Dr. Emilia Oikarinen

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Office:

Room B356, Computer Science Building, Otaniemi
(Contact info)

Telephone:

+358 50 430 1461

Email:

firstname.lastname@aalto.fi

My Google Scholar profile

Research

My most recent research involves application of data mining methods on e.g. fossil data and studying equivalence relations for abstract argumentation frameworks. Overall I'm interested in constraint-based reasoning methods (in particular, but not limited to, nonmonotonic reasoning, answer set programming, aspects of modularity and equivalence, ...), algorithmic data mining, and combinations of the topics.

Starting from August 2010 I have worked as postdoctoral researcher at Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University. Currently, I'm working on a Academy of Finland funded post-doctoral project "Constraint-Based Reasoning for Data Mining" (Sep. 2011-Aug. 2014). I'm affiliated with Computational Logic Group and have also a collaboration with Data Mining Group.

Between Jan.-July 2010, I worked as postdoctoral researcher at Algorithmic Data Analysis (Algodan) Centre of Excellence at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT/ Department of Computer Science at University of Helsinki.

During the years 2001-2009 I worked on Academy of Finland funded projects: Methods for Constructing and Solving Large Constraint Models (2007-2009), Advanced Constraint Programming Techniques for Large Structured Problems (2005-2007), and Applications of Rule-Based Constraint Programming (2002-2005).

Publications

A complete list of my publications with downloadable papers and bibtex entries is available organized by type and by year.
An (incomplete) listing of my publications is available also at DBLP .

Most recent papers

• Convergence in the distribution patterns of Europe's plants and mammals is due to environmental forcing. Journal of Biogeography, 2012
• Characterizing strong equivalence for argumentation frameworks. Artif. Intell. 175(14-15), 2011
• The living and the fossilised: how well do unevenly distributed points capture the faunal information in a grid?, Evolutionary Ecology Research, 2010.

Professional Activities

Organization

• Publicity chair of JELIA 2010, 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, September 13-15, 2010, Helsinki, Finland
• Coordinator for Information and Computer Science Forum (ICS Forum) from August to December 2009

Program Committees

• PC member of 5th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2012), Budabest, Hungary, September 4, 2012.
• PC member of 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2012), Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2012.
• Senior PC member of Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), Barcelona, Spain, July 16-22, 2011.
• PC member of 27th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2011), Lexington, Kentucky USA, July 6-10, 2011.
• PC member of 4th Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2011), Lexington, Kentucky USA, July 10, 2011.
• PC member of of 1st Workshop on Grounding and Transformations for Theories with Variables (GTTV 2011), Vancouver, Canada, May 2011.
• PC member of Twenty-Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11-15, 2010.
• PC member of 3rd Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2010), Edinburgh, UK, July 20, 2010.
• PC member of 4th International Workshop on Answer Set Programming (ASP 2007), Porto, Portugal, September 8 and 13, 2007.
• PC member of Workshop on Correspondence and Equivalence for Nonmonotonic Theories (CENT 2007), Tempe, Arizona, USA, May 14-16, 2007.

Reviewing

• Artificial Intelligence: 2012
• AI Communications: 2010
• Mathematical Reviews (MR): 2009 - 2012
• ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL): 2010, 2009
• Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP): 2008
• Journal of Logic and Computation (JLC): 2008

• International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR): 2012
• Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2011
• International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM): 2011
• International Conference on Logic Programming and Non Monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR): 2011, 2005
• European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA): 2010, 2008, 2004
• International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR): 2008
• International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP): 2005, 2004
• Answer Set Programming: Advances in Theory and Implementation (ASP): 2005
• International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR): 2005

Awards

• Best Student Paper award at ICLP 2007, 23rd International Conference on Logic Programming
• Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2007 finalist
• Helsinki University of Technology Master's Thesis award 2004

Funding

• Post-doctoral research grant for project "Constraint-Based Reasoning for Data Mining", Academy of Finland, Sep. 2011-Aug. 2014
• Aalto University School of Science and Technology postdoc project "Compositional Nonmonotonic Constraints for Building and Reasoning about Large Knowledge Bases", Aug. 2010-(July 2013)
• Funded graduate school position for Jan. 2004-Dec. 2007, Helsinki Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering (HeCSE)

Grants

• Grant for doctoral studies, Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion TES, 2008 and 2006
• Grant for doctoral studies, Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 2007
• Grant for doctoral studies, Kainuu Foundation of Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2006 and 2005
• Nokia Scholarship, Nokia Foundation, 2004

List of events participated

Teaching

Courses lectured (responsible teacher for)

• T-79.4101 Discrete Models and Search, Spring 2011
• T-79.1001/2 Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science T/Y , Autumn 2009

Teaching assistant

• T-79.3001 Logic in Computer Science: Foundations, Spring 2008, 2007, 2006 /
  T-79.144 Logic in Computer Science: Foundations, Autumn 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
• T-79.1001 Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science T, Autumn 2007, 2006 /
  T-79.148 Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science, Spring 2005, Autumn 2004, Spring 2002.
• T-79.1002 Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science Y, Autumn 2007, 2006.
• T-79.5102 Special Course in Computational Logic, Autumn 2005.
• T-79.161 Combinatorial Algorithms, Spring 2005, 2004, 2003.
• Mat-1.4xx Basic Course in Mathematics P1/P2/C1/C3, Autumn 1999 - Autumn 2001.

Instruction of thesis

• Mai Nguyen, Preferential Optimization of University Students' Timetables, Master's thesis, January 2012

Pedagogical Studies

• Pedagogical Course for University Level Teachers in Engineering and Natural Sciences (YOOP), approx. 22.5 ETCS, completed in October 2004.