The new unit in the light of slightly rounded numbers is following: 400 staff members, out of which 50 professors and 50 full time teachers, 2000 enrolled students, 300 courses, 200 master graduates, 150 research projects, 500 scientific publications, and a lot of coffee per year. Despite the impressive numbers, the most important fact is our brilliant staff that makes all of this happen. Following the slogan of our university we are the human potential unlimited – the influence on the industry, society and scientific community that the previous units established and which we want to bring further in the new CS.
We are organized as 15 CS teams according to the expertise areas that span across the other units in the faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences. The goal was a flat and flexible organization that supports mobility and multi-disciplinary research projects, as well as teaching organized as teamwork across campuses and different fields. We are also at the forefront of digitalizing our own operations, for example offering more education independent of time and place, and serving degree students as well as life long learning and open university participants. Mastering data, AI and human factors on top of mathematical and computational thinking in one unit is a great opportunity to open new research fronts and take leading role in changing world.
In the CS blog you will find interesting posts on the persons behind research and teaching, stories on the projects, news on the events and results, and generally discussion on what happens around. Welcome to enjoy and stay current with CS!
Timo D. Hämäläinen
Head of Computing Sciences
