Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD

Research

• On December 14, 2009, I was awarded the Vaisala Award of the Finnish Academy of Science and Leters in the field of mathematics for my research achievements
• I was chosen as Researcher of the Year at Helsinki School of Economics in 2007
• I am Professor of Industrial Optimization at the University of Jyväskylä
• My primary field of research is multiobjective optimization.
• I am also interested in nonlinear programming, optimization sofware and multiple criteria decision making.
• I study and develop interactive methods and software for multiobjective optimization.
• I head the optimization group at the Univeristy of Jyväskylä.
• List of my publications.
• Links connected to my interests.

My book Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization

Teaching in 2009-2010

• Postgraduate Seminar in Information Technology

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Selected Other Activities

• I am President-Elect of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making 2008-2011 and President 2011-2015.
• I am docent in optimization at the University of Jyväskylä.
• I am docent in mathematical methods and applications of decision making at the Helsinki School of Economics, Quantitative Methods of Economics and Management
• I am the leader in charge (and coordinator) of the joint project ``Multiobjective Optimization and Multidisciplinary Decision Support'' (2005-2008). The project belongs to the Finnish national technology program on Modeling and Simulation (MASI) funded by Tekes, Finnish Funding Agency for Technlology and Innovation and companies.
• I am General Vice Chair, Chair Elect of EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO 2008-2010 and Chair 2010-2012
• 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.
• I am a member of the international society MPS.
• 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 board of the Finnish Operations Research Society, 2007-2008, 2010.
• I am Vice-president of the Finnish Society of Computational Sciences, 2007-2009.
• I am a member of the Systems Analysis Division of the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence, 2006-2009

Some Activities in the Past

• 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 a member of the Bachelor's and Master's Degree Program planning committee at Helsinki School of Economics, Department of Business Technology, 2005-2007
• I was in charge of the doctoral program in Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management Science at Helsinki School of Economics 2004-2007
• I was in charge of quantitative methodologies and methods (in common scientific doctoral studies in the doctoral program) at Helsinki School of Economics 2004-2007
• I was the President of the Finnish Operations Research Society in 2002-2003 and a debuty of the board in 1997-2001 and 2004-2006.
• 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 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
• 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 the coordinator of the EU-Thematic Network INGENET at the University of Jyväskylä 1007-2003.
• 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.

Miscellaneous

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