Jyrki Kivinen

Jyrki Kivinen received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from University of Helsinki in 1989 and 1992, respectively. After graduation, he held various teaching and research appointments at the University of Helsinki, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University in 2000-2003. Since 2003, he has been a professor of computer science at University of Helsinki. His scientific interests include machine learning and algorithms theory. He was a program co-chair for COLT 2002 and ALT 2011, president of the Association for Computational Learning 2004-2006, local arrangements chair for COLT 2008 and general chair for COLT 2012.