Heikki Olavi Mannila (born 4 January 1960 in

Espoo Espoo (, ; ) is a city in Finland. It is located to the west of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. Espoo is part of the Helsi ...

) is a Finnish

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

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under the supervision of Esko Ukkonen 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

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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 Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and ...

, and has published highly cited papers on

association rule learning Association rule learning is a rule-based machine learning method for discovering interesting relations between variables in large databases. It is intended to identify strong rules discovered in databases using some measures of interestingness.P ...

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.

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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