Heikki Mannila
Aalto University
Department of Information and Computer Science and
HIIT Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
P.O. Box 15400
FI-00076 Aalto
Finland

Prof. Heikki Mannila received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1985 from the University of Helsinki. He has been a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology, and a researcher at Microsoft Research and Nokia Research Centre. Currently, he is vice president for academic affairs at Aalto University. His research area of is algorithms for data analysis, and applications in science and in industry. Heikki Mannila is the author of two books and over 190 refereed articles in computer science and related areas. He received the ACM SIGKDD Innovation award in 2003 and the IEEE ICDM research contributions award in 2009.