Ilkka Niemelä
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U900 Leadership, joint units
llkka Niemelä, D.Sc. (Tech.), (b. 1961) has served as Professor of Computer Science at Helsinki University of Technology, Head of the Laboratory for Theoretical Computer Science, and Chair of the Degree programme in Computer Science and Engineering. The research group led by Niemelä has developed new methods for automated reasoning and constraint programming for solving challenging computational problems and explored various applications related to these methods. He has served as Dean of the Aalto University School of Science, as the University’s Vice President responsible for academic affairs, as Provost and as Deputy President. His international experience covers several visiting positions in different universities and research institutes and he holds several academic positions of trust.
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Email
[email protected]
Phone number
+358505113013
Honors and awards
Superior of the year at Helsinki University of Technology
Superior of the year at Helsinki University of Technology 2007 (Teknillisen korkeakoulun vuoden esimies 2007).
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference, COIN
Jan 2007
The annual dissertation award of the Finnish Society for Computer Science for a distinguished doctoral dissertation in Computer Science
The annual dissertation award of the Finnish Society for Computer Science for a<br/>distinguished doctoral dissertation in Computer Science in 1993.
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference, COIN
Jan 1993
Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland, 2015
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Jan 2015
20 Year Test of Time Paper Award
20 Year Test of Time Paper Award, International Conference on Logic Programming, for the article “Efficient Implementation of the Well-founded and Stable Model Semantics”
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Oct 2016
EurAI Fellow
The EurAI (European Association for Artificial Intelligence) Fellows Program honors only a very small percentage of the total membership of all EurAI member societies (up to a maximum of 3%).
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Leadership, joint units
Aug 2013
Research groups
- Computer Science Professors, Professor
Publications
Applying Visible Strong Equivalence in Answer-Set Program Transformations
Jori Bomanson, Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä
2020
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
The Answer Set Programming Paradigm
Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä
2016
AI Magazine
Cumulativity Tailored for Non-Monotonic Reasoning
Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä
2015
Advances in Knowledge Representation, Logic Programming, and Abstract Argumentation, Leipzig, Germany, February 4, 2015
Introducing Real Variables and Integer Objective Functions to Answer Set Programming
Guohua Liu, Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä
2014
International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2013, Kiel, 11-13 September, 2013
Bounded Model Checking of an MITL Fragment for Timed Automata
Roland Kindermann, Tommi Junttila, Ilkka Niemelä
2013
13th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD), July 8-10, Barcelona, Spain
Simulating Parity Reasoning
Tero Laitinen, Tommi Junttila, Ilkka Niemelä
2013
19th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, LPAR-19, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 15-19th December 2013
Translating Answer-Set Programs into Bit-Vector Logic
Mai Nguyen, Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä
2013
19th International Conference, INAP 2011 and 25th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2011, Vienna, September 28-30, 2011
Solving Parity Games by a Reduction to SAT
Keijo Heljanko, Misa Keinänen, Martin Lange, Ilkka Niemelä
2012
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Applying Visible Strong Equivalence in Answer-Set Program Transformations
Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä
2012
Correct Reasoning - Essays on Logic-Based AI in Honour of Vladimir Lifschitz
Beyond Lassos: Complete SMT-Based Bounded Model Checking for Timed Automata
Roland Kindermann, Tommi Junttila, Ilkka Niemelä
2012
FMOODS FORTE IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (FMOODS/FORTE 2012) FMOODS FORTE, Stockholm, Sweden, June 13-16, 2012