General information

Dr. Juha Karhunen is Professor of Computer Science (half-time, specification area: Neural networks and signal processing) in the Aalto University School of Science (in Finnish: Aalto yliopisto, Perustieteiden korkeakoulu), located near Helsinki in Espoo, Finland. The Aalto University was formed 1st January 2010 by merging Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT) with two smaller universities.

Juha Karhunen is working in the Department of Information and Computer Science. He belonged up to the end of 2011 to the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, which was one of the research Centers of Excellence of the Academy of Finland.

Contact information

Prof. Juha Karhunen
Aalto Univ. School of Science
Department of Information and Computer Science

Mail address: P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto
Espoo, FINLAND

Street address: Room B327, Computer Science Building
Konemiehentie 2, 02150 Espoo, FINLAND.

Mobile: +358-400-817 276
Fax. +358-9-8550 114

E-mail juha.karhunen@aalto.fi

Career

Curriculum vitae
A complete List of publications. See the 'Publications' subpage for publications available in electronic form.

Lecture or seminar courses at HUT and Aalto University

- Lecture course Machine Learning and Neural Networks, lectured for the first time in November-December 2007, and then yearly at the same time. Belongs to our department's international Macadamia M.Sc. study programme.

Graduate courses on varying topics:
- In spring 2009, a seminar course on Nature-Inspired Computing
- In spring 2006, a lecture course on Independent Component Analysis.
- In spring 2004, a seminar course on Information Theory and Machine Learning.
- In spring 2003, a seminar course on Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods.

Memberships in scientific organizations

Senior member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
Member of the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland. Also member of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition).
Formerly member of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), and Blind DSP Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Memberships in editorial boards of journals

Member of the editorial board of Neurocomputing, 1997-2004.
Member of the editorial board of Neural Processing Letters, 1999-2003; again 2008-.

ICA book

Hyvärinen, A., Karhunen, J., and Oja, E., Independent Component Analysis. J. Wiley 2001, 481+xxii pages.

See the homepage of this comprehensive textbook for more information and ordering instructions, as well as for a Japanese translation (2005) and Chinese translation (2007).