) degree.
• 01.09.2014: Dr. Amaury Lendasse who created the EIML group, moves to Associate professor position in Iowa University, USA.
• In September 2014, Emil Eirola starts working in the CloSe project with funding of Arcada University of Applied Sciences. He instructs our graduate student Luiza Sayfullina who is also working with the CloSe project funding.
• 17.06.2014: CloSe (Cloud security services) project and its funding for two years are accepted by Academy of Finland and Tekes. We have in this project several partners from both universities and corporations.
• 06.01.2014: From January 6, 2014, Martin Loos from EAWAG in Switzerland is a visiting researcher, staying here up to November 2014.
• 01.09.2013: From September 2013, Prof. Juha Karhunen is the new head of the EIML group, when the former head Prof. Olli Simula retired.

Courses

• T-61.5130 Machine Learning and Neural Networks, Autumn 2015. This course has been renovated in autumn 2015.
• T-61.3040 Statistical Signal Modeling, Autumn 2014. This course is no longer lectured in 2015.
• T-61.5010 Information Visualization, Spring 2014

Projects

Current Projects

• CloSe, Cloud security services: Malfare detection from Android mobile phone messages.

Former Projects

• Data to Intelligence: Web content classification and social network behaviour analysis.
• Future Internet (FI) SHOK project: large-scale malware and anomaly detection.
• Automaqua: Automation technologies for wastewater treatment plants in the era of data explosion.
• BONUS+ ERA-Net Project AMBER: Assessment and Modelling of Baltic Ecosystem Response.
• FP7-PEOPLE IEF: Developing Nonlinear Tools for Environmental Modeling and Chemoinformatics.
• CHESS: Developing chemometrics with the tools of information technology.