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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

What do the students think?

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What's new?

Apr 19

New HICT workshop: poster presentation skills (1 ECTS)

Registration is open for the HICT course: poster presentation skills (1 ECTS). Read the full description of the training at: https://www.hict.fi/HICT_posterworkshop2018 and register now!

Dec 15

HICT Spring call 2018 is open!

HICT Spring call 2018 is now open! We have over 20 open positions and interesting research projects for exceptional doctoral students! The deadline for applications is January 31, 2018 at midnight Finnish time. Please, apply through the application f...

Nov 01

New HICT workshop: pitching and presentation skills for doctoral candidates and researchers (1 ECTS) - Register now!

HICT, the Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology, organizes a science communication workshop for HICT doctoral students and researchers in Aalto University and the University of Helsinki on Monday 4th of Dece...