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; Computational Inference; Scalable Networks; and Network Society.

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

• Adaptive Computing
• Collaborative Networking
• Combinatorial Pattern Matching
• Complex Systems Computation
• Data Mining: Theory and Applications (mainly Aalto University)
• Discovery Group: Data Mining and Computational Creativity
• Genome-Scale Algorithms
• Mobile Computing
• Neuroinformatics
• Probabilistic Mechanistic Models for Genomics
• Statistical Machine Learning and Bioinformatics (also at Aalto university)
• Ubiquitous Interaction

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

Contact persons:

• Director Samuel Kaski (at Aalto University)
• Vice-Director Patrik Floréen