1. www.cs.helsinki.fi Department of Computer Science 2015 Faculty of Science University of Helsinki 15.5.2015 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science1

2. www.cs.helsinki.fi15.5.20152 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science University of Helsinki  The largest and the oldest university in Finland  Key data for 2014  35 000 students  8 200 employees  300 subjects  5 850 degrees/year  480 PhDs/year  Founded in Turku 1640  Moved to Helsinki 1828

3. www.cs.helsinki.fi15.5.20153 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science / Kumpula Campus Departments  Chemistry  Computer science  Geosciences and Geography  Mathematics and Statistics  Physics

4. www.cs.helsinki.fi  Leading institution in Computer Science in Finland  Students and employees 2014  1 727 students (53 PhD students; nearly 30 000 credits)  266 employees (168.7 FTE, 31.9% foreign, 20.3 % female)  Part of the Faculty of Science  Located in Exactum, Kumpula Campus  Renowned for high quality of research and teaching Department of Computer Science 15.5.20154 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

5. www.cs.helsinki.fi  BSc programme and four MSc programmes spezialising into  Algorithms, Data Analytics and Machine Learning  Algorithmic Bioinformatics  Networking and Services  Software Systems  A study profile in Data Science  Most MSc courses in English  Teaching is based on research  New activity: MOOCs  National unit of excellence in higher education (Ministry of Education), 2007-2009 and 2010- 2012 15.5.20155 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Teaching

6. www.cs.helsinki.fi MOOCs 15.5.20156 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science “I can see a day soon where you’ll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world — paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. It will change teaching, learning and the pathway to employment.” - Thomas Friedman in NYTimes 27 Jan 2013

7. www.cs.helsinki.fi15.5.20157 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Research  Focal areas of research  Data analysis  Networking and services  Software research  Novel areas: security, human-computer interaction, computational creativity, big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing  PhD education  Theory & applications & co-operation  Basic research & applied research  Core computer science & modern areas Research highlight 2014: Computational poetry in Frankfurt Book Fair

8. www.cs.helsinki.fi Professors of the department 8 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science 15.5.2015 N. Asokan Security and privacy Aapo Hyvärinen Neuro- informatics Giulio Jacucci Interactive systems, HCI Jussi Kangasharju Data networks and distributed systems Jyrki Kivinen Machine learning, algorithms Jukka Paakki Software systems Sasu Tarkoma Distributed systems and data communications Petri Myllymäki Intelligent systems, probability models Veli Mäkinen Combinatorial pattern matching Hannu Toivonen Data mining, bioinformatics, comp creativity Esko Ukkonen Algorithms, combinatorial pattern matching, bioinformatics, machine learning Jürgen Münch Software systems Tomi Männistö Software engineering Valtteri Niemi Security

9. www.cs.helsinki.fi  Some 25 research groups  Participating in several research units  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT  Joint research institute with Aalto University  Three Finnish Centres of Excellence (CoEs):  Cancer Genetics (CoECGR),  Computational Inference (COIN), and  Inversion Problems.  Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in ICT 15.5.20159 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Research

10. www.cs.helsinki.fi  International quality confirmed in research evaluations  1999 : 7/7 (UH international evaluation)  2005 : 7/7 (UH international evaluation)  2007: Academy of Finland: “... an obvious leader in computer science in Finland...”  2011 UH international evaluation: one of the best departments 15.5.201510 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Research quality

11. www.cs.helsinki.fi 20102011201220132014 Allocated funds5.375.265.385.355.44 Graduate schools, CoEs and performance-based funding 1.091.001.081.181.33 External funding4.404.144.795.165.42 Academy of Finland 1.682.112.262.191.09 Tekes 1.911.481.551.722.61 Industries 0.040.070.110.300.17 EU funding 0.150.140.390.410.81 Other funding from abroad 0.140.030.200.190.45 UH foundations 0.070.050.090.100.06 Other 0.400.270.210.260.25 Total10.8610.4011.2411.7012.19 15.5.201511 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Funding in million euros

12. www.cs.helsinki.fi 20102011201220132014 Refereed journal articles4849595775 Refereed conference articles11794118141113 Books10202 Other publications6243635037 Total228186242248227 15.5.201512 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Number of publications

13. www.cs.helsinki.fi 20102011201220132014 Bachelor’s degrees126134805676 Master’s degrees5566657151 PhD degrees739118 15.5.201513 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Degrees

14. www.cs.helsinki.fi  High impact on computer science:  During 2014, total 188 refereed publications  High citation rates  Strong utilization of results: industrial co-operation, standards, spin-offs, software, patents  Extensive collaboration  International and domestic  In computer science and across disciplines  Impact also on other sciences  Investments into researcher training 15.5.201514 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Impact on science and society

15. www.cs.helsinki.fi15.5.201515 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science Linux  The Linux OS  Started in 1991 and version 1.0 released in 1994  Linux turns 25 years in 2016  The department uses Linux since about 20 years  Linus Torvalds  Developer of the Linux OS was a student and employee at the department in 1988-1997

16. www.cs.helsinki.fi  High performance cluster with 240 nodes  Highly computationally intensive tasks (data analysis, simulations)  Used both in research and education at the department  One of the most powerful clusters in Finland ”A million dollar super computer” called Ukko 15.5.201516 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

17. www.cs.helsinki.fi  Students work seven weeks, four or five full days a week  Focus on  Education  Entrepreneurship  Research www.softwarefactory.cc “Software Factory project was the best course I have ever had. Including my whole history of education.” Tatu Kairi, University of Helsinki Software Factory 15.5.201517 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

18. www.cs.helsinki.fi  Facility for supporting networking and services related research and teaching activities  Highlights  Software-defined networks  HCI Lab  Home gateway test-bed  Wireless experiments  Energy modelling  Connection to the Ukko cluster for combined real-life and simulation/ emulation experiments NODES laboratory 15.5.201518 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

19. www.cs.helsinki.fi  One of resource centres of the Finland’s Science Education Centre LUMA  Different activities in computer science for school children and young people  Clubs  Summer camps Linkki centre 15.5.201519 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

20. www.cs.helsinki.fi  Space where novel interaction in between human, computer, and the physical environment can be developed and experimented  Place for HCI experiments and design explorations Interaction Lab 15.5.201520 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

21. www.cs.helsinki.fi15.5.201521 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science More information www.cs.helsinki.fi Department of Computer Science P.O.Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi Telephone: +358 2941 911 (switchboard) Fax: +358 2914 51120 info@cs.helsinki.fi