Eero Hyvönen is director of Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) at the University of Helsinki and professor of semantic media technology at the Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, where he directs the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) specializing on Semantic Web technologies and applications. A major recent theme (since 2001) in his research has been development of the national level semantic web infrastructure and its application in different areas. Eero Hyvönen has published some 500 research articles and books and has got several international and national awards. He acts in the editorial boards of Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, Semantic Computing, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics, and Ontologies, and International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, and has co-chaired and acted in the programme committees of tens of major conferences.

More information, publications etc. can be found at Eero Hyvönen's homepage:

https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/u/eahyvone/

Areas of interest:

• Semantic web, Linked Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Semantic Computing
• Digital Humanities
• Interval computations and constraint satisfaction (formerly)
• Software business (formerly)