Abhishek Kumar

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)