Research
Research Interests
E-Government + Big Data, Data Science (algorithms, applications), Information Visualization, Social Network Analysis, Computational Social ScienceInnar Liiv is Associate Professor of Data Science at Tallinn University of Technology and a Research Associate at Oxford University's Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. He also belongs to the Future of Public e-Governance expert group at the Foresight Centre at the Parliament of Estonia. He was previously a Cyber Studies Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2016-2017), a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (2015), and a Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2009). His research interests include e-government and data science, social network analysis, computational social science, information visualization, and big data technology transfer to industrial and governmental applications. He is currently exploring an interdisciplinary research question, 'How to use data science to improve governments innovatively and successfully?'
Selected Publications
- Opik, R., Kirt, T., Liiv, I. Megatrend and Intervention Impact Analyser for Jobs: a visualization method for labour market intelligence. Journal of Official Statistics, 34(4), pp. 961-979 (2018). Retrieved 18 Dec. 2018, from doi:10.2478/jos-2018-0047
- Liiv, I. Welcome to E-Estonia, the tiny nation that’s leading Europe in digital innovation. The Conversation (2017) Reappeared in Huffington Post, OxPol, EconoTimes, Business Times
- Liiv, I. Data for Policy: Data Science and Big Data in the Public Sector. Advances in Political Science Methods: The Oxford University Politics Blog (2016)
- Kotka, T., Kask, L., Raudsepp, K., Storch, T., Radloff, R., & Liiv, I.: Policy and Legal Environment Analysis for e-Government Services Migration to the Public Cloud. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2016), pp. 103-108), ACM (2016)
- Kotka, T., Johnson, B., Cebul, T., Lovosevic, L., & Liiv, I.: E-Government Services Migration to the Public Cloud: Experiments and Technical Findings. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (Eds.) EGOVIS 2016, LNCS 9831, pp. 62-76, Springer (2016)
- Kotka, T., Liiv, I.: Concept of Estonian Government Cloud and Data Embassies. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (Eds.) EGOVIS 2015, LNCS 9265, pp. 149–162, Springer (2015)
- Liiv, I., Opik R., Ubi J., and Stasko, J. Visual Matrix Explorer for Collaborative Seriation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 4 (1), pp. 85-97, Wiley (2012)
- Liiv, I. Seriation and matrix reordering methods: An historical overview. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal, 3(2), pp. 70-91, Wiley (2010)
- Tepandi, J., Piho, G., Liiv, I.: Domain Engineering for Cyber Defence: a Case Study and Implications, In: Proceedings of The CCD CoE Conference on Cyber Conflict, Tallinn, Estonia, June 15-16, pp.59-77 (2010)
- Liiv, I.: Towards Information-Theoretic Visualization Evaluation Measure: A Practical example for Bertin's Matrices. In: Proceedings of ACM BELIV'10 (CHI 2010), Atlanta, US, April 10-11, 2010, pp. 24-28, ACM (2010)
- Liiv, I., Vedeshin, A. and Täks, E.: Visualization and structure analysis of legislative acts: a case study on the law of obligations. ICAIL 2007, pp. 189-190, ACM (2007)
- Liiv, I.: Visualization and data mining method for inventory classification. In: Proceedings of The 2007 IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI 2007), Philadelphia, USA, August 27-29, 2007, pp. 472-477, IEEE (2007)
- Liiv, I.: Inventory classification enhancement with demand associations. In: Proceedings of The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Shanghai, China, June 2006, pp.18-22, IEEE (2006)
Professional Experience
- Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia
Associate Professor (Data Science)
September 2009 – present
Supervisory Board Member, Faculty of Information Technology, Tallinn University of Technology - University of Oxford, UK
Research Associate
January 2018 - August 2020
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs - University of Oxford, UK
Cyber Studies Visiting Research Fellow January 2016 - June 2017
Hosted by Dr. Lucas Kello, Department of Politics and International Relations - Stanford University Stanford, California, US
Visiting Scholar March 2015 – June 2015
Hosted by Prof. Sharad Goel, Center for Work, Technology & Organization - STACC (Software Technology and Applications Competence Center, Estonia) Tallinn, Estonia
Member of Supervisory Board May 2013 – present
70-person joint venture between universities and IT companies - Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, US
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar February 2009 – March 2009
Visiting member of the Information Interfaces research group
Advisory Experience
- ORGTEST - Organizational Network Analysis and Visualization Tool
- 3DPrinterOS - Cloud 3D Printer Management
Open Source contributions
Media Coverage
ARTE TV: 22.04.2014
- Innar Liiv and group of researchers/students from Tallinn Tech on German and French versions of ARTE TV
- Research of Electric Vehicle Driving Behavior Big Data
ETV: 03.12.2013
- My PhD student Natlia Järv on Estonian National TV Channel ETV
- Eye-tracking research of electric car driver
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