From 1992 until the end of 1996 I worked as a researcher on the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology. I was responsible for several projects, which were related to Geographical Information Systems, route optimization, planning and scheduling of transports, simulation, allocation of transport equipment, and evaluation of the environmental effects of traffic. Due to the confidential nature of these projects, only a few publications and reports were released.
Since the beginning of 1997 I have been working at the University of Jyväskylä. I have worked in several projects within the research group on Software Engineering and Computational Intelligence, which is a part of the Laboratory of Data Analysis. I did my PhD thesis on the Department of Mathematical Information Technology. In my PhD thesis I studied computationally intelligent systems in general, and specialized in exploratory data analysis and knowledge discovery using artificial neural networks, specifically Self-Organizing Maps. Other fields of interest included intelligent information retrieval, fuzzy set theory, parallel computing, and information theory. In order to see what I have done in practice you can study the (outdated) list of publications.
After finishing my PhD thesis, I have also worked on the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and developed methods for industrial statistics, image processing, and image analysis. Recently, I worked as a project manager in a project called IMPROC (2005-2007), which is a successor of project IDEAL (2002-2004). In these projects we have developed methods and software tools to be used for data analysis and quality control of injection molding processes. These projects have been supported by the National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES) and the injection molding industry of plastics.
My current work on the Department of Biological and Environmental Science includes both teaching and research. I am responsible for the teaching of computational (and traditional) statistics, geographic information analysis, analysis of remote sensing data, spatial statistics, computational risk analysis, and meta-analysis within our department.
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