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About HICT

The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT) is a collaborative doctoral education network hosted jointly by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities within this area in Finland.

Research areas

  • Algorithms and machine learning
  • Life science informatics
  • Networks, networked systems and services
  • Software and service engineering and systems
  • User centered and creative technologies

Admissions

HICT has two open calls for fully-funded doctoral student positions each year.

Recent theses

  • Advances in Analysing Temporal Data
  • Exploring classifier attribute interactions and time series using constrained randomisations
  • Unsupervised Networks, Stochasticity and Optimization in Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning for Small Molecule Identification

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What's new?

Jun 22

HICT Autumn Call 2017 is open! Apply now!

HICT call is now open! The deadline for applications is July 30, 2017 at midnight Finnish time. Please, apply through the application form. More information and instructions from: http://www.hict.fi/autumn_2017  

Feb 16

HICT Spring 2017 call is open!

HICT call is now open! The deadline for applications is March 5, 2017 at midnight Finnish time. Please, apply through the application form. More information and instructions from: http://www.hict.fi/spring2017

Aug 05

HICT Autumn call with strong international interest

The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT) received a total of 84 applications in its recent doctoral student call. Over 90% of the applicants were of non-Finnish origin representing 23 nationalities. ...