INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS at TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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GENERAL INFORMATION


INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS

at Tallinn University of Technology


Founded in 1960 as an institute of Estonian Academy of Sciences, associated with Tallinn University of Technology in 1997.


AREAS OF RESEARCH

APPLIED MATHEMATICS. Approximation methods, inverse problems, stochastic programming.
MECHANICS. Nonlinear dynamics and wave propagation, non-destructive stress analysis (photoelasticity and acoustodiagnostics), cardiac dynamics.
PHOTOELASTICITY. Residual stress in glass, integrated photoelasticity, stress field tomography, hybrid mechanics, glass stress measurement technology.
COMPUTER SCIENCE. Mathematical foundations for computer science, mathematical logic and constructive mathematics, automated program synthesis, knowledge-based software engineering, specification and verification of real-time software, software systems.
CONTROL SYSTEMS. Non-linear and robust control systems, modeling of control systems, learning and planning in robotic systems, formal testing and verification methods for distributed and embedded systems.
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY. Formal models for natural languages, Estonian phonetics, speech analysis and synthesis, speaker recognition.


STAFF

As of Dec 31, 2008 academic staff (66 persons) included 4 members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 6 DSc, 27 PhD, 17 candidates of sciences, and 26 MSc. Technical staff 42 persons.


LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS

Latest achievements of the Institute are reflected in publications:


2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
papers in journals referred by ISI Web of Science 13 10 24 32 30 31 32
papers in other international journals and conference proceedings 39 71 53 54 70 83 74
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences 8 11 5 3 4 12 2
papers in other scientific journals and proceedings 6 4 3 2 5 4 9

THE STRUCTURE OF THE INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS

(confirmed by director's order from Nov 30, 2009 No. 1-2/28, [2009_struktuur.pdf])

ADMINISTRATION
Director: ANDRUS SALUPERE
Vice Director: JAAN PENJAM Chief Accountant: MARE SAAGO Technical Director: SULEV KUIV
DEPARTMENTS

MECHANICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Jüri Engelbrecht

LABORATORY OF PHOTOELASTICITY
Hillar Aben

LABORATORY OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Marko Vendelin

LABORATORY OF WAVE ENGINEERING
Tarmo Soomere

CONTROL SYSTEMS
Jüri Vain

LABORATORY OF PHONETICS AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
Einar Meister

SOFTWARE
Ahto Kalja
INFORMATION SERVICE
LIBRARY
Marje Tamm
NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
Rein Lõugas

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