Professor Kaisa Miettinen I am Professor of Industrial Optimization at the University of Jyväskylä I am also Visiting Professor (part-time) at the Department of Mathematics at KTH, Stockholm My primary field of research is multiobjective optimization

Latest Awards and Recognitions

• Jyväskylän 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 technoloby and 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

Research Interests

• Methods, theory and applications of multiobjective optimization
• 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)
• Multiple criteria decision making and multiattibute decision analysis
• Mathematical programming (including nonlinear and global optimization, e.g., genetic algorithms and hybrid methods)

My book Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization

Optimization Group

Special Scientific Acknowledgements

• 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 technoloby and 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 Researcher of the Year at Helsinki School of Economics in 2007

Activities

• I am a guest editor of the special issue devoted to the MCDM2011 conference to be published in the Journal of Global Optimization (with Serpil Sayin)
• I am 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 am 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
• I am the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the HUBI project funded by Tekes and companies (joint project with VTT), 2011-2012.
• I am responsible for the multiobjective optimization part of the project Optimal Joint Production of Ecological and Economic Values in Forest Landscapes led by Prof. Mikko Mönkkösen at the University of Jyväskylä funded by the Academy of Finland, 2011-2014
• Together with Salvatore Greco, Joshua Knowles and Eckart Zitzler I organize in January 2012 a Dagstuhl seminar Learning in Multiobjective Optimization
  

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  Past:
• 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

Scientific Positions of Trust

• I am President of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making 2011-2015
• I am Chair of EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO 2010-2012
• I am adjunct professor in optimization at the University of Jyväskylä
• I am adjunct professor in mathematical methods and applications of decision making at the Aalto University
• I am a member of the Steering Committee of EMO (Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization) 2008-
• I am a member of the International Steering Committee of OIPE - Workshop on Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics Series, 2008-2010
• I am a member of the board of directors of the COMAS Graduate School at the University of Jyväskylä 2003-2005, 2007-
• I am a member of the Science Council of the University of Jyväskylä, 2010-2011
• I am a deputy of the steering group and member of board of advisors of the Finnish Graduate School in Computational Sciences (FICS), 2009-
• I am a member of the Systems Analysis Division of the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence, 2006-2009, 2010-2012
• I am a debuty of the board of the Finnish Operations Research Society, 2012
  

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  Past:
• 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 and a debuty of the board in 1997-2001, 2004-2006, 2009
• 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 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 have been organizing three Dagstuhl seminars on multiobjective optimization in 2004, 2006 and 2009
• 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 in charge of the project "NIMBUS - Multiobjective Optimization in Product Development" at the University of Jyväskylä 2001-2005
• 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
• 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 Tasks as an Expert

• I am a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Global Optimization
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Optimization Letters
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal OR Spectrum
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal International Journal of Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications
• I have been invited to act as a referee for Zentralblatt MATH

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  Past:
• 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

Supervision

• I have been a supervisor of eleven doctoral theses (nine at the University of Jyväskylä, one at Helsinki School of Economics and one at the University of Eastern Finland) and administrative supervisor of one doctoral thesis (at Helsinki School of Economics)
• 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 20-24, 2010
• I was an invited lecturer at Autumn School of the Gaduiertenkolleg "Optimization", Siegmundsburg/Thür, Germany, October 28 - November 1, 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 21-23, 2004
• I was an invited lecturer at the 6th International Summer School on MCDA, Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 8, 1997

Teaching

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Past:
• I was in charge of the Postgraduate Seminar in Information Technology till spring 2011
• I gave lectures in November 2004 on interactive methods for nonlinear multiobjective optimization in Siegmundsburg, Germany
• I gave lectures on nonlinear multiobjective optimization at the University of Pavia in April 2004
• I gave lectures in June 2003 in Lappeenranta in the Summer School on Applied and Industrial Mathematics on Some Trends in Optimization and Multiobjective Optimization

Member of Societies

• I am a member of the Mathematical Optimization Society
• I am a member of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
• I am a member of the EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO
• I am a member of the European Working Group "Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding"
• I am a member of the International Society of Global Optimization
• I am a member of the Finnish Operations Research Society
• I am a member of the Finnish Society on Computational Sciences
• I am a member of the INFORMS Section on MCDM

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.

Miscellaneous

• Degree in open sea navigation, 2002 (award for the best degree in Finland in 2002)

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