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Dec 04, 2024. Prof. Petteri Nurmi participates in the new professors’ inaugural lectures at the University of Helsinki.
Nov 01, 2024. Prof. Petteri Nurmi gives the keynote lecture "The Labeling Gap:Enhancing Data Annotation for AI Modeling in Real-World Applications" at HKUST-GZ.
Nov 2024. Our paper AI Robustness Against Attacks in City-Scale Autonomous Drone Deployments has been accepted to IEEE Computer.
Oct 28 - Nov 2, 2024. Prof. Petteri Nurmi makes a research visit to Prof. Pan Hui at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou.
Oct, 2024. Our paper Low-Cost Sensing for Environmental Sustainability has been accepted in IEEE Pervasive Computing.
Oct, 2024. Our paper Population Digital Health: Continuous Health Monitoring and Profiling at Scale has been accepted to Online Journal of Public Health Informatics.
Sep, 2024. Our project Developing the Artificial Intelligence of Things has been funded by the TFK programme - Finnish National Agency for Education. The project is a collaboration with Jyväskylä University, Singapore Management University, and Chiang Mai University. -
Aug 01, 2024. PhD. Fatemeh Sarhaddi joins our research group as a Postdoctoral researcher.
May, 2024. Our paper Smart Plants on Wheels: Enhancing Indoor Productivity using Smart Plants and Autonomous Ground Drones has been accepted to IEEE Pervasive Computing.
May, 2024. Our paper Estimating Black Carbon Levels with Proxy Variables and Low-Cost Sensors has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Jan 31, 2024. Our paper Man and the Machine: Effects of AI-assisted Human Labeling on Interactive Annotation of Real-Time Video Streams has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS 2024).
Jan 20, 2024. Our paper SEAGULL: Low-Cost Pervasive Sensing for Monitoring and Analysing Underwater Plastics has been accepted to the 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2024).

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The Pervasive Data Science research group led by Professor Petteri Nurmi focuses on research challenges surrounding the proliferation of sensor-enabled devices into everyday environments. Our particular interest is how to use data provided by these devices to support scientific investigations. The group operates within the larger NODES research programme of University of Helsinki. Key research challenges addressed by the group include:

Improving the quality of sensor measurements collected on commodity devices.
Optimal collection of sensor measurements considering resource-effectiveness (e.g., energy and network connectivity) and quality of collected sensor data.
Representativeness of sensor data.
Sensor-supported methods for supporting scientific investigations in different fields.

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Dec 15, 2023. Our paper Life is Plastic? Detecting the Presence of Micro-Plastics in Food and Drink Containers has been accepted to the 25th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2024).
Nov 15, 2023. Our paper Accelerometer-Based Transportation Mode Detection on Smartphones published ten years ago, has received the ACM SenSys Test of Time Award.
Nov 02, 2023. Agustin Zuñiga Corrales defends his PhD thesis titled Pervasive Data Science: From Data Collection to End-User Applications at 12 pm, hall Karolina Eskelin (U3032), Fabianinkatu 33, 00100, Helsinki, Finland.
Sep 01, 2023. Petteri Nurmi has become a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Jun 18-22, 2023. We hosted the ACM MobiSys 2023 Conference. Our group particpated as part of the Organizing Committee (Petteri Nurmi: General Co-Chair, Ngoc Thi Nguyen: Publication Co-Chair, Agustin Zuniga: Video Co-Chair).
Jun 26, 2023. Our paper Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Air Pollution Monitoring: A survey has been accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Jun 18, 2023. Our paper Feasibility of Air Quality Monitoring from Transport Vehicles will appear in the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Environmental Sensing Systems for Smart Cities.
Jun 16, 2023. Our paper Digital Twins for Smart Spaces-Beyond IoT Analytics has been accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Jun 12, 2023. Our paper Lost in the Deep? Performance Evaluation of Dead Reckoning Techniques in Underwater Environments will appear in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.
Mar 15, 2023. Our paper Upscaling Fog Computing in Oceans for Underwater Pervasive Data Science using Low-Cost Micro-Clouds has been accepted in ACM Transactions on Internet of Things.
Mar 14, 2023. Our paper Virtual SenSorS: toward HigH-reSolution air Pollution Monitoring using AI and IoI has been accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
Dec 9, 2022. Our paper Hedgehog: Detecting Drink Spiking on Wearables will be presented in ACM HotMobile 2023 Conference.
Sep 26, 2022. Our paper The Many Faces of Edge Intelligence has been accepted in IEEE Access.
Sep 21, 2022. ACM MobiSys 2023 web page is online! Link.
Sep 01, 2022. Petteri Nurmi was invited as Keynote speaker in the workshop on Workshop on Pervasive Sustainability Tartu organized by University of Tartu, Estonia.
July 10, 2022. Our paper Smart Plants: Low-Cost Solution for Monitoring Indoor Environments has been accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
dec July 04, 2022. We haven been selected to host ACM MobiSys 2023 Welcome to Finland!
July 03, 2022. Our paper See No Evil: Discovering Covert Surveillance Devices using Thermal Imaging has been accepted in IEEE Pervasive Computing.
July 01, 2022. Petteri Nurmi was invited as Keynote speaker in the workshop on Autonomous Sensing Vehicles organized by University of Tartu, Estonia.
Nov 7, 2022. Our paper HIPPO: Pervasive Hand-Grip Estimation from Everyday Interaction has been accepted in ACM IMWUT.
Nov 5, 2022. Our paper Dense Air Quality Sensor Networks: Validation, Analysis and Benefits has been accepted in IEEE Sensors Journal.
Nov 3, 2022. Our paper Chirp-Loc: Multi-Factor Authentication via Acoustically-Generated Location Signatures has been accepted in Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
Nov 3, 2022. Our paper Social-aware Federated Learning: Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Data Training has been accepted in IEEE Internet Computing.
Nov 1, 2022. We has started the 3rd editon of our Introduction to the Internet of Things course at the University of Helsinki.
Nov 1, 2022. Jyrki Martti has joined our research group as a reserch assistant.
Oct 11-18, 2022. Petteri Nurmi was invited to give a talk in Large-Scale Air Quality Monitoring at Loughborough University and University of Leeds, UK.
Oct 14, 2022. We presented our research portfolio in the Elisa Research Event.

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