Personal Information

• Name · Jukka Olavi Suomela
• Date of birth · 2 December 1976
• Place of birth · Lappeenranta, Finland

Contact Information

• Email · jukka.suomela@aalto.fi
• Mobile phone · +358 456 555 555
• Skype · jukka.suomela
• Office · B316, Computer Science Building

Degrees and Titles

• March 2012 · Docent in Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• September 2009 · PhD in Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• October 2005 · MSc in Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• June 2005 · BSc in Computer Science, University of Helsinki

Recent Positions

• 2020– · Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University
• 2014–2020 · Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University
• 2009–2013 · Postdoctoral Researcher, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

Publications and Talks

• List of publications · Google Scholar, DBLP
• Guest lectures and invited talks

Other Scientific Activity

Organisations

• Council member · EATCS (2015–2019 and 2021–)

Journals

• Guest editor · Theoretical Computer Science
• Reviewer · ACM Transactions on Algorithms, ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Algorithmica, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Distributed Computing, Fundamenta Informaticae, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Information and Computation, Information Processing Letters, Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Journal of Computational Geometry, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of the ACM, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Sensors, SIAM Journal on Computing, Theoretical Computer Science, Theory of Computing Systems

Conferences

• Steering committee chair · DISC 2022–2024
• Steering committee member · ADGA 2014–, DISC 2016–2024, SIROCCO 2016–2019, SWAT 2022–
• Programme committee chair · ADGA 2013, DISC 2019, SIROCCO 2016
• Track chair · SSS 2021
• Programme committee member · ALGOSENSORS 2011–2012, 2014, ALGOWIN 2023, DCC 2014, DCOSS 2019, DHN 2018, DISC 2013–2014, 2017–2018, 2022, 2024, ESA 2022–2023, FOCS 2025, FOMC 2012, ICALP 2014, 2017, 2019, 2025, ICDCN 2015–2016, ICDCS 2018, 2025, IWOCA 2016, 2021, 2024, OPODIS 2017, 2021, 2023, PODC 2016, 2022–2023, SIROCCO 2013–2014, 2025, SODA 2023, SPAA 2012, 2020, SSS 2011, 2017, STACS 2025, SWAT 2018, WOLA 2022
• Local organisation chair · ALGO 2018, SIROCCO 2016
• Virtuality chair · DISC 2020
• Communication chair · PODC 2015–2018
• Proceedings chair · DISC 2017
• Local organising team member · SWAT 2012
• Reviewer · DCOSS 2009, DHN 2017, DISC 2011–2012, 2016, ESA 2009–2011, 2013, 2015, 2024, Eurocomb 2013, FOCS 2018, ICALP 2015, 2020, ICT 2008, ISIT 2023, ITCS 2013, 2015, LATIN 2016, MFCS 2020, Pervasive 2009, PODC 2011, 2015, 2017–2018, RANDOM 2014, SDM 2007, SEA 2012, SODA 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2025, SOFSEM 2011, SOSA 2022, SPAA 2010, 2017, STACS 2017–2018, STOC 2016–2017, 2020, 2022–2025, SWAT 2008, TAMC 2011
• Keynote speaker · OPODIS 2020, SWAT 2020
• Invited speaker · SIROCCO 2023

Award committees

• Award committee member · Presburger Award (2017–2019), SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (2018), Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing (2019 and 2024), Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award (2020)

Funding agencies

• Evaluation panel member · Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC)
• Reviewer of project proposals · French National Research Agency (ANR), Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Chile (CONICYT), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany (DFG), European Research Council (ERC), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary (NKFIH), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Evaluation agencies

• Accreditation team chair · Accreditation of the engineering degree programmes in information and communication technology at the University of Turku, Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC)

Teaching

Majors and Minors

• Professor in charge of the Computer Science Bachelor-level major and minor, Aalto University · 2021–

Doctoral Students Supervised

• Joel Rybicki · 2012–2016
• Tuomo Lempiäinen · 2015–2019
• Juho Hirvonen · 2013–2016
• Jan Studený · 2020–2024
• Henrik Lievonen · 2022–
• Hossein Vahidi · 2022–
• Ronja Stimpert · 2024–

Lecture Courses

• CS-E4580 Programming parallel computers · 2015–
• CS-E4510 Distributed algorithms · 2014–
• CS-E4590 Competitive programming · 2015–
• CS-A0100 Tietokone työvälineenä · 2024–
• Deterministic distributed algorithms · 2010, 2012, 2014

Other Teaching Activities

• Seminar course on distributed algorithms · 2009, 2012
• Digital Humanities Hackathon (DHH) · 2015–
• HIIT Open Programming Contest · 2016–2019, 2024–
• Course on scientific writing, group instructor · 2006, 2008, 2009
• Complexity of computation, study group instructor · 2007
• Personal study plan and teacher tutoring, group instructor · 2007–2011

Grants and Awards

Grants

• 4-year research grant from the Research Council of Finland · 2024–2028
• 3-year research grant from the Research Council of Finland · 2024–2026
• 4-year research grant from the Research Council of Finland · 2020–2024
• 3-year research grant from the Research Council of Finland · 2019–2022
• 4-year research grant from the Research Council of Finland · 2015–2019
• 3-year research grant from the Research Council of Finland · 2011–2014
• 3-year research grant from the University of Helsinki · 2011–2013
• 1-year research grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation · granted 2009
• Scholarship from the Nokia Foundation · granted 2008

Awards

• Best paper awards · FOCS 2019, DISC 2017, DISC 2012, Algosensors 2008
• Steven Krauwer Award for CLARIN Achievements · 2024
• SCI teaching award · School of Science, Aalto University, 2019
• Best large course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2014–2015, 2016–2017, 2017–2018, 2019–2020, 2021–2022, 2022–2023
• Best small course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2017–2018, 2019–2020
• 2nd best large course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2018–2019, 2020–2021
• 2nd best small course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2018–2019, 2020–2021
• Teacher of the year · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2017
• Best junior researcher · Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 2008
• MSc thesis award · Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 2006

Links

• Publications · Google Scholar · DBLP · arXiv.org · ORCID · ResearcherID
• Software · GitHub · Bitbucket
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