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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?

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...

May 25

HICT Summer Pizza Party for doctoral students and postdocs

HICT SUMMER PIZZA PARTY Do you like pizza and cake? Are you a Postdoc researcher or a PhD student looking to meet others like you in Computer Science? Look no further with the support of HICT we have combined the two! Come meet other PhD stu...