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 persons: Professor Samuel Kaski (Director from 31.8.2010), Patrik Floréen (Director 15.11.2009-31.7.2010, Vice Director from 1.8.2010), 
Home page: http://www.hiit.fi

Research groups in HIIT at the department:

• Adaptive Computing
• Collaborative Networking
• Combinatorial Pattern Matching
• Complex Systems Computation Group
• Data Mining: Theory and Applications (also at Aalto University)
• Discovery Group
• Mobile Computing
• Neuroinformatics
• New Paradigms in Computing
• Succinct Data Structures

There are also several other research groups in HIIT located in Otaniemi.