Artificial Intelligence in Finland

Posted on: 24 September 2017
By: Juho Vaiste

The Finnish government is launching development program in order to make Finland the leader in the application of artificial intelligence.

Here is a listing on what's happening on the AI field in Finland already.

Research

Academy of Finland - Novel Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Physical Sciences and Engineering Research
http://www.aka.fi/en/research-and-science-policy/academy-programmes/upcoming-programmes/ai2/

Cognitive Science in University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/kognitiotiede/english/staff/index.htm

Racisms and public communications in the hybrid media environment (HYBRA)
http://www.uta.fi/cmt/en/research/comet/projects/racisms.html

Helsinki Institute For Information Technology
https://www.hiit.fi/

Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research
http://research.cs.aalto.fi/coin/index.shtml

Language Technology Documentation Centre in Finland
https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/FiLT/PeopleEn

The Power of Algorithms research - studying the societal impact of machine decision making
https://algoritmitutkimus.fi/tutkimushanke/

RiskLab
https://risklab.fi/

User Interfaces Aalto University
http://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/

Moralities of Intelligent Machines
https://www.facebook.com/MachineMoralities/

Ville Kyrki
https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!ville_kyrki
Robotics, robotics vision.

Perttu Hämäläinen
https://mediatech.aalto.fi/~phamalainen/

Teuvo Kohonen
https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teuvo_kohonen

Mikko Kurimo
https://users.ics.aalto.fi/mikkok/
Speech and language processing

Arto Klami
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/aklami/
Multi-source probabilistic inference

Tapani Raiko
https://users.ics.aalto.fi/praiko/
Reinforcement learning

Erkki Oja
https://users.ics.aalto.fi/oja/
F.ex. Neural networks, unsupervised learning, computer vision

Timo Honkela
https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/fi/persons/timo-honkela(2c6425cd-0cdb-4775-987c-6f3bfe9e96a5).html

Harri Valpola
http://valpola.kapsi.fi/publications/

Dorota Glowacka
https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/en/persons/dorota-glowacka(7661275e-b717-4cea-92b6-04e117f18cdb).html

Otto Lappi
Cognitive science
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/olappi/

Anna-Mari Rusanen
Cognitive science
https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/fi/persons/annamari-rusanen(cab74ea2-965a-4afa-b8fe-d069766c691c).html

Petri Ylikoski
Social sciences
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/pylikosk/

Hannu Toivonen
Computer science
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/htoivone/

Michael Laakasuo
Cognitive science
http://www.helsinki.fi/kognitiotiede/henkil/

Arto Laitinen
Philosophy
http://www.uta.fi/yky/fil/yhteystiedot/artolaitinen/index.html

Raul Hakli
Social and moral philosophy
https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/en/persons/raul-hakli(7bcdbd00-b65e-45fc-a10a-892efd14e70a)/publications.html

Minna Huotilainen
Cognitive science
https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/fi/person/huotilai

Samuli Reijula
Social and moral philosophy
https://samulipoyhonen.wordpress.com/

Sasu Tarkoma
Computer science
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/starkoma/

Teemu Roos
Computer science
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ttonteri/

Ella Peltonen
Computer science
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/peltoel/

Ville Harjunen
Social psychology
https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/en/persons/ville-johannes-harj(f30fb290-0564-49df-8304-6c49700c6dce).html

Vesa Kyyrönen
Law

Samuel Rönnqvist
Computer Science
https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=EJKJjcAAAAAJ&hl=fi

Organizations, groups, meetups

The most well-known organisations, groups and meetups around AI topics.

AI Helsinki
http://www.aihelsinki.com/
Events and gathering, Uni courses

Airo Island
http://airoisland.fi/
An innovation hub focused on AI, robotics and automation

Aihelsinki Academia
https://www.meetup.com/AIHELSINKI-ACADEMIA/
AI Helsinki related meetup group. For techies.

Turku.ai
https://www.meetup.com/Turku-ai/
Turku.ai meetup group in Turku

Communications AI Finland
https://www.meetup.com/Communications-AI-Finland/
Meetup-group for professionals of communications interested in possibilities by AI

Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society
http://www.stes.fi/eindex.html
An inactive society nowdays, but have a long history next to AI development and research in Finland

Pattern Recognition Society of Finland
http://www.hatutus.org/

Finnish Society of Automation
http://www.automaatioseura.fi/