Taneli MielikäinenResearch Leader

I am working on large-scale data processing, mining and visualizations with Disco in Data Insight team at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, California, USA. I am also an adjunct professor in Computer Science at University of Helsinki, Finland. Prior joining Nokia, I was doing research at HIIT BRU and FDK on various topics, including computational biology (metabolic networks, haplotype analysis, cryo-electron microscopy) data mining (pattern discovery and foundations of data mining, privacy in data analysis, inductive databases, probabilistic logic learning) and combinatorial optimization. I defended my PhD Thesis on summarization techniques for pattern collections in data mining in May 2005. For my MSc thesis I studied the computational complexity of determining relative orientations of cryo-electron microscope images of macromolecular complexes and implemented a software system Orient Express for experimenting with different heuristic search techniques.