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Vice-rector
Kaisa Miettinen
- I am Vice-rector in charge of research and doctoral
education at the University of
Jyväskylä
- I am the head of the thematic research area at the
University of Jyväskyä called DEMO - Decision Analytics
utilizing Causal Models and Multiobjective Optimization
- My primary field of research is multiobjective
optimization and decision support
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Recent
Recognitions and News Research
Interests Acknowledgements Activities Positions of Trust Scientific Tasks as an Expert
Invited Honorary Presentations
Supervision Societies Software Miscellaneous
Recent
Recognitions and News
Research
Interests
- Methods,
theory and applications of multiobjective
optimization
- Interactive methods for multiobjective
optimization; recording of my
tutorial given in the DEMO Seminar at the University of
Jyväskylä in 2021
- Software
for multiobjective optimization and its usability. My own contributions
are WWW-NIMBUS (the first interactive
software for multiobjective optimization operating on the Internet) and IND-NIMBUS (for industrial
problems) and open source software framework DESDEO
- Multiple
criteria decision making
- Data-driven decision support and decision (prescriptive) analytics
- Mathematical
programming (including nonlinear and global optimization, e.g., genetic
algorithms and hybrid methods)
Special Scientific
Awards and Acknowledgements
- The Finnish Operations Research Society appointed me as the OR
Person of the Year in the autumn 2023 as a recognition of my long-term
efforts in advancing the use and the recognizability of operations
research in Finland
- The Faculty of Information Technology at the University of
Jyväskylä awarded me with its medal of honor in its 25 years
anniversary celebration in the autumn 2023 as a recognition for my
groundbreaking achievements in developing methods for multiple
criteria decision support
- The Board of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
has appointed me as a member of the Steering Group of the Publication
Forum for the period 2024-2027
- I have been elected as the chair of the University Collegium for
the term 2022-2025
- I have been appointed as the chair of Panel 1, Mathematics and
Statistics of the
Finnish Publication Forum
for the term 2022-2025
- I have been elected as the chair of the University Collegium for 2021
- I have been selected as the vice-chairman of the Mathematics and
Computer Science Group of
the Finnish Academy of Science and
Letters for the term 2019-2023
- I was appointed to be Jyväskylä's first Congress
Ambassador for the term 2018-2019
- Information
about the appointment
- University's
internal bulletin about the appointment
- I have been appointed as the chair of Panel 1, Mathematics and
Statistics of the
Finnish Publication Forum
for the term 2018-2021
- On July 13, 2017, I received
the Georg Cantor Award of the International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
- On August 6, 2015, I received
the MCDM Presidential Service Award of the International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
- I was invited to be a member of
the Finnish Academy of Science
and Letters, Section of Science, on April
11, 2014
- Jyväskylä Convention
Bureau awarded MCDM2011 for the Marketing Act of the
Conference Year 2011 on November 9, 2011
- On June 16, 2011, I received the
MCDM Conference Chairmanship Award of the International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
- On April 14, 2010, I received a
recognition from the MASI - Modeling and
Simulation programme
of Tekes (the
Finnish funding agency for innovation) for successful
leadership of the project "Multiobjective Optimization and
Multidisciplinary Decision Support", for creating an inspiring
atmosphere among the research groups and for active participation in the
MASI programme
- On December 14, 2009, I was
awarded the Väisälä
Award of the Finnish Academy of
Science and Letters in the field of mathematics for my research
achievements
- I was chosen as the Researcher
of the Year at Helsinki School of Economics in 2007
Activities and Projects
- I am director of the thematic research area Decision Analytics
utilizing Causal Models and Multiobjective Optimization
- I am principal investigator of the project Decision Support with
Interactive Advanced Data-Enabled Multiobjective Optimization
Systems, DESIDES, funded by the Academy of Finland, 2023-2027
- I am principal investigator in the part of the University of
Jyvaskyla in the consortium UTOPIA funded by the Academy of Finland, 2023-2025
- I am principal investigator of the project Data-Driven Decision
Support with Multiobjective Optimization, DAEMON, funded by the
Academy of Finland, 2019-2023
Past:
- I was guest editor of the special issue of Mathematical and
Computational Applications in 2023 (on the occasion of Kalyanmoy Deb's 60th
birthday with Carlos Coello Coello, Eric Goodman, Dish Saxena,
Oliver Schuetze and Lothar Thiele)
- I was guest editor of the special issue of OR Spectrum on
Multicriteria Optimization and Decision Support in Industry 44(2),
2022 (with
Karl-Heintz Kuefer, Stefan Ruzika and Serpil
Sayin)
- I was guest editor of the special issue of the Journal of Global
Optimization on Global Multiobjective Optimization 80(1), 2021 (with Serpil
Sayin)
- I was principal investigator the project Decision Support for
Computationally Demanding Optimization Problems (DESDEO), funded by the Academy
of Finland, 2015-2019
- I was guest editor of the special issue of Journal of Global
Optimization on Global Optimization with Multiple Criteria: theory,
Methods and Applications, 75(1), 2019 (with Francisco Ruiz)
- I was guest editor of the special
issue of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing on Evolutionary
Many-Objective Optimization 22(1), 2018 (with Yaochu
Jin and Hisao Ishibushi)
- I was principal investigator of the FiDiPro project Decision Support for
Complex Multiobjective Optimization Problems funded by Tekes,
2015-2017
- I was the track chair of the 2016 IEEE Symposium on
Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making which is a
part of the 2016 IEEE
Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Athens, Greece, December
2016
- I was
guest editor of the special issue of Journal of Global
Optimization devoted to the MCDM2013 conference, 64(1),
2016 (with Jussi Hakanen, Dmitry Podkopaev and Ingrida Steponavice)
- I was a
guest editor of the special issue devoted to the EURO2012 conference published
in the Journal of Global Optimization 60(1), 2014 (with
Adil Baghirov and Gerhard-Willem Weber)
- I was a
guest editor of the special issue devoted to the MCDM2011 conference published
in the Journal of Global Optimization 57(2), 2013 (with Serpil Sayin)
- I was a
guest editor of the Special Issue devoted to the MCDM2009 Conference published
in the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 18(1-2),
2011 (with Gang Gou and Yong Shi)
- I was
the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä
in the SIMPRO project (Computational methods in mechanical engineering
product development) funded by Tekes and
companies (joint project with VTT, Aalto University, Tampere University of
Technology and Lappeenranta University of Technology), 2012-2015.
- I was
the responsible for the multiobjective
optimization part of the project Optimal Joint Production of Ecological
and Economic Values in Forest Landscapes led by Prof. Mikko
Mönkkönen at the University of Jyväskylä
funded by the Academy of Finland, 2011-2014
- I was
the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the
HUBI project funded by Tekes and companies (joint project with VTT), 2011-2013
- I was
the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the
ForestCluster and Tekes funded project POJo (joint
project with Tampere University of Technology, VTT, Aalto University
School of Science and Technology and University of Eastern Finland),
2008-2010 and its follow-up project WP9 (Optimization Structures and
Operation of Entire Production Systems) in the Effnet programme of ForestCluster, 2010-2012 (2013)
- I was
leader in charge of the project 'Strategic Development of Multiobjective
Optimization: Theory and Software' funded by the Academy of Finland,
University of Jyväskylä, 2009-2012
- I have co-chaired four Dagstuhl
seminars in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2012. The last of them I organized together with Salvatore Greco,
Joshua Knowles and Eckart Zitzler in January 2012 on Learning in
Multiobjective Optimization
- I was
the General chair of the 21th International
Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (Jyväskylä, June 2011)
- I was
the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the
Tekes funded project BioScen (joint project with VTT and Aalto University
School of Science and Technology), which was a part of the BioRefine programme,
2008-2011
- I was
the leader in charge (and coordinator) of the joint project "Multiobjective Optimization and Multidisciplinary
Decision Support" (2005-2008). The project belonged to the Finnish
national programme on Modeling and Simulation
(MASI) funded by Tekes, Finnish Funding Agency
for Technology and Innovation and companies
- I was in
charge of the project "NIMBUS - Multiobjective
Optimization in Product Development" at the University of Jyväskylä 2001-2005
- I
organized in December 1996 a Noon2nooN Seminar
on Decision Analysis and Applications for the researchers and postgraduate
students of decision science, group decision making, multiobjective
optimization, information systems and related areas
Scientific Positions
of Trust
- I am member of the University Collegium of the University of
Jyväskylä, 2018-2021, 2022-2025
- I am chair of Panel 1 (Mathematics and Statistics) of the Finnish
Publication Forum, 2018-2021, 2022-2025
- I am vice-chairman of the Mathematics and Computer Science Group of
the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2019-2023
- I have title of docent in
mathematical methods and applications of decision making at the
Aalto University
- I am member of the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society Task Force Group on Multi-Objective
Evolutionary Algorithms, 2014-
- I am a member of the Steering Committee
of EMO (Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization), 2008-
Past:
- I was member of the Steering Group on Datastreams and
Research
Information Assets of Research Administration, Ministry of
Education and Culture, 2017-2020
- I was Immediate-Past President of
the International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making,
2015-2019
- I was President of the
International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
2011-2015
- I was chair of the Science Council of the
University of Jyväskylä, 2012-2017
- I was head of the University of
Jyväskylä Graduate School for Doctoral Studies,
2012-2017
- I was member of the steering
group of the Publication Forum
Project, 2012-2015
- I was member of the OKM-ICT-2015
project group on Information and Communication Technology appointed by the
Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland, 2013-2015
- I was
Chair of EUROPT - The
Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO 2010-2012
- I was a member of the board of
directors of the COMAS Doctoral
Program at the University of Jyväskylä,
2003-2005, 2007-2015
- I was a deputy of the steering
group and member of board of advisors of the Finnish Graduate School in
Computational Sciences (FICS), 2009-2013
- I am a member of the Systems
Analysis Division of the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence,
2006-2009, 2010-2013
- I was a member of the
International Steering Committee of OIPE - Workshop on Optimization and
Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics Series, 2008-2014
- I was
President-Elect of the International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
2008-2011
- I was
the Chair Elect of EUROPT - The
Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO, 2008-2010
- I was the
President of the Finnish Society of
Computational Sciences, 2010 and Vice-president of the
same, 2007-2009
- I was
the Chair of the organizing committee of the IFAC Workshop on
Control Applications of Optimization (Jyväskylä, Finland, May 2009)
- I was a
member of the organizing committee of the 67th Meeting of the European Working
Group "Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding" (Rovaniemi, Finland,
April 2008)
- I was
the President of the Finnish Operations
Research Society in 2002-2003, member of the
board in 2007-2008, 2010-2011, 2013-2014 and a debuty
of the board in 1997-2001, 2004-2006, 2009, 2012
- I was
the secretary of the International
Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
1997-2008
- I was
Member of the Managing Board of EUROPT - The
Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO and Newsletter Editor,
2006-2008
- I was a
member of the Working Group appointed by the Ministry of Education in
Finland for the National Development of Computational Sciences, 2006-2007
- I was a
member of the Support Group for Innovation Activities at the University of
Jyväskylä, 2004-2007
- I was in
charge of quantitative methodologies and methods (in common scientific
doctoral studies in the doctoral program) and the doctoral program in
Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management Science at Helsinki
School of Economics, 2004-2007
- I was a
member of the board of directors of the CMCM Institute (Center
for Mathematical and Computational Modeling) at the University of
Jyväskylä in 1999-2003
- I was a
deputy of the executive group of information management and a deputy of
the board of the Computing Center at the University of Jyväskylä
till 2004
- I was a
member of the local organizing committee of the Eurogen99 Short
Course. It took place
in Jyväskylä in the spring 1999
- I was a
deputy of the board of the Computing Center at the University of
Jyväskylä, 1997-2004
- I was
the coordinator of the EU-Thematic Network INGENET at the
University of Jyväskylä 1997-2003
- In
1992-1997 I was the technical editor of the University of
Jyväskylä, Department of Mathematics, Laboratory of Scientific
Computing, Report Series
Scientific Tasks
as an Expert
Past:
- I was a member of the editorial board of Journal of the
Operational Research Society till 2020
- I was a member of the editorial
board of the journal Metaheuristics
- I gave
invited talks in preparation seminars of the MASI technology program of Tekes
(2004) and the research programme on computational sciences of the Academy
of Finland (2008)
- I was an
editor in chief of the journal IFORS - membership journal of the Finnish
Operations Research Society, 2002-2003
- 14th International Conference on Soft Computing
and Pattern Recognition (plenary), December 2022
- European Women in Mathematics General Meeting 2022 (plenary),
Espoo, Finland, August 2022
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Workshop on Surrogate-Assisted
Evolutionary Optimisation (keynote), Boston, USA, July 2022
- Symposium of Data-Driven Computational Intelligence
(invited honorary talk),
Leiden, the Netherlands, Exeter, Great Britain, June 2022
- Women in Data Science Worldwide Conference,
Alexandria (invited honorary talk), Alexandria+Stanford, June
2022
- 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion
Optimization (tutorial), Shenzhen, China, March 2021
- IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
(WCCI) 2020 (IEEE-CEC keynote), Glasgow, UK, July 2020
- Symposium on Multicriteria
Optimization and Decision Support in Industry (103rd Meeting of
the GOR Working Group "Real World Optimization") (keynote), Kaiserslautern,
Germany, November 2019
- Workshop on Recent Advances in Multi-Objective Optimization
(keynote), Aarhus, Denmark, September 2019
- Lorentz Center Workshop on Many Criteria Optimization and
Decision Analysis (tutorial and plenary), Leiden, the Netherlands,
September 2019
- 5th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization &
Data Science (keynote), Siena, Italy, September 2019
- 10th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion
Optimization (tutorial), East Lansing, USA, March 2019
- International Workshop on Global Optimization (keynote), Leiden,
Holland, September 2018
- 2018 International
Conference on Management Sciences and Decision Making (keynote), New Taipei
City, Taiwan, May 2018
- 9th International Workshop
"Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems" (plenary), Druskininkai,
Lithuania, November-December 2017
- Modeling and
Optimization: Theory and Applications 2017 Conference (plenary), Bethlehem,
USA, August 2017
- 24th
International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (award talk),
Ottawa, Canada, July 2017
-
International Conference on Operations Research - Analytical
Decision Making (semi-plenary), Hamburg, Germany, August-September 2016
-
Bridges Finland 2016:\ Mathematics,
Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture (plenary),
Jyväskylä, Finland, August 2016
- European
Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (plenary),
Ankara, Turkey, September 2015
- 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational
Intelligence, 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in
Multicriteria Decision-Making (keynote), Orlando, USA, December 2014
-
Conference of the Dutch Operations Research Society (tutorial), Lunteren,
Holland, January 2014
- 59th Workshop on Nonlinear Optimization: a Bridge from Theory to
Applications (plenary), Erice, Italy, June 2013
- International Workshop Optimization and Partial Differential
Equations for Industrial Systems (plenary), Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2012
- 17th International Conference on
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis (plenary), Tallinn, Estonia, June
2012
- 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Soft Computing (plenary), Zakopane, Poland, April 2012
- Express One Day Course & Integrated
Multiphysics Simulation & Optimization: An Open Database
Workshop for Multiphysics Optimization Software Validation (plenary), Las
Palmas, Spain, December 2011
- Award talk at the Finnish Society on Science and Letters,
Helsinki, Finland, December 2009
-
Joint Conference X
Finnish Mechanics Days and Database Workshop for Multiphysics
Optimization Software Validation (plenary), Jyväskylä, December
2009
- 20th International
Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (tutorial), Chengdu,
China, June 2009
-
Workshop for Preparation of Research Programme on Computational
Sciences (plenary), Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, August 2008
- International EURO Conference "Continuous Optimization and
Knowledge-Based Technologies" EurOPT-2008 (plenary), Neringa, Lithuania,
May 2008
- HSE Research Day (award talk), Helsinki, Finland, August 2007
- EUROGEN 2007 Conference, Evolutionary and
Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with
Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems (plenary),
Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2007
- 18th International
Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (plenary), Chania, Greece, June 2006
- International Workshop on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm
in Material Science and Engineering (NGMS-2006) (plenary), Howrah, India,
January 2006
- Pre-Workshop Tutorial
of the International Workshop on Neural Network and Genetic
Algorithm in Material Science and Engineering (NGMS-2006) (tutorial), Howrah,
India, January 2006
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Practical
Approaches to
Multi-Objective Optimization (tutorial), Dagstuhl, Germany, November 2004
- ECCOMAS2004, 4th European
Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (plenary),
Jyväskylä, Finland, July 2004
- EMO 2001 Conference,
First International Conference on Evolutionary
Multi-Criterion Optimization (tutorial), Zurich, Switzerland, March 2001
Supervision
and Summer Schools etc.
- I have been a supervisor of
nineteen doctoral theses (fourteen at the University of
Jyväskylä: Marjo Haarala (2004), Maria Dementieva
(2004), Heikki Maaranen (2004), Jussi Hakanen (2006), Iryna
Yevseyeva (2007), Anne Setämaa-Kärkkäinen (2008),
Timo Aittokoski (2009), Karthik Sindhya (2011), Markus
Hartikainen (2011), Tomi Haanpää (2012), Vesa Ojalehto
(2014), Mohammad Tabatabaei (2016), Tinkle Chugh (2017), Yue
Zhou-Kangas (2018), Atanu Mazumdar (2021), Bhupinder Singh Saini
(2022), Pouya Aghaei pour (2022)
one at Helsinki School of Economics: Petri Eskelinen (2008) and one at the University of Eastern
Finland: Henri Ruotsalainen (2010)) and administrative supervisor of one doctoral thesis (at Helsinki
School of Economics, Pekka Malo (2007))
- I was an invited lecturer in the EURO PhD Summer School on
MCDA/MCDM, Chania, Greece, August 2018
- I was an invited lecturer in the virtual
course "Modelling and Optimization", Tampere University of
Technology, 2006
- I was an invited lecturer at the
Felix Klein Summer School, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2010
- I was an invited lecturer at
Autumn School of the Gaduiertenkolleg "Optimization",
Siegmundsburg/Thür, Germany, October - November 2004
- I was an invited lecturer at
International M.Sc. Degree in Complexity and Its Interdisciplinary
Applications, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Pavia, Italy,
April 2004
- I was an invited lecturer in the Summer School on
Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 2003
- I was an invited lecturer at the
6th International Summer School on MCDA, Turku, Finland, July - August
1997
Member of Societies
Software
·
WWW-NIMBUS is an interactive multiobjective
optimization sofware working via the Internet. There are two versions at your
disposal, for free! The newer one, so called scalar version and the older one, so called vector version
- IND-NIMBUS is an interactive
multiobjective optimization sofware for industrial problems and different
operating systems.
- DESDEO is an open source
software framework for interactive multiobjective optimization methods
- Links to implementations of individual methods in
the list of publications
Miscellaneous
- Degree in open sea navigation,
2002 (award for the best degree in Finland in 2002)
Miscellaneous links
Kaisa Miettinen, kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi
