PICT Juha Olavi Haataja

Address:
CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science
(Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus CSC)
P.O. Box 405
02101 Espoo, Finland
Phone:
+358 9 457 2001
Fax:
+358 9 457 2302
E-mail:
Juha.Haataja@csc.fi
Nationality:
Finnish, born in Finland in 1965
Marital status:
Married, three children
Languages:
Finnish (native), English (excellent), Swedish (good), German (fair)
Profile:
Leader of experts in science and information technology. Has advanced the level of computational science in Finland since 1988 by writing, teaching, and by helping researchers personally.
Degrees:
1o Master of Science (Engineering) 1991, Applied Mathematics, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK); title of diploma thesis Soluautomaattisimulointi (Cellular automata simulation)
2o Licentiate in technology 1994, Applied Mathematics, TKK; title of licentiate thesis Suurten optimointitehtävien ratkaiseminen (Solving Large-scale Optimization Problems)
Positions:
2005– Director for Science support, CSC
2000– Columnist, MikroPC Magazine, Finland
2004 Development manager, Support for Programming and Applications, CSC
2003–2004 Development manager, Support for Computational Science, CSC
1999–2003 Development manager, Science support, CSC (supporting chemistry,
biosciences, and environmental sciences)
1997–1998 Development manager, Computational methods, CSC
1990–1997 Application specialist, Computational methods, CSC
1988–1990 Application specialist, Computer Centre, TKK
Other activities and memberships:

• Chairman of the Resource Allocation Group at CSC (2002–2004). • Member of the Research.fi project team (appointed by the Ministry of Education for the years 2001–2002). See the report Research.fi: Tiede- ja teknologiahallinnon tietopohjan kehittämisprojekti 2001–2002. Opetusministeriön julkaisuja 2003:4. • Secretary to the Advisory Board on Information Technology in Research and Education (appointed by the Ministry of Education for the years 1998–2000). • Member of the Finnish Operations Research Society FORS (board 2003–) • Member of ACM, SIAM, AGU, Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK, and Ursa Astronomical Association (board 2005–)

Special skills:

• Group management, strategic planning, project management. • Computational science: numerical methods (optimization etc.), programming (Fortran 90/95 etc.), mathematical software (Matlab, Mathematica etc.). • Lecturing, giving presentations, writing (textbooks, manuals, popular articles etc.).
Selected textbooks and guides (over 30 books in total):

• Optimointitehtävien ratkaiseminen (Solving Optimization Problems). Juha Haataja. CSC, 2004. 245 pages. 3rd edition. In Finnish. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ optimointi/ • Matemaattiset ohjelmistot (Mathematical Software). Esa Lammi, Juha Haataja et al. CSC, 2004. 105 pages, 4th edition. In Finnish. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ mat. ohj/ • Numeeriset menetelmät käytännössä (Numerical Methods in Practice).
Juha Haataja et al. CSC, 2002. 415 pages, 2nd edition. In Finnish.
http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ num. kayt/ • Fortran 90/95. Juha Haataja, Jussi Rahola and Juha Ruokolainen. CSC, 2001. 339 pages, 3rd edition. In Finnish. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ f95/ • Rinnakkaisohjelmointi MPI:llä (Parallel Programming Using MPI). Juha Haataja and Kaj Mustikkamäki. CSC, 2001. 97 pages, 2nd edition. In Finnish. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ mpi/ • GAMS-pikaopas (Introduction to GAMS). Juha Haataja. CSC, 2001. 46 pages. 4th edition. In Finnish. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ gams/ • Cray T3E User’s Guide. Eds. Juha Haataja and Ville Savolainen. CSC, 2001. 4th edition. 117 pages. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ t3e/ • Numeeriset menetelmät (Numerical Methods). Juha Haataja, Juhani Käpyaho and Jussi Rahola. CSC, 1993. 236 pages. In Finnish. • Vektorilaskenta — IBM 3090 Vector Facility (Vector Processing). Juha Haataja. Computing Centre, TKK, 1990. 71 pages. 2nd edition. In Finnish. • APL2-ohjelmointikielen käyttö (Using the APL2 Programming Language). Juha Haataja, Computing Centre, TKK, 1989. 127 pages. In Finnish.
Reports and proceedings:

• CSC Report on Scientific Computing 2001–2003. Eds. Kotila, Haataja, Forsström, Ignatius, Jukka, Laine, Runeberg, Råback, and Savolainen. CSC, 2003. 249 pages. http: / / www. csc. fi/ reports/ cr01-03/ • Applied Parallel Computing — Advanced Scientific Computing. 6th International Conference, PARA 2002. Proceedings. Eds. Fagerholm, Haataja, Järvinen, Lyly, Råback, and Savolainen. LNCS 2367. Springer, 2002. • Sillanrakennuksesta lääkeainesuunnitteluun — Matemaattinen mallintaminen suomalaisissa yliopistoissa (Mathematical modeling in Finnish universities). Juha Haataja, Jari Järvinen and Yrjö Leino. CSC, 2000. http: / / www. csc. fi/ raportit/ mallinnus/ • CSC Report on Scientific Computing 1999–2000. Eds. Sirpa Kotila and Juha Haataja. CSC, 2001. 224 pages. http: / / www. csc. fi/ reports/ cr99-00/ • CSC Report on Scientific Computing 1997–1998. Ed. Juha Haataja. CSC, 1999. 230 pages. http: / / www. csc. fi/ reports/ cr97-98/ • Workshop on Cellular Automata, Proceedings. Ed. Juha Haataja. CSC, 1991.
Books for the general audience:

• Laskennallinen tuotekehitys: suunnittelun uusi ulottuvuus (Computational product development). Ed. Juha Haataja, Jari Järvinen, Jari Koponen and Peter Råback. CSC, 2002. 116 pages. 2nd edition. In Finnish. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ tuotekehitys/ • Alkuräjähdyksestä kännykkään — näkökulmia laskennalliseen tieteeseen (From the big bang to mobile phones). Ed. Juha Haataja. CSC, 2002. 119 pages. 2nd edition. In Finnish. http: / / www. csc. fi/ oppaat/ lask. tiede/
Lectures, courses, and workshops:
1990– Dozens of guest lectures in events organized by universities,
research institutes, and private enterprises.
1995–2005 Eight two-day courses on programming with Fortran 90/95 (CSC)
1996–2004 Six 1–2 day courses on parallel programming with MPI (CSC)
2002 PARA’02, a four-day Conference on Applied Parallel Computing (CSC)
2001 A two-day workshop on modeling and optimization
(TKK, Nordic Energy Systems Integration Workshop)
2000 A five-day intensive course on program development in chemistry
(CSC, see http://www.csc.fi/courses/)
2000 A one-semester course on programming mathematical algorithms
(TKK, Systems Analysis Laboratory)
1999 A one-semester licentiate seminar on scientific computing
(TKK, Laboratory of Information Processing Science)
1998 A five-day intensive course on computational science (CSC,
organized for the ComBi graduate school)
1990–1997 Several 1–2 day courses on using mathematical software,
symbolic computation, vectorization, and optimization (CSC)
1992–1993 Three two-day intensive courses on numerical methods (CSC,
University of Jyväskylä, and Summer school in computational physics)
1991 Two-day workshop on Cellular Automata (CSC)
1988–1990 Several 2–3 day courses on vectorization (TKK)
Scientific articles:

• Industrial Applications: Challenges in Modeling and Computing. Jari Järvinen, Juha Haataja and Jari Hämäläinen. In the book “Applied Parallel Computing: New paradigms for HPC in industry and academia”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1–16. Springer-Verlag, 2000. • Using Genetic Algorithms for Optimization: Technology Transfer in Action. Juha Haataja. In the book “Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science”, pages 3–22. Wiley, 1999. Eds. K. Miettinen, M. M. Mäkelä, P. Neittaanmäki and J. Periaux. • A comparison of software for global optimization. Juha Haataja. Proceedings of the First Nordic Workshop on Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications, pages 189–204. University of Vaasa, 1995. Ed. Jarmo T. Alander. • A set of symbolic-numeric tools for handling some problems on Dirichlet polygons. Juha Haataja. Proceedings of the Workshop on Symbolic and Numeric Computing, pages 115–126. Rolf Nevanlinna Institute, Research Reports B10, 1994. Eds. Heikki Apiola, Marko Laine and Esko Valkeila.
Popular articles, essays, columns, and book reviews:

• Between 1990–2005 about 550 articles, essays, columns, and book reviews have appeared in magazines such as Tietoyhteys, Yliopisto, MikroPC, Arkhimedes, Solmu and CSC News.