Thesis instructors in IT faculty

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Kati Clements (kati.clements@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters/(Phd)

  • Learning Technologies
  • Innovation metrics
  • Information Systems Success (Project management)

Andrei Costin  (andrei.costin@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD

  • 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

Lauri Frank (lauri.frank@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/Phd

  • IT technology adoption and diffusion
  • Digital wellness services adoption and usage
  • eCommerce consumer behaviour and analytics

Veikko Halttunen (veikko.halttunen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

  • Software Engineering 
  • Information Systems Development
  • Information Management and Strategies
  • Digital Content Consumer Behaviour
  • Challenges of Information Society 
  • Sustainable and Responsible Digitalization

Jussi Jokinen (jussi.j.jokinen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD (primarily theses of Cognitive Science)

  • Computational cognitive modeling 
  • Visual search
  • Emotions in technology interaction
  • Multitasking and disruptions
  • Rational decision making

Tiina Koskelainen (tiina.e.koskelainen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters/PhD

  • IT use and user adaptation
  • Technostress, IT addiction
  • Social media use
  • Digitalization – society, businesses, and individuals
  • Qualitative methods

Tuomo Kujala (tuomo.kujala@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD (primarily theses of Cognitive Science)

  • Human-Technology Interaction
  • Quantitative methods
  • Safety-critical user interfaces
  • Usability
  • Interaction design
  • Other topics in cognitive science, incl. basic research 

Ari Kuusio (ari.p.kuusio@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters

  • Tiedonhallinnon johtaminen

Gabriela Labres Mallmann (gabriela.l.labresmallmann@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/Phd

  • Information Systems Security
  • Information Policy Noncompliance Behaviour
  • Cyberdeviance/Violation of Information Security Policies
  • Collective Deviance from Information Security Policies
  • Multilevel perspective
  • Qualitative Research

Martti Lehto  (martti.j.lehto@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD

  • Cyber Security from different perspective
  • Cyber Defence
  • Cyber Security Competence
  • Cyber Security Strategic Management
  • Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
  • Information operations
  • Digital environment

Juuli Lumivalo  (juuli.k.lumivalo@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/Phd

  • Customer/user value-driven design and pro-environmental behavior (a ready topic opportunity for Master’s/PhD work!)
  • 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

Pentti Marttiin (pentti.t.marttiin@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

  • Information Systems Development
  • Software Engineering
  • IT adoption
  • Knowledge management

Saana Mehtälä (saana.s.s.mehtala@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

  • 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

Rahul Mohanani (rahul.p.mohanani@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/Phd

  • Empirical software engineering.
  • Human-centred software engineering (investigations on psychology and personalities in software design).
  • Software engineering for Responsible AI and Ethical AI systems.
  • Green, just and sustainable software engineering.
  • Investigating security and vulnerability concerns in software containers.
  • Software businesses, ecosystems, and entrepreneurship.
  • Qualitative, Quantitative and Design science research methodologies.

Panu Moilanen (panu.moilanen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

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

Jarkko Nurmi (jarkko.s.nurmi@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters/PhD

  • enterprise architecture
  • ecosystems and systems thinking
  • information systems development
  • other topics related to IS

Hanna Paananen  (hanna.k.paananen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/Phd

  • Information security policies 
  • Information security (cybersecurity) management 
  • Behavioral and organizational aspects of authentication
  • Cybersecurity management in value chains 
  • Qualitative methods 

Samuli Pekkola (samuli.j.pekkola@jyu.fi)

I supervise: 

  • Information systems, their development, implementation, use, different architectures, data/information management, IT-biz alignment. IS & business processes

Janne Riekkinen (janne.p.h.riekkinen@jyu.fi)

Ohjaan/I supervise: Bachelor/Masters

  • Technology adoption and use
  • Consumer issues in digital environment
  • Digital piracy and copyright
  • Quantitative methods

Markus Salo (markus.t.salo@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD

  • Technostress
  • IT switching and use
  • Qualitative methods

Ville Seppänen (ville.r.seppanen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Bachelor/Masters/PhD

  • 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

Johanna Silvennoinen (johanna.silvennoinen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD (primarily theses of Cognitive Science)

  • 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

Tuure Tuunanen (tuure.tuunanen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD

  • Design and development methods and processes
  • Understanding and enabling co-creation of value
  • Consumers and digital natives as users

Naomi Woods (naomi.woods@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD

  • Password Security and Behaviour
  • Memory (human)
  • Cognitive Psychology/Science
  • Information Systems Security
  • Technostress
  • Psychology
  • Neuro Information Systems
  • Information Policy Compliance and Behaviour
  • Quantitative Research

Jukka Vuorinen (jukka.a.vuorinen@jyu.fi)

I supervise: Masters/PhD

  • 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