HIIT is a joint venture between the University of Helsinki and Aalto University. Its mission is to carry out internationally prominent basic and strategic research in information technology and to promote the competitiveness of the IT industry in the long run by connecting Finnish university research with the innovative process in the industries, especially in the area of long-term strategic R&D. The institute also counts multi-disciplinary research cooperation with universities and other research institutes as one of its missions. Currently, HIIT is carrying out the following research programmes: Algorithmic data analysis; Algorithmic Systems; Future Internet; Network Society.

Contact person:

• Director Samuel Kaski
• Vice-Director Patrik Floréen

HIIT's research groups at the Department of Computer Science:

• Adaptive Computing (AC)
• Collaborative Networking
• Combinatorial Pattern Matching
• Complex Systems Computation Group (CoSCo)
• Data Mining: Theory and Applications (also at Aalto)
• Discovery Group
• Mobile Computing
• Neuroinformatics
• Succinct Data Structures (SuDS)
• Ubiquitous Interaction (UIx)

HIIT also has several other research groups at Aalto University's Otaniemi campus