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

Curriculum Vitae - CV

Find me also in Google Scholar, Linkedin, SlideShare, GitHub, Stack Overflow

Teaching

Courses that I am imparting this semester.

[Lecturer] University of Tartu, LTAT.06.007 Distributed Systems (Spring 2025) - Fundamental and mandatory course in Computer Science curricula
[Lecturer] University of Tartu, LTAT.06.010 Pervasive Data Science Seminar (Spring and Fall 2025)

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 Wearable 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.

List of publications

Research projects in progress:

[2025-2029][Estonian Research Council][PRG] GENIE: Foundations of Generative Calibration for Low-cost Pervasive Light Sensing (GENIE: Generatiivse kalibreerimise alused odava ja kõikjal kättesaadava valgusmõõtmise jaoks)

Previous research projects to which I have contributed:

List of projects

News

10.08.2025 Serving as TPC member of IUI 2026.
15.07.2025 Serving as TPC member of PerCom 2026.
01.07.2025 We got a full paper in ACM SIGCHI ICMI 2025, see you in Canberra, Australia!
01.07.2025 Serving as TPC member of SAC-SCCI 2026.
26.06.2025 Gave an interview for IEEE Spectrum, covering our tiny data-centers research, thanks you!, [link here]
25.06.2025 Research in Estonia featured on research in tiny data centers, thank you!, link here
23.06.2025 Serving as TPC member of SenSys 2026.
16.06.2025 Euronews featured our work on tiny data centers, [link here], thank you!.
10.06.2025 Our resarch on tiny data centers with old smartphone was featured in media by Postimees, thank you! [link here]
22.04.2025 Glad to support UbiComp 2025 through the student challenge competition.
10.03.2025 Serving as TPC member of RecSys 2025.
11.02.2025 Our paper about recycling old smartphones into tiny data centres will be featured in IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine
04.02.2025 Became Associate Editor for ACM IMWUT (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies).
21.01.2025 Serving as TPC member of CLOUD 2025 (In conjuction IEEE World Congresss on SERVICES).
17.01.2025 Serving as TPC member of EdgeSys 2025 (In conjuction with EuroSys).
18.12.2024 Our GENIE project got funded by ETAG (Eesti Teadusagentuur - Estonian Research Council) for the period 2025-2029. [Results here]. Thank you!
17.12.2024 We got a paper into ACM HotMobile 2025.
older news

Community Service

Entrepreneurship

Research in action: IN-mobile (in-progress)

Research visits

October - November 2024, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Norway, Associate Professor Xiang Su.
March 2019, HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology), Hong Kong, Prof. Pan Hui
April 2018, Lancaster University, UK, Dr. Petteri Nurmi
January-August 2014, HKUST (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

NODES research - Pervasive Data Science Group, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Center for Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), University of Oulu, Finland.
HKUST-DT System and Media Laboratory (SyMLab), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.