Curriculum vitae September 16, 2015 Name: Kaski, Samuel Gender: Male Date and place of birth: Seinäjoki, Finland, April 19, 1968 Citizenship: Finland Current residence: Finland Education and degrees awarded Doctor of Science (Technology), Helsinki University of Technology, Computer Science, 1997 Master of Science (Technology), Helsinki University of Technology, Computer Science, 1993 Title of Docent: Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 2005; Adaptive methods for analyzing large data sets, Helsinki University of Technology, 1999 Linguistic skills Finnish: Native; English: Proficient; Swedish: Certified proficiency; German: Basic Current positions Academy Professor (research professor), Academy of Finland, 2016 2020 Full Professor of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2005 Director, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research COIN, 2015 2017 Previous work experience 2015 Visiting Scholar, Kyoto University (JSPS Invitation Fellowship) (Oct-Dec) 2010 2015 Director, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University and University of Helsinki 2012 2014 Vice Director, Center of Excellence in Computational Inference 2013 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, UCL, UK (May-July) 2012 SICSA Distinguished Visitor, Univ. Glasgow, Univ. St Andrews, Univ. Edinburgh (Jan) 2009 2011 Director of Algorithmic Data Analysis Research Programme of HIIT 2007 Visiting Scholar, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK (Oct-Dec) 2006 2011 Vice Director, Center of Excellence in Adaptive Informatics Research 2004 2005 Professor of Computer Science, University of Helsinki 2004 Invited Professor, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (June) 2001 2004 Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland 1999 2001 Professor of Computer Science (pro tem), Helsinki University of Technology 1998 1999 Postdoctoral researcher, Academy of Finland 1997 1998 Junior fellow, Academy of Finland 1995 1997 Researcher (tutkimusassistentti), Academy of Finland 1994 1995 Researcher, Helsinki University of Technology 1989 1993 Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology 1
Research Leadership Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research COIN: Vice Director 2012 2014; Director 2015 2017. Director of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, 2010 2015. Algorithmic Data Analysis Research Programme of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT: Director 2009 2011. Finnish Centre of Excellence in Adaptive Informatics Research: Vice Director 2006 2011. Coordinator of 8 research consortia and principal investigator in altogether 24 projects funded by the Academy of Finland, Tekes, Helsinki Univ. Technology, Univ. Helsinki, and EU. Research Funding In the last 10 years, the total sum of 5Me not including the Center of Excellence in Adaptive Informatics Research and Center of Excellence in Computational Inference Research. Projects in 2014: EU FP7-ICT2013-10 MindSee Symbiotic Mind Computer Interaction for Information Seeking, (2013 2016), with Prof. G. Jacucci, Univ. Helsinki (Coordinator), Prof. B. Blankertz, Technische Univ. Berlin, Prof. L. Gamberini, Univ. Padova, Jonathan Freeman, i2 media research limited, UK. Academy of Finland, Academy Project 140057, Computational modeling of the biomedical effects of chemical compounds, (2011-2014). Academy of Finland, Academy-SHOK project Modeling of multiple data sources: Integration, visualization, retrieval and interaction, (2011-2014). Consortium coordinated by S. Kaski, with Prof. G. Jacucci, Univ. Helsinki and Prof. P. Myllymäki, Univ. Helsinki. Tekes, big strategic opening project Revolution of knowledge work, (2013 2017), with Dr. P. Floréen, Univ. Helsinki (coordinator), Prof. G. Jacucci, Prof. P. Myllymäki, Prof. S. Tarkoma, Univ. Helsinki, Prof. K. Müller and Dr. K. Puolamäki, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Prof. A. Gionis, Prof. J. Peltonen, Prof. N. Ravaja, Prof. M. Turpeinen, Aalto Univ. Project Privacy-aware retrieval and modelling of genomic data (PRIGENDA), Academy of Finland (2014-2016). Consortium with Dr. A. Honkela, Univ. Helsinki and Prof. K. Nyberg, Aalto Univ. Project Living factories: synthetic biology for a sustainable bioeconomy (LiF), Tekes big strategic opening (2014 2018), coordinated by Prof. M. Penttilä, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Prof. M. Linder, Aalto Univ., and Prof. E.-M. Aro, Univ. of Turku. Academy of Finland, Centre of Excellence Program, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research COIN (2012 2017). Supervision Supervised 19 doctoral dissertations, advisor of 20 postdocs; 5 lab alumni now have faculty positions, the rest are staff members at research institutes, in postdoc positions, entrepreneurs, or in other company positions. Supervised also 58 Master s Theses. Supervised doctoral theses: Suleiman Ali Khan (2015, postdoc at Univ Helsinki), Ali Faisal 2
(2014, Visiting Scholar at CMU, PA), Juuso Parkkinen (2014, Data Scientist at Reaktor Inc), Tommi Suvitaival (2014, postdoc at Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark), Seppo Virtanen (2014, postdoc at Warwick Univ, UK), Antti Ajanki (2013, Senior Software Engineer at Futurice Inc), Melih Kandemir (2012, postdoc at Heidelberg Univ, Germany), Ilkka Huopaniemi (2012, postdoc at Mount Sinai, New York, NY), José Caldas (2012, entrepreneur in Portugal), Abhishek Tripathi (2011, Xerox Research Centre India); Leo Lahti (2010, postdoc at Wageningen Univ, Netherlands); Eerika Savia (2010); Jarkko Salojärvi (2008, group leader in Univ Helsinki); Arto Klami (2008, Academy Research Fellow, Univ Helsinki), Merja Oja (2007, postdoc at Univ Washington, now Senior Researcher at VTT); Jarkko Venna (2007, Data Scientist at Sanoma Inc), Janne Nikkilä (2005, now Senior Manager at Sanoma Inc), Jaakko Peltonen (2004, postdoc at Sheffield Univ, now Academy Research Fellow and Assoc Prof of Statistics, Univ Tampere; co-supervisor), Janne Sinkkonen (2004, Senior Data Scientist at Reaktor Inc; co-supervisor). Postdoctoral advisor for: Pekka Marttinen (2012 2014, now Academy Research Fellow, Univ Lecturer at Aalto Univ); Xuran Zhao (2013 2015, Assist Prof at Zhejiang Univ, China); Kerstin Bunte (2013 2014, postdoc at UCL, Leuven, Belgium); Sohan Seth (2011 2014, postdoc at Edinburgh Univ, UK); Lu Cheng (2014, now postdoc at Aalto Univ); Mehmet Gönen (2010 2013, Assist Prof, OHSU, OR), Elisabeth Georgii (2010 2013, researcher at HelmholzZentrum München, Germany), Tuomas Rajala (2012 2013, postdoc at Chalmers Univ Tech, Sweden); Jussi Kujala (2009 2010, now Senior Manager, Nokia), Hasan Ogul (2008 2010, Assoc Prof, Baskent Univ, Turkey); Gayle Leen (2008 2010, DeCODE genetics, Iceland). On-going: Sahely Bhadra (joint appointment with Prof. Rousu s group), Paul Blomstedt, Yi Chen, Ritabrata Dutta, Manuel Eugster, Luana Micallef (joint appointment with Prof Jacucci s HCI group, HIIT), Tommi Mononen (joint appointment with Prof Salmelin s neuroscience group), Pekka Parviainen, Tomi Peltola, Marta Soare. Merits in teaching Pedagogical training: Program on higher education pedagogy (15 study weeks), Helsinki University of Technology, 2000; Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), University of Helsinki, 2001. Founding director of Finnish Doctoral Programme in Computational Sciences FICS, 2009. Founding partner of Erasmus Mundus Master s Programme in Systems Biology, 2010. Responsible for Major Machine Learning and Data Mining, Aalto University, 2015. Has been in charge of several Majors in Bioinformatics and Computer Science in University of Helsinki and Aalto University. Has given numerous courses on bioinformatics, machine learning, computational statistics and data mining, in Helsinki University of Technology, University of Helsinki, and Aalto University, and some in Technical University Graz, Technical University Wien, and Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Awards, prizes and honours Best Paper Awards: ECML 2011, ACM IUI 2013. Distinguished Contribution Award, MLG 07, The 5th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, 2007. Led TeamFIN which won the NCI-DREAM Drug Sensitivity Prediction Challenge 2012 (Subchallenge 1: breast cancer) 3
Group leader, Biocentrum Helsinki, 2014 2016. Belongs to the research community on Algorithms and Machine Learning which scored at the top of the University of Helsinki Research Evaluation, 2012. Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research COIN (2012 2017). Italgaz Prize of Academician Kohonen, 1999 (letter of recognition of collaboration). Other academic merits Doctoral thesis committees: Opponent 8 times in Finland; pre-examiner 13 times in Finland; member of dissertation committee 10 times: Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid; NTU, Singapore; Univ Potsdam; NUI Galway; Univ Paris 1; TU Denmark (2 times); Univ Bielefeld; Univ Tartu; K.U. Leuven. Evaluator for Professorships: 6 committees in Aalto Univ, 4 elsewhere in Finland, 4 elsewhere (Europe, US). Evaluator for docent positions: 8 times. Reviewer of research proposals for the European Research Council (ERC), National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), EU FP7, CoE proposals for the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK), Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (Belgium), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Swedish Foundation for Strategic Resarch (SSF), PASCAL EU NoE, Finnish Cultural Foundation, and Fulbright Center. Scientific societies: Steering committee member, PASCAL 2 (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling, and Computational Leaning) EU FP7 Network of Excellence, 2008 2013. Member of advisory board for European Society for the Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (2010 ). Member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2002 2004). Member of the Governing Board of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (2000 2002) and the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland (1999 2001). Member of ACM, IEEE, ENNS, ISCB. Action or associate editor of Journal of Machine Learning Research JMLR (2013 ), International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (2009 ). Member of the editorial board of Intelligent Data Analysis (2003 2010); International Journal of Neural Systems (2004 2011); Cognitive Neurodynamics (2007 ); and Video Journal of Machine Learning Abstracts, (Vol. 4, 2013). Guest editor of special issues of BMC Bioinformatics (2007), Machine Learning (2009), and Neurocomputing (2012). Chairman of the program committee of Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology, 25th Annual MASAMB Workshop, Helsinki, 16-17 April 2015; Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, AISTATS 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland; International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2011, Helsinki, Finland; Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2010, Kittilä, Finland; The 6th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, MLG 08, Helsinki, Finland; Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning in Structural and Systems Biology, Tuusula, Finland, 2006; NIPS 2005 Workshop on Machine Learning for Implicit Feedback and User Modeling, Whistler, BC, Canada; and Finnish Conference on Artificial Intelligence, STeP 02, Oulu, Finland, 2002. Member of the program committee of tens of scientific conferences, including International Conference on Machine Learning ICML; Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence UAI; European Conference on Computational Biology ECCB; the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR, and the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 4
Referee for 33 scientific journals. Other expert duties: Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Thematic Research Unit in Systems Biology and Chemical Biology of the GIGA Research center of the Univ. of Liège, 2012. Member of steering group for development of graduate studies in Finland (Academy of Finland) 2009 2011. Vice Head of Department of Information and Computer Science, TKK/Aalto, 2008 2010. Member of Governing Board of Biocentrum Helsinki, 2010 and Helsinki Neuroscience planning board (TKK/Aalto and Univ Helsinki) 2009. Vice member of the Governing Board of Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, 2014. 25 invited talks and 7 keynote and plenary talks in international conferences; 10 samples: NNSP01, 11th Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, Falmouth, MA, 2001; 3rd Conference of the International Society for Ecological Informatics (ISEI), Rome, Italy, 2002; 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Berlin, 2003; 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), Oslo, Norway, 2009; EMMDS 2009, European Workshop on Challenges in Modern Massive Data Sets, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009; NIPS 2010 Workshop on Challenges of Data Visualization, Whistler, BC, Canada; ICML2012 Workshop on Machine Learning in Genetics and Genomics MLGG, 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland; Workshop on Machine Learning in Computational Biology at NIPS 2013, Lake Tahoe, NV; International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB), Kyoto, Japan, 2013; and 9th Annual IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB), Stockholm, Sweden, 2014. Scientific and societal impact of research 213 peer-reviewed scientific articles. Google Scholar h-index 44, i10-index 133 (data of September 16, 2015). Co-founder of two spin-off companies; member of the scientific advisory board of three startups; former students have additionally founded startups. Listed among 100 Finnish opinion leaders in information technology in 2010 (Tietoviikko). The research has been covered by Finnish national TV, Russian State TV, Financial Times Deutschland, Helsingin Sanomat, Huvudstadsbladet, IT-viikko, Tekniikka & Talous, Tiede (Finnish science magazine) and several more specialized channels. A recent press release on interactive intent modeling was covered by 89 venues. Service in society Chairman of Board of Directors, CSC - IT Center for Science, 2012 2015. Member of the Advisory Board of Statistics Finland, 2015. 5