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Hannu Tauno Tapani Toivonen (born 1967 in Helsinki) is a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki.
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Research and teaching
Hannu Toivonen's research area is artificial intelligence and data science, especially data mining and computational creativity, along with their applications. He was chair of the programme committee for The International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2015 and for The International Conference on Data Mining in 2014.
Publications
Toivonen has published over 100 scientific articles, which have been referenced over 17,000 times in total. The most referenced articles primarily discuss the methods and theory of data mining; other referenced articles include material on context-aware mobile applications, probabilistic logic programming, palaeo-ecology, and gene mapping. Toivonen holds 10 patents.
Career
Toivonen completed his PhD on data mining in 1996. He has carried out research for Nokia in 1990–1993 and 1999–2003, and at the University of Helsinki 1993–1999 and 2002 onwards.
Toivonen has been a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki since 2002. In 2005–2006, he visited the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Toivonen was head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki in the years 2007–2009.
Honours
Hannu Toivonen is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, as well as of the Finnish Academy of Technology.
Toivonen is an honorary member of the computer science student union TKO-äly ry.