Mikko Malinen

Ph.D., Computer Science,
University of Eastern Finland


University of Eastern Finland

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I have been part of the Machine Learning Unit, in School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland,
My doctoral thesis', published in 2015, topic is "New Alternatives for k-Means Clustering". My research interests are in data clustering, pattern recognition, algorithms, and coding theory.
I have contributed to several of data clustering software.
My biography.
My Erdös number is 4.

Books:

Mikko I. Malinen, "Collected Papers 2023 - A Special Issue on Electric, Magnetic and Gravitational Fields and Astronomy", a self-published book containing research results, 2024. pdf

Mikko I. Malinen, "Collected Papers 2022 - A Special Issue on Distance Measures and Machine Learning", a self-published book containing research results, 2023. pdf

Mikko I. Malinen, "Collected Papers 2021 - A Special Issue on Statistics and Probability", a self-published book containing research results, 2022. pdf

Mikko I. Malinen, "Collected Papers 2020 - A Special Issue on Fermat's Last Theorem", a self-published book containing research results, 2020. pdf

Mikko I. Malinen, "Collected Papers 2017", a self-published book containing research results, 2018. pdf

Mikko Malinen, "Collected Papers 2000-2009", a self-published book containing research results, 2012. pdf

Journal publications:

Mikko I. Malinen and Pasi Fränti, "All-pairwise distances lead to more balanced clustering", Applied Computing and Intelligence, 3 (1), 93-115, May 2023

Caiming Zhong, Mikko Malinen, Duoqian Miao and Pasi Fränti, "A Fast Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm Based on k-Means", Information Sciences 295, February 2015, Pages 1-17
Bibtex

Mikko I. Malinen, Radu Mariescu-Istodor and Pasi Fränti, "K-means*: Clustering by Gradual Data Transformation", Pattern Recognition 47 (10), October 2014, Pages 3376-3386
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Mikko I. Malinen, Pasi Fränti, Clustering by Analytic Functions, Information Sciences 217, December 2012, Pages 31-38
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Conference publications:

M. I. Malinen and P. Fränti, "Balanced k-Means for Clustering", Joint Int. Workshop on Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition (S+SSPR 2014), LNCS 8621, 32-41, Joensuu, Finland, August 2014
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C. Zhong, M. Malinen, D. Miao and P. Fränti, "Fast Approximate Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm Based on k-Means", Int. Conf. Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), LNCS 8047, 262-269, York, UK, August 2013

M. I. Malinen and P. Fränti, "K-means*: Clustering by Gradual Data Transformation", Int. Conf. Image & Graphics, Hefei, China, 350-355, August 2011


Theses:

"New Alternatives for k-Means Clustering", Ph.D. thesis, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, 2015 pdf

"Raptor Codes", M.Sc. thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, 2009, available at request.

"Liitevapaat koodit", Fix-Free Codes, B.Sc. thesis, Helsinki University of Technlogy, Espoo, Finland, 2006 pdf

Teaching:


Autumn 2016: 3621312 Diskreetit rakenteet (Discrete Structures), course assistant

Autumn 2016: 3621518 Machine Vision, course assistant

Autumn 2016: 3621320 Ohjelmistotuotantoprosessi (Software Development Process), course assistant

Spring 2016: 3621335 Laskennallinen älykkyys I (Computational Intelligence I), course assistant

Autumn 2014: 3621312 Diskreetit rakenteet, course assistant

Spring 2014: 3621552 Clustering Methods, course assistant

Spring 2014: 3621597 Location-aware machine intelligence, course assistant

Autumn 2013: 3621511 Design and Analysis of Algorithms, course assistant

Spring 2013: 3621347 Tiedonlouhinta (Data Mining), course assistant

Autumn 2012: 3621511 Design and Analysis of Algorithms, course assistant

Autumn 2011: 3621211 Johdatus tietojenkäsittelytieteeseen, course assistant

Autumn 2010: 175311 Design and Analysis of Algorithms, course assistant

Autumn 2009: 175213 Procedural Programming, teacher

Thesis supervising:

I supervised Panu Parviainen's B.Sc. thesis in 2016.
I co-supervised Joni Pakarinen's M.Sc. thesis in 2013.
I co-supervised Pankaj Jaiswal's M.Sc. thesis in 2011.