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:

[2026-2030][Doctoral Training Network][EU] NEOSIS: Network for Oceanic Sensing and Integrated Science
[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

25.03.2026 Serving as TPC member of ICMI 2026.
25.03.2026 Participating as partner in EU NEOSIS (Network for Oceanic Sensing and Integrated Science), a doctoral training network project.
13.03.2026 Serving as TPC member of RecSys 2026.
20.01.2026 Serving as TPC (Senior) member of CLOUD 2026.
29.01.2026 We got a paper in SenSys 2026 (acceptance rate 19.8%)
20.01.2026 Serving as TPC member of SIGIR 2026.
22.12.2025 Serving as TPC member of UMAP 2026.
20.12.2025 Serving as TPC member of SMARTCOMP 2026.
17.12.2025 We got two papers accepted into HotMobile 2026.
12.12.2025 We got a paper accepted into IUI 2026.
11.12.2025 Giving a talk about "Smart Plants on Wheels" in Data Science Seminar, entitled Autonomy Fabric AI-driven Operations.
22.11.2025 Serving as TPC member of EWSN 2026.
15.10.2025 Our SpiKey got Best Student Paper Award in ACM SIGCHI ICMI 2025. Thank you!
13.10.2025 Our Tiny but Mighty paper got Best Paper Award at UbiSense, co-located with UbiComp/ISWC 2025. Thank you!
older news

Community Service

Entrepreneurship

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

Research visits

October 2025, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Assistant Professor Shantanu Pal.
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.

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.