Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students. Several salaried research assistant positions are available in a range of research projects.

There are jobs available for computer science and information technology students. In some projects there are also jobs available for students of bioinformatics, or mathematics.

The research assistants are needed from May to September. Contracts can also be made for a shorter period.

Jobs are available at:

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science

Successful applicants are required to have Bachelor’s degree or gained around 150 credits from their studies – on the Bachelor level - to be interested in research work and to be active in contributing to the projects.

Applicants should submit a web form at

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/57195/lomake.html

Applicants must upload a transcript (list of passed exams and courses) and optionally a one-page curriculum vitae with the application form. The deadline for applications is February 20^th 2015.

You can get more information about the positions from the following persons:

Educational data mining and tools for education

Arto Vihavainen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/rage

http://tinyurl.com/rage2015

For this position use other option on web form and answer "Educational data mining and tools for education" for "If other, enter area".

Bioinformatics, computational personalized medicine

Samuel Kaski, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi

http://www.hiit.fi/mlb

Positions also available for bioinformatics students.

Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

Roman Yangarber, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

puls.cs.helsinki.fi/home

etymon.cs.helsinki.fi

Research area: Computational Logic

Tomi Janhunen, firstname.lastname@aalto.fi

http://research.ics.aalto.fi/cl/

Constraint reasoning, optimization, exact search algorithms, graphical models, structure discovery

Matti Järvisalo, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

http://www.hiit.fi/cosco/coreo/

Positions are available for CS students (with either strong implementation skills or good AI/algorithms/theory background) and math students (with emphasis on logic and complexity).

Experimenting with Automata Processor

Esko Ukkonen, Leena Salmela, Juha Kärkkäinen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/summer2015.html

Gene regulatory models

Esko Ukkonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

Janne Korhonen, firstname.H.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

Jarkko Toivonen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/summer2015.html

Graph algorithms in genome and transcript assembly

Veli Mäkinen, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/gsa/#topics

Graphical models, Bayesian learning, approximate inference for high-dimensional models

Jukka Corander, firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi

www.helsinki.fi/bsg

Groundwork for video-based research on decision-making, motivation, and emotions in software development teams

Tomi Männistö, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

Fabian Fagerholm, firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ffagerho/projects/summer2015/

Human-computer interaction, user centered design, information visualization, information retrieval

Giulio Jacucci, firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi

Intelligent information seeking

HIIT focus area, joining the effort of many HIIT researchers in the area of intelligent information seeking, its visualisation and interaction methods, augmentedresearch.hiit.fi.

The project Revolution of Knowledge Work, www.reknow.fi, is part of this topic area.

Contact persons: Focus area Samuel Kaski and Markus Koskela,

project coordinator Patrik Floréen, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi

Machine learning, Big Data, intelligent systems

Petri Myllymäki, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi

http://www.hiit.fi/cosco/

Machine learning meets programming education

Arto Klami, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/aklami/summer15.html

Open Source Software development in Lokki project

Programming tasks in the Lokki project for research needs

Tomi Männistö, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

Fabian Fagerholm, firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi

Probabilistic models for big data

Antti Honkela, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi

http://www.hiit.fi/u/ahonkela/summer2015.html

Probabilistic models for information visualization and human computer interaction

Samuel Kaski, Luana Micallef, Jaakko Peltonen, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi

http://www.hiit.fi/mlb

Software tools for DNA sequencing

Esko Ukkonen, Leena Salmela, firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/summer2015.html

Statistical machine learning, Bayesian modeling

Samuel Kaski, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi

http://www.hiit.fi/mlb

Positions also available for mathematics students.