Thesis instructors in IT faculty

Instructor: Kati Clements
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters/(Phd)

Topics

  • Learning Technologies
  • Innovation metrics
  • Information Systems Success (Project management)
Instructor: Andrei Costin
I supervise: Masters/PhD

Topics

  • All system security subjects, hands-on/applied research
  • All IoT/embedded/firmware security subjects
  • All applied computer and network security subjects (e.g., software, protocols)
  • All applied crypto and passwords subjects
  • All practical vulnerability and exploitation subjects
  • All large-scale, automation, ML/AI for cybersecurity subjects
  • All the above in mostly practical, sometimes a bit of theoretical or combined approaches
  • All the above either as quantitative research, qualitative research, or both
Instructor: Lauri Frank
I supervise: Masters/Phd

Topics

  • IT technology adoption and diffusion
  • Digital wellness services adoption and usage
  • eCommerce consumer behaviour and analytics
Instructor: Veikko Halttunen
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

Topics

  • Software Engineering 
  • Information Systems Development
  • Information Management and Strategies
  • Digital Content Consumer Behaviour
  • Challenges of Information Society 
  • Sustainable and Responsible Digitalization
Instructor: Mikko Hiljanen
I supervise: Masters 
  • Kognitiivinen turvallisuus
  • Koulutus, kasvatus ja turvallisuus
  • Turvallisuus ja demokratia
  • Historian käyttö ja väärinkäyttö 
Instructor: Jussi Jokinen
I supervise: Masters/PhD (primarily theses of Cognitive Science)

Topics

  • Computational cognitive modeling 
  • Visual search
  • Emotions in technology interaction
  • Multitasking and disruptions
  • Rational decision making
Instructor: Tiina Koskelainen
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters/PhD

Topics

  • IT use and user adaptation
  • Technostress, IT addiction
  • Social media use
  • Digitalization – society, businesses, and individuals
  • Qualitative methods
Instructor: Tommi Kotonen
I supervise: Masters (primarily theses of Security and Strategic Analysis)

Topics

  • Ääriliikkeet. polarisaatio ja radikalisaatio
  • Sisäinen turvallisuus
  • Terrorismi ja sen torjunta
  • Laadulliset menetelmät
  • Sosiaalinen media
Instructor: Tuomo Kujala
I supervise: Masters/PhD (primarily theses of Cognitive Science)

Topics

  • Human-Technology Interaction
  • Quantitative methods
  • Safety-critical user interfaces
  • Usability
  • Interaction design
  • Other topics in cognitive science, incl. basic research 
Instructor: Ari Kuusio
I supervise: Masters

Topics

  • Tiedonhallinnon johtaminen
Instructor: Martti Lehto
I supervise: Masters/PhD

Topics

  • Cyber Security from different perspective
  • Cyber Defence
  • Cyber Security Competence
  • Cyber Security Strategic Management
  • Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
  • Information operations
  • Digital environment
Instructor: Juuli Lumivalo
I supervise: Masters/Phd

Topics

  • Customer/user value-driven design and pro-environmental behavior
  • Digital sustainability​
  • User perspective in IS/digital service design
  • Understanding and enabling co-creation of value
  • Agentic AI artefacts / Technology as an actor in service exchange
Instructor: Pentti Marttiin
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters
  • Information Systems Development
  • Software Engineering
  • IT adoption
  • Knowledge management

Instructor: Saana Mehtälä
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

Topics

  • IT use and design from the perspective of well-being
  • technostress and coping 
  • work and leisure time
  • the school environment (teachers; children and young people)
  • qualitative methods 
  • semi-structured interview
Instructor: Markus Miettinen
I supervise: Masters/Phd 

Topics

  • AI Security
  • Security for AI
  • IoT security
  • System Security
Instructor: Panu Moilanen
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

Topics

  • Teknologian käyttö arjessa
  • Teknologia ja siihen liittyvä luottamus
  • Informaatio- ja hybridivaikuttaminen
  • Kriiseihin, turvallisuuteen ja konflikteihin liittyvät aiheet
  • Liikunnan ja hyvinvoinnin teknologiasovellukset

Instructor: Hanna Paananen
I supervise: Masters/Phd

Topics

  • Information security policies 
  • Information security (cybersecurity) management 
  • Behavioral and organizational aspects of authentication
  • Cybersecurity management in value chains 
  • Qualitative methods 
Instructor: Samuli Pekkola
I supervise: Masters/Phd

Topics

  • Information systems, their development, implementation, use 
  • Different architectures
  • Data/information management
  • IT-biz alignment 
  • IS & business processes
Instructor: Janne Riekkinen
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

Topics

  • Technology adoption and use
  • Consumer issues in digital environment
  • Digital piracy and copyright
  • Quantitative methods
Instructor: Markus Salo
I supervise: Masters/PhD

Topics

  • Technostress
  • IT switching and use
  • Qualitative methods
Instructor: Ville Seppänen
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters/PhD

Topics

  • Enterprise architecture; public and private organisations
  • Information technology management and business information management
  • Adoption of enterprise information systems and strategic information systems
  • Information systems development 
  • Software engineering
Instructor: Johanna Silvennoinen
I supervise: Masters/PhD (primarily theses of Cognitive Science)

Topics

  • Cognitive science, HTI, HCI 
  • User experience, usability, interaction design, experience design (predictability) 
  • Psychology and philosophy of design 
  • Multisensory experience 
  • Information processing fluency 
  • Cognitive and affective processes in decision making 
  • Visual experience, aesthetics, visual design in HCI 
  • Experimental studies, qualitative research, method development
Instructor: José Teixeira
I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

Topics

  • Open-Source Software 
  • Social Networks 
  • Enterprise Information Systems 
  • Information Systems Development
  • Social Networks Analysis 
  • Mining Software Repositories 
  • Case Study research 
Instructor: Tuure Tuunanen
I supervise: Masters/PhD

Topics

  • Design and development methods and processes
  • Understanding and enabling co-creation of value
  • Consumers and digital natives as users
Instructor: Naomi Woods
I supervise: Masters/PhD

Topics

  • Password Security and Behaviour
  • Memory (human)
  • Cognitive Psychology/Science
  • Information Systems Security
  • Technostress
  • Psychology
  • Neuro Information Systems
  • Information Policy Compliance and Behaviour
  • Quantitative Research
Instructor: Jukka Vuorinen
I supervise: Masters/PhD

Topics

  • Information technology and its social dimensions (e.g. self-tracking, socials roles and IT, human element in information security, social engineering)
  • IT & society
  • IT & philosophy
  • Qualitative research