Summer jobs in IT research institutions (deadline February 24th 2013)

Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students. Several salaried research assistant positions are available in a range of research projects.

There are jobs available for computer science and information technology students. In some projects there are also jobs available for students of mathematics, bioinformatics, literature, cognitive science, musicology humanities, social psychology, communications, sociology, or other social sciences.

The research assistants are needed from May to September. Contracts can also be made for a shorter period.

Jobs are available at:
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
Algorithmic Data Analysis (Algodan) Centre of Excellence

Successful applicants are required to have Bachelor’s degree or gained around 150 credits from their studies – on the Bachelor level - to be interested in research work and to be active in contributing to the projects.

Applicants should submit a web form at
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/40455/lomake.html

Applicants must upload a transcript (list of passed exams and courses) and optionally a one-page curriculum vitae with the application form. The deadline for applications is February 24th 2013.

You can get more information about the positions from the following persons:

Algorithmics in data analysis: basic research and applications
Mikko Koivisto, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mkhkoivi/sopu.shtml

Bioinformatics, algorithms for sequence assembly
Leena Salmela, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/summer2013.html

Bioinformatics for modelling biological pathways
Antti Honkela, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
http://www.hiit.fi/node/2169

CINCOlab establishment project
Lea Kutvonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/summanen/cincolab-establishment-project.html

Computational geometry
Valentin Polishchuk, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
 http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/compgeom/

Computational poetry, humor, and music
Hannu Toivonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/discovery/vacancies-thesis-topics

Creativity support tools
Hannu Toivonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/discovery/vacancies-thesis-topics

Diploid to Haploid alignment
Veli Mäkinen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/gsa/summer-internship-positions

eMuseums – develop understanding of energy usage and sustainability
Antti Ylä-Jääski, firstname.lastname@aalto.fi
https://www.hiit.fi/node/2171

Entropy coder for Burrows-Wheeler compressor
Juha Kärkkäinen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/juha.karkkainen/topics/bwtc.html

Graphics programming
Hannu Toivonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/discovery/vacancies-thesis-topics

Inferring microbial interaction networks
Antti Honkela, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
http://www.hiit.fi/node/2169

Intelligent systems
Petri Myllymäki, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
Teemu Roos, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
More information: see the list of ongoing projects at http://cosco.hiit.fi/projects.html

Interactive visualization
Hannu Toivonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/discovery/vacancies-thesis-topics

Machine learning
Arto Klami, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/aklami

Machine learning for information visualization (MIV)
Samuel Kaski, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
Jaakko Peltonen, firstname.lastname@aalto.fi
http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/summer2013/MIV.pdf

Machine learning for modelling biological pathways
Antti Honkela, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
http://www.hiit.fi/node/2169

Multi-source methods for computational medicine (MCM)
Samuel Kaski, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/summer2013/MCM.pdf

Patterns of social exchange in a networked world
Airi Lampinen, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
https://www.hiit.fi/node/2170

Proactive information retrieval and multimodal interfaces (PIR)
Samuel Kaski, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/summer2013/PIR.pdf

Reconstructing phylogenies with string compressors
Fabio Cunial, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/gsa/summer-internship-positions

Semantic computing and web-technologies
Eero Hyvönen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi
http://www.seco.tkk.fi/

Statistical machine learning (SML)
Samuel Kaski, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
Ritabrata Dutta, firstname.lastname@aalto.fi
http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/summer2013/SML.pdf