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
Other Scientific Activity
Organisations
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 member · ADGA 2014– , DISC 2016– , 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 , DCC 2014 , DCOSS 2019 , DHN 2018 , DISC 2013–2014, 2017–2018, 2022 , ESA 2022 , FOMC 2012 , ICALP 2014, 2017, 2019 , ICDCN 2015–2016 , ICDCS 2018 , IWOCA 2016, 2021 , OPODIS 2017, 2021 , PODC 2016, 2022 , SIROCCO 2013–2014 , SODA 2023 , SPAA 2012, 2020 , SSS 2011, 2017 , 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 , Eurocomb 2013 , FOCS 2018 , ICALP 2015, 2020 , ICT 2008 , 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 , SOFSEM 2011 , SOSA 2022 , SPAA 2010, 2017 , STACS 2017–2018 , STOC 2016–2017, 2020, 2022 , SWAT 2008 , TAMC 2011
Keynote speaker · OPODIS 2020 , SWAT 2020
Award committees
Dissertation committees
Examiner of PhD thesis · Jochen Seidel (ETH Zurich), Juho Lauri (Tampere University of Technology), Fabian Reiter (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot)
Discussion leader in licentiate seminar · Iosif Salem (Chalmers)
Funding agencies
Evaluation of research proposals · French National Research Agency (ANR), Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Chile (CONICYT), European Research Council (ERC), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Evaluation agencies
Accreditation team chair · EUR-ACE accreditation, 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 Dissertations Supervised
Lecture Courses
CS-E4580 Programming parallel computers · spring 2015 , spring 2016 , spring 2017 , spring 2018 , spring 2019 , spring 2020 , …
CS-E4510 Distributed algorithms · autumn 2014 , autumn 2015 , autumn 2016 , autumn 2017 , autumn 2018 , autumn 2019 , autumn 2020 , …
CS-E4590 Competitive programming · autumn 2015 , autumn 2016 , autumn 2017 , autumn 2018 , autumn 2019 , autumn 2020 , …
Deterministic distributed algorithms · spring 2010 , spring 2012 , spring 2014
Other Teaching Activities
Seminar course on distributed algorithms · autumn 2009 , autumn 2012
Digital Humanities Hackathon (DHH) · spring 2015 , spring 2016 , spring 2017 , spring 2018 , spring 2019 , spring 2020
HIIT Open Programming Contest · spring 2016 , spring 2017 , spring 2018 , spring 2019
Teacher tutoring · 2014–2017
Course on scientific writing, group instructor · spring 2006, spring 2008, spring 2009
Complexity of computation, study group instructor · autumn 2007
Personal study plan and teacher tutoring, group instructor · 2007–2011
Grants and Awards
Grants
Awards
Best paper awards · FOCS 2019 , DISC 2017 , DISC 2012 , Algosensors 2008
SCI teaching award · School of Science, Aalto University, 2019
Best large course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2014–2015, 2016–2017, 2017–2018
Best small course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2017–2018
2nd best large course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2018–2019
2nd best small course · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, 2018–2019
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