Prof. Esko Ukkonen's and Prof. Samuel Kaski's groups join HIIT

28 Aug 2006 - In its inaugural meeting, the newly established HIIT Steering Group decided to accept two new research groups into HIIT: the Computational Biology group led by prof. Esko Ukkonen from University of Helsinki and the Statistical Machine Learning and Bioinformatics group led by prof. Samuel Kaski from the Helsinki University of Technology. The work of Prof. Ukkonen's group will mainly be focused on HIIT's Algorithmic Data Analysis (ADA) programme, while prof. Kaski's group will contribute both to ADA and the Probabilistic Adaptive Systems (PAS) programme.