Huber Flores
Associate Professor of Pervasive Computing
Distributed and Pervasive Systems Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Tartu, Estonia.
Docent (Dosentti) at University of Helsinki, Finland.
Academy of Finland Postdoc Fellow (Alumni)
Faculty of Science Postdoc Fellow at University of Helsinki (Alumni)
Address:
Narva mnt 18 (Delta Centre)
51009 TARTU ÜLIKOOL
Tartu, Estonia
E-mail: huber.flores AT ut.ee
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Teaching
Courses that I am imparting this semester.
Check out our 2 ECTS MOOCs (in collaboration with MinnaLearn, developers of "Elements of AI"; and EU SPATIAL) - Detailed instructions on how to access them here
- [MOOC] Trustworthy AI - "Understand the importance, considerations, and impacts of trustworthy AI"
- [MOOC] Advanced Trustworthy AI - "Learn the principles, methods, and tools for implementing trustworthy AI in practice"
Past courses
Research
I conduct research in Mobile, Pervasive and Cloud Computing.
Prospective PhD students and postdocs: I am always looking for exceptional students with hunger to climb up to the top of the academic ladder, and willing to compete toe-to-toe with the best there is in our field. If you have the passion for distributed and pervasive systems, drop me an e-mail with "Candidate for DPS group" in the subject. Check our current open positions.
Research projects in progress:
- [2021-2024][EU Horizon project] SPATIAL (Security and Privacy Accountable Technology Innovation, Algorithms and Machine Learning)
- [2019-2023][IT Estonian Academy Programme for Development of ICT Research] Foundations of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for Pervasive Sensing
Previous research projects to which I have contributed:
News
- 25.03.2024 Our pervasive chabots research got accepted as a full paper into ACM UMAP 2024.
- 11.03.2024 Delivered a talk about Gauging and Monitoring the Inference Capabilities of AI using AI Sensors and Dashboards, link to the recording.
- 01.02.2024 Serving as TPC member of ACM MM 2024.
- 20.01.2024 We got two full papers into ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2024, part of the CPS-IoT Week, See you in Hong Kong!.
- 03.01.2024 Serving as TPC member of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2024.
- 15.12.2023 Our paper Life is Plastic? got into ACM HotMobile 2024
- 02.11.2023 A PhD student of mine is graduating from University of Helsinki, news here
- 18.10.2023 Giving a talk about "Low-cost Sensing for Enviromental Sustainability" on October 31 at the Data Science Seminar, program here.
- 08.09.2023 Serving as TPC member of IEEE ICCCN 2024.
- 25.08.2023 Delivering a talk in SECURENET 2023, Dublin, Ireland.
- 09.08.2023 Serving as TPC member of ACM IUI 2024.
- 11.07.2023 Serving as TPC member of IEEE FMEC 2023.
- 20.06.2023 My talk about sensors for daily life interaction delivered at the IT Academy Summit, link here
- 18.06.2023 Serving as TPC member of PerCom 2024.
- 16.06.2023 Participating in FCN workshop in Helsinki, program here
- 02.06.2023 My interview about EU SPATIAL WP3 developments, here.
- 01.06.2023 Serving as TPC member of IoT Conference 2023.
- 20.06.2023 My interview in YLE News TV broadcast in Finland, link here (from 12:23 to roughly 14:45)
- 19.05.2023 A few of our demos (Smart ring and Nanodrones) got featured in YLE news in Finland, link here
- 08.05.2023 Our smart ring technology was TV broadcasted by Kanal 2, Õhtu! Thank you! link here
- 03.05.2023 Serving as TCP member of ImmerCom 2023 (Co-located with ACM MobiCom 2023)
- 12.04.2023 Our work about underwater dead reckoning got into Ubicomp/IMWUT!
- 17.03.2023 Call for posters for ACM Mobisys 2023 is out! Please consider contributing with your recent work!
- 08.03.2023 Serving as a Poster chair for ACM MobiSys 2023 to be held in Helsinki, Finland
- 22.02.2023 Our smart ring prototype for drink spiking got the best demo runner-up award at ACM HotMobile 2023
- 21.02.2023 ERR media coverage in English about our smart ring hedgehog, here
- 18.02.2023 Our research work about drink spiking got TV broadcasted during Aktuaalne Kaamera and media coverage in ERR Novaator, here
- 17.01.2023 We will be presenting a demo paper in HotMobile 2023.
- older news
Community Service
Entrepreneurship
Research visits
- March 2019, The Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology, Prof. Pan Hui
- April 2018, Lancaster University, Dr. Petteri Nurmi
- January-August 2014, The Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology, Prof. Pan Hui
About Me
Huber Flores is an Associate Professor of Pervasive Computing at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia as well as a Docent (Affiliate Professor) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prior to that, he held the prestigious Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellowship and the competitive Faculty of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship of the University of Helsinki. He is former member of UBICOMP at University of Oulu, Finland, and SyMLab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He is member of ACM (SIGMOBILE) and IEEE associations. He is also the recipient of the Jorma Ollila Award given by the Nokia Foundation. His major research interests include mobile and pervasive computing, distributed systems, and mobile cloud computing.
Talks and events album
Former member of the following research groups