Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Next week: Lydia Chilton will give a guest talk hosted by @oulasvirta.bsky.social.
Join us for "Collaboration, Control, and Trust in Human-AI Systems" on March 11 at 11:00-12:00 in T1 at @csaalto.bsky.social.

@icthiit.bsky.social @univhelsinkics.bsky.social

Is a LOCAL algorithm computable? Common definitions of the "standard" LOCAL model tend to be sloppy and even self-contradictory on one point: do the nodes update their state using an arbitrary function or a computable function? So fa...

Another new paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2602.21022

We are looking for Postdoctoral Fellows to join the Helsinki region IT research community.The deadline for applications is March 22nd, 2026 at 11:59 PM (23:59 UTC+02:00) More info in the 🔗
www.hiit.fi/hiit-postdoc... #EarlyCareerResearcher #AcademicSky #postdocposition

Onko tekoäly tietoinen? Elämmekö simulaatiossa? Miksi tekoälylle kannattaa olla ystävällinen? Podcast-studiossa koneen ja ihmisen eroa pohtivat Aalto-yliopiston työelämäprofessori, filosofi Lauri Järvilehto sekä Aalto-yliopiston alumni, scifi-intoilija Suvi Rantonen. youtu.be/11DyWtkR_e8?...

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ELLIS Institute Finland is hiring Principal Investigators in AI + machine learning. World-class resources for research incl. LUMI supercomputer, generous starting package & professorship affiliation with a university in the world’s happiest country! Apply by Jan. 12 ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026

Elites wield huge influence over deepening polarisation –– now we can tell exactly how much | Aalto University Researchers used network theory to develop a method for measuring the impact of individuals on societal division.

New research reveals how a relatively small elite can have a disproportionately large influence on shaping polarising environments.

Read more 👉 www.aalto.fi/en/news/elit...

Webinar: Python on GPUs, how hard can that be?

Curious about speeding up Python with GPUs?
Join the @epicurehpc.bsky.social webinar “Python on GPUs, How Hard Can That Be?” on 28 Nov at 15:00 CET.
Learn:
💡 GPU acceleration with Numba
💡 Avoiding performance pitfalls
💡 Optimization strategies for GPU programming
👉 epicure-hpc.eu/2025/11/19/w...

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

🚀 Accelerate your applications with AMD GPUs!

Join us for a hands-on online training on December 2–4, 2025, from 13:00 to 17:00 CET each day, and learn how to port, optimise, and profile your code for AMD systems such as LUMI.

Read more and register 🔗 www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/events/accel...

Open call

⏰ Still time to apply!
The @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social Extreme Scale Access Call offers top researchers, industry & public sector access to Europe’s most powerful supercomputers – including LUMI 💪

Deadline: 27 October

🔗 eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-call-proposals-extreme-scale-access-mode_en

A person in a grey hoodie with a text box introducing Francesco Croce at ELLIS Institute Finland in front of a blurred background.

Making #machinelearning outcomes stable in the face of strange inputs or malicious attacks: introducing Francesco Croce, one of our 9 new principal investigators & assistant professor at @aalto.fi.

www.ellisinstitute.fi/meet-our-new...
@ellis.eu @csaalto.bsky.social

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025 The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We are #hiring Postdoctoral Fellows (3 years) or Research Fellows (5 years) for researchers in ICT. Find out more information in the 🔗 www.hiit.fi/hiit-postdoc... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky #Research #postdocjobs #postdoc

🏹 Job alert: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Health Data Science

📍Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
📅 Apply by July 7th
🔗 More info: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/12591

❄️ SMEs & startups - @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social's 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘐 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 call is open – it’s free of charge for industry users, including SMEs and startups!

🗓️ Next cut-off date: 30 June 2025

🔗 Read more and apply now: www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/access-calls...

#eurohpc #hpc #ai

Open call for European researchers

@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social has opened a continuous call for proposals for AI for science and collaborative EU projects focusing on ethical AI, Machine Learning, foundation Models, Generative AI and LLMs. 
Next cut-off date: June 20 
➡️ www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/call-for-ai-...
#ai #machinelearning #llm

🏹 Job alert: PhD/postdoc positions in Scientific Foundation Models at the University of Liège (Belgium)

📍 Liège 🇧🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/43SJtUG

Here is a poster with an overview of distributed quantum stuff we have been doing…

1/5 🌟 Our latest peer-reviewed research bridges psychology and AI/reinforcement learning (RL)! We explore how AI models of intrinsic motivation can formalise the "need for competence" in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a very popular theory of human motivation. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07423.

Machine learning models must keep up with the changing world | University of Helsinki Life Science Informatics Professor Indrė Žliobaitė develops computational methods that are explainable, trustworthy, and robust to change. With these methods, it is possible to analyse and understand ...

Life Science Informatics Professor Indrė Žliobaitė says Machine learning models must keep up with the changing world. www.helsinki.fi/en/news/arti... @univhelsinkics.bsky.social

100 frågor om AI I  100 frågor om AI får du tydliga och lättbegripliga svar på vanliga frågor om AI. Vad är AI? Kan AI fatta bättre beslut än vi människo...

The Swedish edition of my AI book, "100 frågor om AI" ("100 questions about AI"), has been published today by Natur & Kultur.

Stort tack till Linda Mannila för den suveräna översättningen och bearbetningen av boken – det har varit ett nöje att samarbeta!

www.nok.se/titlar/larom...

🏹 Job alert: Tenure-Track Position for Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence at @jku.at. Opening is at the Institute for Symbolic AI for female candidates w/ PhD.

📍 Linz 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by: May 28
🔗 More info: bit.ly/3H2GDVk

#AIJobs

Photo of four persons in front of a sign saying "Mordor". One of the persons is holding flowers and another one is holding an ice cream.

We went to Mordor and all we got were flowers and ice cream.

Bayesian workflow group was a runner-up in Aalto Open Science Award 2024. The current and past group members running-up in alphabetical order: Alejandro Catalina, Anna Riha, Asael Alonzo Matamoros, David Kohns, ...

🚀 CSC is hiring AI Specialists for the LUMI AI Factory!
Passionate about AI & supercomputing for real-world impact? Join us to support users, deliver training, and work on projects using modern deep learning models on LUMI ❄️

➡️Read more and apply by May 28 www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/open-positio...

Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak's slides from Frontier Friday here:
algorithms.fi/frontier-fri...

Astronomers observe largest ever sample of galaxies up to over 12 billion light years away | Aalto University New observations give researchers unique insight into how galaxies have evolved since the universe was under a billion years old.

Our researchers are part of an international consortium whose latest study provides unprecedented insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies. Read more about the findings here: www.aalto.fi/en/news/astr...

HIIT Foundations Friday on 23 May 2025! Corinna Coupette gives a talk on "TCS for Law: Toward a Computational Theory of Legal Systems", more information here: research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

Aalto computer scientists in CHI 2025 | Aalto University Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

For even more human-computer interaction research from Aalto, including conversational AIs for migrants and privacy perceptions of custom GPTs, check out www.aalto.fi/en/news/aalt...
cc @aaltotechsperts.bsky.social @icthiit.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social #CHI2025

Have you thought that in computer memory model weights are given in terms of discrete values in any case. Thus, why not do probabilistic inference on the discrete (quantized) parameters. @trappmartin.bsky.social is presenting our work at #AABI2025 today. [1/3]

Interested in working on (computational) intrinsic motivation x design x architecture? A really cool PhD project coming up - UK residents only and supervised by @christophsalge.bsky.social! Ah, and I'll be co-supervising :) All info below - many opportunities to fit in your profile and ideas.