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General information: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki carries out basic and applied research in computer science, and offers advanced teaching based on that research. The research and teaching at the department is centred on four sub-programmes: (1) algorithmic bioinformatics, (2) algorithms, data analytics and machine learning, (3) networks and services; and (4) software systems. Since the reformation of the doctoral education at the university, the postgraduate education at the department is organised through the DoCS programme, established in 2014.

The department was elected a national centre of excellence in university education twice in a row, in years 2007-09 and 2010-12. The department participates in three Finnish Academy centres of excellence (the CoE of Cancer Genetics CoECGR, the CoE of computational inference COIN, and the CoE of inversion problems). HIIT, the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, a joint research institute for the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, partially operates at the department. In 2014, 168,7 person years were completed at the department, along with 29,954 credits, 51 Master's degrees and 8 Doctoral degrees.The total funding of the department was 12.19 MEUR, of which sum 5.42 MEUR consisted of external funding. The Department of Computer Science is situated at the Kumpula campus, the leading concentration of know-how in exact sciences in Finland.
 

General information: HIIT

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT is a joint research institute of Aalto University and the University of Helsinki for basic and applied research on information technology.

HIIT's mission is to conduct top-level research, seamlessly moving between fundamental methods and technologies to novel applications and their impact on people and society. HIIT is a strategic partnership of the two universities to take Helsinki IT to the world class and keep it there. HIIT's research is interdisciplinary, operating across departments and with industry. The current foci of research are computational modelling and data analysis, and ubiquitous ICT in the modern networked world.

HIIT groups belong to several national Centers of Excellence and co-operate with the information industry and with sciences applying information technology. HIIT works in a multidisciplinary way, with scientists from computer, natural, behavioural and social sciences, as well as from humanities and design. HIIT partners with several international and Finnish companies as well as with universities and research institutions in Europe, North America and Asia.

HIIT was founded in 1999 and now has a budget of about 11.5 million euros, realising in total about 150 person-years of work at Aalto University's Otaniemi campus and University of Helsinki's Kumpula campus, overlapping with several departments at both places.