Timo Honkela - Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

• Date of birth: 4th of August, 1962
• Place of birth: Kalajoki, Finland
• Nationality: Finnish

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Education

29th of December, 1989	Master of Science	University of Oulu
28th of January, 1998	Doctor of Philosophy	Helsinki University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dissertation "Self-Organizing Maps in Natural Language Processing"

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Academic and Work Career

Aug 2006-	Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Computer and Information Science Adaptive Informatics Research Center	Chief Research Scientist
Sep 2004-	University of Helsinki	Docent, language technology
Apr 2004-	University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Lab	Docent, knowledge engineering, particularly epistemological, cognitive and social modeling in interaction design
Aug 2003- Jul 2005	Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Computer and Information Science	Professor (pro tem)
July 2003- June 2008	Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Computer and Information Science	Docent, computational modeling of language and cognition
Jan 2003- Jul 2003	Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Computer and Information Science	Teaching researcher
Oct 2002- Dec 2002	Helsinki University of Technology Neural Networks Research Centre	Researcher
2002	University of Helsinki, Cognitive Science	Qualified for Full Professorship
2002	University of Tampere, Information Research	Qualified for Full Professorship
2001-2002	Gurusoft Oy, Espoo	Chief Scientist
2000-2001	Gurusoft Oy, Espoo	Managing Director
1998-2000	University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Lab	Professor, Applied Cognitive and Information Processing Science
1995-98	Helsinki University of Technology Neural Networks Research Centre	Researcher
1990-1995	VTT Information Technology	Research scientist
1989-1990	VTKK Tietopalvelu Oy	Systems engineer
1984, 1985, 1986, 1987-1989	Sitra, Kielikone project	Researcher
1984 1985-1987	University of Oulu	Teaching assistant and lecturer

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Selected Invited Talks

• Invited talk ``Issues in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning'', N.S.R.C. ``Demokritos'', Athens, Greece, June 6, 2006

• Invited talk ``Emergence of Implicit and Explicit Categories'', International Conference on Learning and Concept Formation, Lund, Sweden, June 14, 2003.

• Invited talk ``Visionary Solutions for Knowledge Management'', International eGovernment Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 31, 2001.

• Invited talk ``Self-Organizing Narration''. Interactive Institute, Malmö, Sweden, May 31, 2000.

• Keynote talk ``Learning, Intuitive and Creative Computers'', International Cumulus Conference, Helsinki, May 26, 2000.

• Invited talk ``Self-Organizing Maps and Case-Based Reasoning'', IJCAI'99 affiliate event Networks'99, Espoo, Finland, Aug 10, 2000.

• Invited talk ``Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps in Intelligent Systems Development'', FODO'98 Conference (Fundamentals of Data Organization), Kobe, Japan, Nov 12, 2000.

• Invited talk ``Connectionism and Pragmatics''. International symposium on Philosophy of Language, University of Turku, Nov 6, 1999.

• Invited talk ``Emerging categories and adaptive prototypes: self-organizing maps for linguistic categorization'', University of Cologne, Germany, Oct 31, 1997.

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Leaderships and Memberships in Scientific Organizations

Leaderships

• International Federation on Information Processing (IFIP), WG12.1 (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning), chair, 2004-

• International Federation on Information Processing (IFIP), TC12 (Artificial Intelligence), Representative of Finland, 2000-

• Nordic Interactive (research network organization), Constituting Board Member, 1998-2000

• Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association, vice chair, 2004-

• Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society, founding member, chair 1996-98, board member 1995, 1999

Memberships

• International Cognitive Science Society

• Finnish Society for Computer Science

• Linguistic Association of Finland,

• Philosophical Society of Finland

• Finnish Society of Psychology

• Brain Research Society of Finland

• Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association

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