We are pleased to invite you to the HiDATA event DATA SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL GOOD
on Wednesday 22 May at 9:00–15:00,
in Tiedekulma – Think Corner, Yliopistonkatu 4, Helsinki.
The program of this event has two parts and you may participate in one or both of them. Please save the date, for this is a discussion you don’t want to miss!
9.00–12.00
PART ONE: Data Science for Social Good
Follow the morning programme in Unitube
You will learn about how the research in data science tackle real world problems and improve public services.
• What is MyData and how does it affect your life?
• How is the modern data research methodologies applied to detect social media deviations?
• What are the possibilities of data science to be used for the social good?
• What else are you interested in finding out about the topics of the presentations?
Please join the event and ask! The program will be consisting of real-life application examples of data science.
9.00 Opening Speech
Sasu Tarkoma, Director of HiDATA, University of Helsinki
9.15 Key Note: Data Science for Social Good - An Industry Perspective
Dipanjan Saha, Associate Vice President, Cognizant
10.00 Elements of AI
Janina Fagerlund, Reaktor
10.30 What Is MyDATA and How Does It Affect Your Life?
Karolina Mackiewicz & Ansku Tuomainen, MyData Global
11.00 Investigating Illegal Wildlife Trade from Social Media and Other Digital Platforms
Enrico di Minin, Helsinki Lab of Interdisciplinary Conservation Science, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki.
11.30 The Internet of Fake Things
Antti Ukkonen, Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
Moderator: Patrik Floréen, Vice-Director of HiDATA
12.00–13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00–15.00
PART TWO: Introduction of New HiDATA Professors
Follow the afternoon programme in Unitube
• You will learn about current HiDATA activities.
• What are the newly appointed professors going to focus on?
• What is their research about and how they are going to contribute on data science research?
The presentations are open for discussion. Come and find out more and please contribute to the discussion.
13.00 Exploratory search and interactive information retrieval
Dorota Glowacka, Assistant Professor, Data Science - Machine Learning and AI
13.30 How do we know if AI is right? Challenges in the testing of AI systems
Jukka K. Nurminen, Professor, Data-Intensive Computing in Natural Sciences
14.00 Getting Your Genome Together: Algorithmic Genomics Research in Helsinki
Simon Puglisi, Associate professor
14.30 Pervasive Data Science: Sensing for Science
Petteri Nurmi, Associate professor, Distributed Systems and Internet of Things
Moderator: Keijo Heljanko, Professor, Vice-Director of HiDATA
The program is in two sessions and you may participate in one or both of them. The event is in English.
There is no entrance fee, but we have only 200 seats available,
so please register as soon as possible.
Helsinki Centre for Data Science (HiDATA) is a world-class hub of Data Science in Helsinki and it builds on the pioneering scientific results of the community and paves way for new breakthrough results across disciplines. The overarching goal of HiDATA is to leverage the synergies of the network in solving significant societal and industrial challenges related to data analysis. HiDATA is a joint hub of the two participating universities, the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, and it is supported by the Academy of Finland. Find out more at www.helsinki.fi/hidata
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