Heikki Olavi Mannila (born 4 January 1960 in Espoo) is a Finnish computer scientist, the president of the Academy of Finland.Kuka kukin on 2007, p. 585. Helsinki 2006.
Mannila earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Helsinki under the supervision of Esko UkkonenMathematical genealogy of Heikki Mannila from the International Association for Cryptologic Research, retrieved 2012-02-25. and for many years he was a professor at the University of Helsinki himself. From 2004 to 2008 he was Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland. He became Vice President for Academic Affairs at Aalto University in 2009, and was appointed by the Finnish government as president of the Academy of Finland for a term lasting from 2012 to 2017.Heikki Mannila appointed as President of the Academy of Finland , Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, December 19, 2011, retrieved 2012-02-25.Heikki Mannila takes office as President of the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki Computer Science Department, retrieved 2012-02-25. The appointment was renewed for the period 2017–2022.
Mannila is known for his research in data mining, and has published highly cited papers on association rule learning. . . and sequence mining.. With David Hand and Padhraic Smyth, he is the co-author of the book Principles of Data Mining (MIT Press, 2001).Review of Principles of Data Mining, Ashish P Sanil (2003), J. Amer. Stat. Assoc. 98 (461): 252–253, .
Heikki Mannila is son to the professor Elina Haavio-Mannila.
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External links Heikki Mannila's university home page