Biography
I am a computer engineer and software designer and work as a Senior Lecturer. I also serve as the in‑charge of pedagogy development in the newly established Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Immersive Software Engineering and AI (ISEAI) at the University of Jyväskylä. ttps://www.jyu.fi/iseai
On 11 May 2026, I was granted the title of Docent (≈ Associate Professor) of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki.
I am also involved in a startup resulting from the Business Finland funded Research-to-Business Project at the University of Helsinki: https://agentformers.fi/
Misc. - My Erdős number is 4 and Dijkstra number is 3.
Teaching:
- TIES3420 GPU Programming (5 cr) https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2025/en/courseunit/ties3420/ (Master/PhD level)
- TIES411 Computer Vision and Image Analysis (5 cr) https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2025/en/courseunit/ties411/ (Master/PhD level)
- TEKS5466 Software Testing (5 cr) https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2025/en/courseunit/teks5466/ (Master/PhD level)
- ISEP1000 Introduction to Information Technology (4 cr) https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2026/en/courseunit/isep1000/ (Bachelor level)
- ISEP1003 Software Design (5 cr) https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2026/en/courseunit/isep1003/ (Bachelor level)
- ISEA2008 Cloud Computing (4 cr) https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2026/en/courseunit/isea2008/ (Bachelor level)
Supervision (current):
As main supervisor
- Emil Kelhälä, Master Thesis Student, Research area: Benchmarking OS of Agents. Web: https://github.com/ekelhala
- Bishwash Khanal, Master Thesis Student, Research area: Modular LoRA Adapters for Domain-Specific Photographic Assessment. Web: https://bikhanal.github.io
- Abrar Ali Shah, Doctoral Researcher, Research area: Deterministic Agentic Coding for Embedded Systems. Web: https://www.jyu.fi/en/people/abrar-shah
- Talha Arshad, Doctoral Researcher, Research area: Digital Twinning for Scalable Data Infrastructure. Web: https://github.com/talha469/
As co-supervisor
- Efta Bashar, Doctoral Researcher, Research area: Safety-critical Physical AI. Web: https://www.jyu.fi/en/people/efta-bashar
- Jensen Thasan, Doctoral Researcher, Research area: Physics Informed Neural Network for Engineering Design. Web: https://www.jyu.fi/en/people/jensen-thasan
- Berkehan Ünal, Doctoral Researcher, Research area: Agentic Systems for Engineering Design. Web: https://www.jyu.fi/en/people/berkehan-unal
- Sahil Sandal, Doctoral Researcher, Research area: GenAI based Interactive Optimization for Engineering Design
- Alexander Engelhardt, Doctoral Researcher, Research area: Neural Router for Scalable Data Infrastructure. Web: https://alex-engelhardt.com/
Number of completed master theses: 9 (as main supervisor) / 5 (as co-supervisor)
Number of completed bachelor theses: 3 (as main supervisor)
Service to the Scientific Community:
Technical programme committees (TPC)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2026
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) 2026
- International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2026, Co-sponsored by IEEE
Professional service
- Secretary, Executive Committee, IEEE Finland Section – Signal Processing & Circuits and Systems Chapter https://r8.ieee.org/finland-spcas/ (2 Years Appointment, 01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026 by Plurality Election)
Research interests
I am working broadly in the following areas from a software-hardware co-integration angle:
- Intent-driven neuro-symbolic AI and its applications
- Embedded AI and its applications in cyber-physical systems (in particular, aerial robotics)
- Multi-LLM driven software development
- Distributed XR
Currently, I am contributing to the following research projects at the University:
- GenAIDE - Generative AI for Industrial Design Engineering (Funded by European Union) https://www.genaide.eu/
- 6GSoft - 6G software for extremely distributed and heterogeneous massive networks of connected devices (Funded by Business Finland) https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Project/183245942
- GENIUS - Generative AI for Software Development Lifecycle (Funded by Eureka R&D&I Cluster programme) https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Project/247319149
- ANSE - AI native Software Engineering (Funded by Business Finland) https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Project/269189768
Current Industry collaborators:
- Adobe Research, USA
- KONE, Finland
- Ericsson, Sweden
- Supersight, Finland