Timo Honkela, PhD is Chief Research Scientist at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University

Aalto University

Aalto University is a Finnish university established on January 1, 2010, by the merger of the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of Art and Design Helsinki....

 School of Science. He is the head of the Computational Cognitive Systems research group of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre.

Timo Honkela has conducted research on several areas related to knowledge engineering

Knowledge engineering

Knowledge engineering was defined in 1983 by Edward Feigenbaum, and Pamela McCorduck as follows:At present, it refers to the building, maintaining and development of knowledge-based systems...

, cognitive model

Cognitive model

A cognitive model is an approximation to animal cognitive processes for the purposes of comprehension and prediction. Cognitive models can be developed within or without a cognitive architecture, though the two are not always easily distinguishable.In contrast to cognitive architectures, cognitive...

ing and natural language processing

Natural language processing

Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....

. This includes a central role in the development of the Websom method for visual information retrieval

Information retrieval

Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...

 and text mining

Text mining

Text mining, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, refers to the process of deriving high-quality information from text. High-quality information is typically derived through the devising of patterns and trends through means such as...

 based on the Kohonen

Teuvo Kohonen

Teuvo Kohonen, Dr. Ing , is a Finnish academician and prominent researcher. He is currently professor emeritus of the Academy of Finland.Prof...

 self-organizing map

Self-organizing map

A self-organizing map or self-organizing feature map is a type of artificial neural network that is trained using unsupervised learning to produce a low-dimensional , discretized representation of the input space of the training samples, called a map...

 algorithm. Honkela collaborated with George Legrady

George Legrady

George Legrady is a multidisciplinary, interactive media artist. He began his photographic artistic practice in Montreal. In 1973, he received his first major project, a photo documentary in northern Quebec of four James Bay Cree communities in response to the James Bay Cree hydroelectric conflict...

 to produce Pockets Full of Memories, an interactive museum installation. The concept was created by Legrady. Honkela is a former long-term chairman of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society.

Honkela is currently the chair of the IFIP working group on knowledge representation

Knowledge representation

Knowledge representation is an area of artificial intelligence research aimed at representing knowledge in symbols to facilitate inferencing from those knowledge elements, creating new elements of knowledge...

 and reasoning (WG 12.1) and Finland's representative in TC12 on artificial intelligence. In this position, he has organized AKRR'05 and AKRR'08, the international and interdisciplinary conference on adaptive knowledge representation and reasoning. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Neural Networks Society

Enns

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Honkela has given a large number of keynote, invited and regular talks in international conferences including

• International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, January,

2009 (keynote talk)

• International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing,

Santorini, Greece, June 2008 (keynote talk)

• IGERT Seminar Series, University of California Santa Barbara, USA, December, 2006 (invited talk)
• 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.
• Jorma Laaksonen and Timo Honkela (editors): Advances in Self-Organizing Maps, Springer, 2011.