Heikki Olavi Mannila (born 4 January 1960 in

Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...

) is a Finnish

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

, the president of the

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.''Kuka kukin on 2007'', p. 585. Helsinki 2006. Mannila earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...

under the supervision of

Esko Ukkonen Esko Juhani Ukkonen (b. 1950) is a Finnish theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to string algorithms, and particularly for Ukkonen's algorithm for suffix tree construction. He is a professor emeritus of the University of He ...

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. 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 Sequential pattern mining is a topic of data mining concerned with finding statistically relevant patterns between data examples where the values are delivered in a sequence. It is usually presumed that the values are discrete, and thus time serie ...

. 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 Elina Haavio-Mannila (born 3 August 1933) is a Finnish social scientist and Professor ''Emerita'' of Sociology at the University of Helsinki where she served as the Docent of Sociology (1965–1971), Assistant Professor (1971–1992), and Professor ...

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External links

Heikki Mannila's university home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mannila, Heikki 1960 births Living people University of Helsinki alumni Finnish computer scientists Data miners Machine learning researchers Academic staff of the University of Helsinki