UKKONEN, Esko

E-mail: esko.ukkonen@cs.helsinki.fi

Interests: algorithms and data structures, string algorithms, machine learning, computational biology

Publications: [71, 89, 96-98, 102-105, 111, 117-123, 139, 157, 195, 196, 202, 207, 209-211, 242]

Memberships of program committees:

• Fifth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM '94), Asilomar, California, U.S.A., 1994
• Fourth Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT '94), Aarhus, Denmark, 1994
• Fifth International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT '94), Leipzig, Germany, 1994
• Sixth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM '95), Hanasaari, Espoo, 1995 (chair)
• 24th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP '97), Bologna, Italy, 1997

Other merits:

• Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Computing, from 1994
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), from 1991
• Member of the Finnish-Estonian Joint Committee on Informatics, 1988-94
• External reviewer for professorships at LuleåUniversity, Sweden, 1994, and at University of California at San Diego, University of California at Davis, University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Utah, 1996
• External reviewer for NSF (Washington D.C., U.S.A.) from 1991, and for TFR (Sweden) from 1993
• Member of the Ph.D. examination committee for Carsten Helgesen, University of Bergen, Norway, 1994, and for Stefan Kurtz, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1995
• Biotechnology Prize of 1996 awarded by the Alko-Group Ltd.

Personal home page: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~ukkonen/