Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Open call

⏰ Still time to apply!
The @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social Extreme Scale Access Call offers top researchers, industry & public sector access to Europe’s most powerful supercomputers – including LUMI 💪

Deadline: 27 October

🔗 eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-extreme-scale-access-mode_en

A person in a grey hoodie with a text box introducing Francesco Croce at ELLIS Institute Finland in front of a blurred background.

Making #machinelearning outcomes stable in the face of strange inputs or malicious attacks: introducing Francesco Croce, one of our 9 new principal investigators & assistant professor at @aalto.fi.

www.ellisinstitute.fi/meet-our-new...
@ellis.eu @csaalto.bsky.social

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025 The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We are #hiring Postdoctoral Fellows (3 years) or Research Fellows (5 years) for researchers in ICT. Find out more information in the 🔗 www.hiit.fi/hiit-postdoc... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky #Research #postdocjobs #postdoc

🏹 Job alert: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Health Data Science

📍Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
📅 Apply by July 7th
🔗 More info: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/12591

❄️ SMEs & startups - @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social's 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘐 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 call is open – it’s free of charge for industry users, including SMEs and startups!

🗓️ Next cut-off date: 30 June 2025

🔗 Read more and apply now: www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/access-calls...

#eurohpc #hpc #ai

Open call for European researchers

@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social has opened a continuous call for proposals for AI for science and collaborative EU projects focusing on ethical AI, Machine Learning, foundation Models, Generative AI and LLMs. 
Next cut-off date: June 20 
➡️ www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/call-for-ai-...
#ai #machinelearning #llm

🏹 Job alert: PhD/postdoc positions in Scientific Foundation Models at the University of Liège (Belgium)

📍 Liège 🇧🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/43SJtUG

Here is a poster with an overview of distributed quantum stuff we have been doing…

1/5 🌟 Our latest peer-reviewed research bridges psychology and AI/reinforcement learning (RL)! We explore how AI models of intrinsic motivation can formalise the "need for competence" in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a very popular theory of human motivation. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07423.

Machine learning models must keep up with the changing world | University of Helsinki Life Science Informatics Professor Indrė Žliobaitė develops computational methods that are explainable, trustworthy, and robust to change. With these methods, it is possible to analyse and understand ...

Life Science Informatics Professor Indrė Žliobaitė says Machine learning models must keep up with the changing world. www.helsinki.fi/en/news/arti... @univhelsinkics.bsky.social

100 frågor om AI I  100 frågor om AI får du tydliga och lättbegripliga svar på vanliga frågor om AI. Vad är AI? Kan AI fatta bättre beslut än vi människo...

The Swedish edition of my AI book, "100 frågor om AI" ("100 questions about AI"), has been published today by Natur & Kultur.

Stort tack till Linda Mannila för den suveräna översättningen och bearbetningen av boken – det har varit ett nöje att samarbeta!

www.nok.se/titlar/larom...

🏹 Job alert: Tenure-Track Position for Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence at @jku.at. Opening is at the Institute for Symbolic AI for female candidates w/ PhD.

📍 Linz 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by: May 28
🔗 More info: bit.ly/3H2GDVk

#AIJobs

Photo of four persons in front of a sign saying "Mordor". One of the persons is holding flowers and another one is holding an ice cream.

We went to Mordor and all we got were flowers and ice cream.

Bayesian workflow group was a runner-up in Aalto Open Science Award 2024. The current and past group members running-up in alphabetical order: Alejandro Catalina, Anna Riha, Asael Alonzo Matamoros, David Kohns, ...

🚀 CSC is hiring AI Specialists for the LUMI AI Factory!
Passionate about AI & supercomputing for real-world impact? Join us to support users, deliver training, and work on projects using modern deep learning models on LUMI ❄️

➡️Read more and apply by May 28 www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/open-positio...

Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak's slides from Frontier Friday here:
algorithms.fi/frontier-fri...

Astronomers observe largest ever sample of galaxies up to over 12 billion light years away | Aalto University New observations give researchers unique insight into how galaxies have evolved since the universe was under a billion years old.

Our researchers are part of an international consortium whose latest study provides unprecedented insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies. Read more about the findings here: www.aalto.fi/en/news/astr...

HIIT Foundations Friday on 23 May 2025! Corinna Coupette gives a talk on "TCS for Law: Toward a Computational Theory of Legal Systems", more information here: research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

Aalto computer scientists in CHI 2025 | Aalto University Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

For even more human-computer interaction research from Aalto, including conversational AIs for migrants and privacy perceptions of custom GPTs, check out www.aalto.fi/en/news/aalt...
cc @aaltotechsperts.bsky.social @icthiit.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social #CHI2025

Have you thought that in computer memory model weights are given in terms of discrete values in any case. Thus, why not do probabilistic inference on the discrete (quantized) parameters. @trappmartin.bsky.social is presenting our work at #AABI2025 today. [1/3]

Interested in working on (computational) intrinsic motivation x design x architecture? A really cool PhD project coming up - UK residents only and supervised by @christophsalge.bsky.social! Ah, and I'll be co-supervising :) All info below - many opportunities to fit in your profile and ideas.

Helsinki CS Theory Seminar meets again today! Just a general reminder that our talks are also streamed online; if you join the mailing list you will also receive the Zoom link! research.cs.aalto.fi/theory/semin...

How AI is shaping journalism and journalism is shaping AI Please note, this is an in-person event which will take place at The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS.

✨ 🗒️ Join ELSA this Friday for "How AI is shaping journalism & journalism is shaping AI" hosted by the Alan Turing Institute.

Experts discuss AI in content creation and its effect on trust in journalism.

🗓️ April 11, 17:00 GMT
📍 The Royal Institution, London
🔗 www.turing.ac.uk/events/how-a...

1/3 Out now: new paper on people's perception of AI (robot) creativity! Core finding: we attribute more creativity to a creative act if people not only see the final artwork, but also its creation process & the robot making it. Video: vimeo.com/1073134853 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1145/3711...

Mission: To enable diverse mere mortals to assess an AI agent's "goodness" for their own needs Speaker: Margaret M. Burnett Event type: Guest lecture Event time: 12.5.2025 14-15 (Helsinki Time Zone UTC+3) Place: University of Helsinki Main building, Fabianinkatu 33 Pieni juhlasali The nex...

Our Distinguished Lecture Series returns with Margaret Burnett. Join us on 12 May at 2pm to listen to her lecture "Mission: To enable diverse mere mortals to assess an AI agent’s 'goodness' for their own needs" more info 🔗 www.hiit.fi/mission-to-e...

Is AI truly creative? Turns out creativity is in the eye of the beholder | Aalto University The more we see of a creative act, the more creative we judge it to be. Researchers think these findings could change the way we design AI.

What makes people think an AI system is creative? New research shows that it depends on how much they see of the creative act. Read the full article at www.aalto.fi/en/news/is-a...

AI is changing the game in construction – A student startup streamlines procurement and boosts efficiency | Aalto University Complink is helping construction companies navigate the maze of building products while improving efficiency.

Construction is one of the world’s largest and most traditional industries – yet also one where digitalisation, efficiency and sustainability urgently need improvement. Complink, founded by four Aalto University students, is addressing these challenges in the industry.

www.aalto.fi/en/news/ai-i...

NeurIPS participation in Europe We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

LUMI users' coffee break ☕ – join us this Wednesday 26 March!
This time, a special presentation about the LUMI AI guide will be given!
📅 When? Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at 13:00 CET | 14:00 EET
🎧 Where? Zoom
🔗 www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/events/userc...

#lumisupercomputer #eurohpc #hpc #ai

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025 #DHH25 | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H25 | 14.–23.5.2025

Apply now: Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DHH25 on May 14–23, 2025, application deadline April 12!
heldig.fi/dhh25