Career
He is the head of the Computational Cognitive Systems research group of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre. In 2013 he was appointed professor of research in digital resources at the University of Helsinki
Timo Honkela has conducted research on several areas related to knowledge engineering, cognitive modeling and natural language processing. This includes a central role in the development of the Websom method for visual information retrieval and text mining based on the Kohonen self-organizing map algorithm.
Honkela collaborated with George Legrady to produce Pockets Full of Memories, an interactive museum installation.
The concept was created by Legrady. Honkela is a former long-term chairman of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society.
Honkela is currently the chair of the IFIP working group on knowledge representation and reasoning (Working group 121) and Finland"s representative in TC12 on artificial intelligence. In this position, he has organized AKRR"05 and AKRR"08, the international and interdisciplinary conference on adaptive knowledge representation and reasoning.
Honkela has given a large number of keynote, invited and regular talks in international conferences including
International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, January 2009 (keynote talk)
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, Santorini, Greece, June 2008 (keynote talk)
IGERT Seminar Series, University of California Santa Barbara, United States of America, December 2006 (invited talk)
International Conference on Fundamentals of Data Organization, FODO"98, Kobe, Japan, November 1998 (keynote talk).
