[Jukka Suomela]

Jukka Suomela

Professor · ·

I am the programme director of Bachelor's Programme in Science and Technology (Teknistieteellinen kandidaattiohjelma), and the professor in charge of the Finnish Computer Science major (Tietotekniikka) and minor in our Bachelor’s program.

Research

Research interests: theoretical foundations of distributed and parallel computing, algorithms, computational complexity, and computability.

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Research group: Distributed Algorithms · HALT Helsinki Algorithms & Theory

News

Jobs

We are hiring 3 postdocs and 3 doctoral students to work on distributed quantum algorithms in projects funded by an ERC Advanced Grant and a QuantERA grant. Application deadline: July 31, 2026.

Internships

If you are interested in international summer internships, please apply through the Aalto Science Institute international summer research programme.

Talks

Landscape of Locality (SWAT 2020 keynote talk) Lower bounds for maximal matchings and maximal independent sets Can we automate our own work — or show that it is hard? (OPODIS 2020 keynote talk) What can we do with computers? (installation talk)

Awards

Teaching

Distributed Algorithms 2020 Programming Parallel Computers

Conferences

This page was last updated in June 2026