Timo Honkela
Timo Honkela, PhD (born August 4, 1962), is Professor at the University of Helsinki. Before joining the University of Helsinki he has worked as a professor in two Schools of the Aalto University, The School of Art, Design and Architecture and the School of Science.[1][2][3]
Timo Honkela has conducted research on several areas related to knowledge engineering, cognitive modeling and natural language processing.[4] This includes a central role in the development of the Websom method[5] for visual information retrieval and text mining based on the Kohonen self-organizing map algorithm. Honkela collaborated with George Legrady to produce Pockets Full of Memories, an interactive museum installation. The concept was created by Legrady.[6] Honkela is a former long-term chairman of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society.[7]
Honkela is currently the chair of the IFIP working group on knowledge representation and reasoning (WG 12.1) and Finland's representative in TC12 on artificial intelligence.[8][9] In this position, he has organized AKRR'05 and AKRR'08, the international and interdisciplinary conference on adaptive knowledge representation and reasoning.[10] He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Neural Networks Society.[11]
Honkela has given a large number of keynote, invited and regular talks in international conferences including
- International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Porto, Portugal, January 2009 (keynote talk)[12]
- International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, Santorini, Greece, June 2008 (keynote talk)[13]
- IGERT Seminar Series, University of California Santa Barbara, USA, December 2006 (invited talk)[14]
- International Conference on Fundamentals of Data Organization, FODO'98, Kobe, Japan, November 1998 (keynote talk)
Publications
- Timo Honkela, Wlodzislaw Duch, Mark Girolami and Samuel Kaski (editors): Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, Springer, 2011.[15]
- Jorma Laaksonen and Timo Honkela (editors): Advances in Self-Organizing Maps, Springer, 2011.[16]
References
- ↑ Suomen professorit - Finlands professorer, editor Veli-Matti Autio, Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy, Jyväskylä, 2000.
- ↑ Suomen Professorit – Finlands Professorer 1640- 2007, editor Leena Ellonen, Suomen professoriliitto, Helsinki, 2008.
- ↑ Timo Honkela digitaalisten aineistojen professoriksi, University of Helsinki, Department of Humanities, 2013
- ↑ Publications at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ↑ Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
- ↑ Pockets Full of Memories: an interactive museum installation, Visual Communication, 1(2): 163-169 (2002)
- ↑ Scandinavian artificial intelligence societies in 1999
- ↑ IFIP TC12 Artificial Intelligence
- ↑ IFIP TC12 members
- ↑ AKRR 2005 Committees
- ↑ Executive committee members of European Neural Network Society
- ↑ Keynote talks in ICAART 2009
- ↑ Keynote spakers in CIP 2008
- ↑ IGERT Seminars and Events, University of California Santa Barbara, Fall 2006
- ↑ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-21734-0/#section=904599&page=1 Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning
- ↑ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-21565-0/#section=904686&page=1 Advances in Self-Organizing Maps