2026 Heikki Mannila: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	82	932	901	4	4	279	41270

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Finland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Finland Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Finland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Heikki Mannila is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and focuses primarily on engineering, with specific attention to electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, and building and construction.

Their research spans several main topics, including advanced clustering algorithms research, building energy and comfort optimization, energy load and power forecasting, data mining algorithms and applications, data management and algorithms, graph theory and CDMA systems, and simulation techniques and applications.

The scientist has published multiple papers across well-known venues. Recent publications include:

"Tell Me Something I Don't Know: Randomization Strategies for Iterative Data Mining," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"The Hadamard decomposition problem," 2024, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
"Issue Information," 2020, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal
"Issue Information," 2020, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal
"Issue Information," 2020, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Heikki Mannila include:

Jia Li
Guang Cheng
Ranjan Maitra
Bertrand Clarke
Sayan Mukherjee

The scientist's work is often featured in several venues, such as:

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Energy and Buildings

Best Publications

Principles of Data Mining

David J. Hand;Padhraic Smyth;Heikki Mannila

6587
Citations
Fast discovery of association rules

Rakesh Agrawal;Heikki Mannila;Ramakrishnan Srikant;Hannu Toivonen

3889
Citations
Discovery of Frequent Episodes in Event Sequences

Heikki Mannila;Hannu Toivonen;A. Inkeri Verkamo

3288
Citations
Random projection in dimensionality reduction: applications to image and text data

Ella Bingham;Heikki Mannila

1822
Citations
Clustering aggregation

A. Gionis;H. Mannila;P. Tsaparas

1419
Citations
Efficient algorithms for discovering association rules

Heikki Mannila;Hannu Toivonen;A. Inkeri Verkamo

1252
Citations
Finding interesting rules from large sets of discovered association rules

Mika Klemettinen;Heikki Mannila;Pirjo Ronkainen;Hannu Toivonen

1168
Citations
Levelwise Search and Borders of Theories in KnowledgeDiscovery

Heikki Mannila;Hannu Toivonen

1022
Citations
Rule discovery from time series

Gautam Das;King-Ip Lin;Heikki Mannila;Gopal Renganathan

1018
Citations
Discovering Frequent Episodes in Sequences.

Heikki Mannila;Hannu Toivonen;A. Inkeri Verkamo

919
Citations
A database perspective on knowledge discovery

Tomasz Imielinski;Heikki Mannila

780
Citations
Disjunctive datalog

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob;Heikki Mannila

680
Citations
Discovering generalized episodes using minimal occurrences

Heikki Mannila;Hannu Toivonen

603
Citations
Finding Similar Time Series

Gautam Das;Dimitrios Gunopulos;Heikki Mannila

477
Citations
Sistema y método para proporcionar recomendaciones sensibles al contexto a los servicios digitales

Sorvari Antti;Kähäri Markus;Toivonen Hannu;Mannila Heikki

475
Citations
Verkamo: Fast Discovery of Association Rules

Rakesh Agrawal;Heikki Mannila;Rayadurgam Srikant;Hannu T. T. Toivonen

460
Citations
The Discrete Basis Problem

P. Miettinen;T. Mielikainen;A. Gionis;G. Das

448
Citations
The Design of Relational Databases

Heikki Mannila;Kari-Jouko Räihä

396
Citations
Assessing data mining results via swap randomization

Aristides Gionis;Heikki Mannila;Taneli Mielikäinen;Panayiotis Tsaparas

394
Citations
Time series segmentation for context recognition in mobile devices

J. Himberg;K. Korpiaho;H. Mannila;J. Tikanmaki

337
Citations
Algorithms and Applications

Tapio Elomaa;Heikki Mannila;Pekka Orponen

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannu Toivonen University of Helsinki

Aristides Gionis Royal Institute of Technology

Padhraic Smyth University of California, Irvine

Esko Ukkonen University of Helsinki

David J. Hand Imperial College London

Mikael Fortelius University of Helsinki

Gautam Das The University of Texas at Arlington

Juha Kere Karolinska Institute

Dimitrios Gunopulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Leena Peltonen University of Helsinki

External Links

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