School of Computing - News

A new project launched at the university focuses on the teaching of matrix and linear algebra as a single entity and produces content that is suitable for the needs of different academic subjects as extensively as possible.

Funding granted by the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering to UEF researchers amounts to more than 2.1 million euros.

“Photonics is about light: we create, modify, observe and move light from one place to another,” Head of the Institute of Photonics, Professor Jyrki Saarinen says.

The University of Eastern Finland has received EU funding to recruit 14 doctoral students into a four-year multidisciplinary Neuro-Innovation PhD programme, which will be implemented on the Kuopio campus.

Maiju Karjalainen graduated from UEF's and Toyohashi University of Technology’s (TUT) joint Master’s degree programme last autumn. The double degree included studies and an opportunity to do an internship in Japan.

MSc Thomas Ho Chee Tat used in his thesis multi-agent systems to simulate real-world environment such as car drivers by making smart artificial driver agents to simulate traffic in road networks.

A new project launched at the faculty aims to enhance the supervision and well-being of postgraduate students, and to clarify the process experienced by postgraduate students.

According to Professor of Speech Technology Tomi Kinnunen, the role of machine learning and data will grow in all sectors in the future.

External funding has given a boost to the development of research and education in the forest-based bioeconomy and medical computing alike.

The University of Eastern Finland’s doctoral conferment ceremony at the Kuopio Campus is postponed to 9–11 June 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.