Academic

Nokia produces in a year more than 500 million mobile devices with rich communication, media and sensing capabilities. In addition to the device manufacturing being significant logistics operations producing terabytes of data, Nokia's emerging services, software and content platforms result in various streams of diverse data.

Data Insight team in Nokia Research Center Palo Alto focusing on the challenges and opportunities of such data. The team's approach combines the theoretical foundations of data analysis and computer science to hands-on skills on rapid development of scalable systems with practical relevance. The research topics include scalable mining of services and manufacturing, adaptivity in mobile terminals, and massively distributed information processing and collective mining in the planetary-scale networks of people and devices.

The Data Insight team is seeking researchers on data mining, machine learning, search engines, data visualization and scalable computing, ranging from fresh postdocs to most experienced research fellows. If you have excellent conceptual and theoretical skills in computer science and data analysis, interest to apply the skills in new contexts, strong problem solving skills and ability and urge to make impact beyond publications, promising results and toy examples, do not hesitate to contact us (email: Taneli.Mielikainen@nokia.com).

Scalable Data Processing: You have deep understanding in distributed computing and scalable data management systems in practice and in theory and excellent hand-on skills to realize your ideas and joint goals. You have a strong passion for programming, excellent coding skills and deep knowledge on programming paradigms and languages, such as Python, Erlang, C, Ocaml, and so on. Contributions to Open Source projects, especially in the field of scalable systems, form a big plus.

Data Mining: You have extensive expertise in machine learning and data mining in theory and in practice. You are motivated to take your research beyond data mining and machine learning, and creating usable prototype systems spurs you. You enjoy the art of programming and are able and keen in expressing your ideas fluently in variety of programming languages, such as C, Python, Haskell, Erlang and R. You are able explain and challenge different paradigms of data analysis and rethink even the foundations when needed.

Visual analytics: You have exceptional ability to transform seemingly chaotic information in complex datasets computational models to engaging and informative visualizations and other representations. You are eager to push traditional limits of information visualization by producing unique representations of unique data sources together with the team. In many cases that requires also theoretical insights to mathematical properties of high-dimensional data spaces. You are able and enthusiastic to implement even your most far-fetching ideas in practice, thus strong technical expertise with visualization tools and programming languages is a must.

See http://discoproject.org/openings.html for additional details.

Contact:
Taneli.Mielikainen@nokia.com