The new centre brings together top researchers and companies to develop new applications and possibilities for artificial intelligence
What is House of AI
Aalto University established a multidisciplinary House of AI centre in 2024 to accelerate scientific research and practical applications in the field of artificial intelligence. The establishment of the centre was made possible by a EUR 3.2 million donation to Aalto University by the Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation.
With the House of AI, Aalto University's artificial intelligence research aims at even more comprehensive collaboration with other disciplines and industry. The multidisciplinary and long-term expertise of the university and its international networks in technology, art, and business provide a strong foundation for the development and application of artificial intelligence. The core of the House of AI's activities is high-quality scientific research and close collaboration between researchers and companies.
Aalto University has very strong expertise and networks in AI research. Aalto coordinates the extensive activities of the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) and plays an important role in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) network.
Thematic Areas
The center is organized around thematic areas and conducts rapid piloting in promising collaborative areas, offers a multidisciplinary community for researchers. Thematic areas contain sub-projects of targeted focus. Currently House of AI has the following thematic areas:
Theme 1: The Sustainability and trustworthy electrical energy grid explores and develops forecasting and control possibilities for electricity production and demand, adaptability and security of electricity systems, and market mechanisms for future electricity energy systems. The project combines economics, electrical energy engineering, and artificial intelligence research in an exceptional way, with questions that are interconnected and all of which are at a very high level at Aalto. We have particularly good conditions for conducting research: Finland's electricity energy system is a pioneer in the use of renewable energy, and detailed data on electricity consumption is available to us. Main contact: professor Heikki Mannila.
Theme 2: The AI for sustainability solutions in the manufacturing industry works in close collaboration with the leading industry partners to accelerate product development and testing. Main contact: professor Heikki Mannila.
Theme 3: In the AI in health and wellbeing focuses on the multi-disciplinary activities on computational modeling, data analysis and design of biological systems. The area covers the development of original machine learning methods and their applications in collaboration with leading national and international experts in different branches of life sciences. The research area is linked to health-related research programmes in HIIT and FCAI, and Aalto key research areas of Health and Wellbeing as well as Materials and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources. Main contact: professor Juho Rousu.
The thematic areas have the common characteristics:
For companies
House of AI encourages collaborative projects between Aalto researchers and companies in its thematic areas. We are especially looking for collaborations in areas where collaboration between Aalto researchers from different disciplines and companies contributes to sustainability challenges and competitiveness of Finnish industries. Main contact: professor Heikki Mannila.
For researchers
We are looking for postdoctoral researchers to work in our thematic areas. If you are interested in working in a highly multidisciplinary environment within the House of AI, send us an application. Please see the call announcement for instructions how to apply.
The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI is a research hub initiated by Aalto University, the University of Helsinki, and the Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT. The goal of FCAI is to develop new types of artificial intelligence that can work with humans in complex environments, and help modernize Finnish industry. FCAI is one of the national flagships of the Academy of Finland.
