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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?

Mar 11

HICT S5 - Scientific Symposium of the Students, by the Students, for the Students

HICT students from Aalto CS, COMNET and University of Helsinki CS proudly present the very first: HICT S5 - Scientific Symposium of the Students, by the Students, for the Students 25th of April, 2019 REGISTER YOUR TALK OR POSTER NOW AND READ M...

Sep 24

HICT PItch & Pizza competition event on 7th Nov, 2018!

HICT the Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology, proudly presents:   ***HICT Pitch & Pizza competition event*** When: 7th November, 2018 between 16.00-18.00 Where: CS building Library (Kon...

Sep 19

HICT half-day workshop: pitching and presentation skills (1 ECTS)

HICT half-day workshop: pitching and presentation skills for doctoral candidates and researchers (1 ECTS) How to increase the wider societal impact of ICT-related research? How to communicate your research to different audiences? What is include...