Currently: Lecturer (software engineering; Department of Information Technology, University of Turku), January 2002 -- .

Former academic positions

• Acting processor in software engineering (total 3 year, 4 months; Univ. of Turku), 2002 -- 2005.
• Lecturer in software engineering (total 2 years; Univ. of Turku), 1997 -- 2002.
• Senior Assistant (total 2 years 11 month; Univ. of Turku), 1997 -- 2000.
• Assistant / research assistant / senior research fellow (Joensuu/Kuopio/Turku, 5 years 4 months) 1992--2000.

Scientific expert positions

• Official Dissertation Opponent of Tanja Toroi (University of Kuopio, April 2009; "Testing Component-Based Systems - Towards Conformance Testing and Better Interoperability ")
• Official Dissertation Opponent of Timo Poranen (University of Tampere, October 2004; "Approximation Algorithms for Some Topological Invariants of Graphs")
• Opponent of PhLic Dissertation of Isto Aho (University of Tampere, March 1999).
• Dissertation referee of
  • Qaisar Malik (Åbo Akademi university, 2010)
  • Timo Aaltonen (Technical university of Tampere, 2005)
  • Antti Autere (Helsinki university of technology, 2005)
  • Isto Aho (University of Tampere, 2003).
• PhLic Dissertation referee of
  • Isto Aho (University of Tampere, March 1999).
  • Risto Honkanen (University of Kuopio, February 2000).
  • Anssi Kautonen (University of Joensuu, 2001).
• Supervised over 30 M.Sc. theses; currently supervising about 10 M.Sc. theses.
• Refereeing provided for
  • Journals: Nordic Journal of Computing, The Computer Journal, Informatics in Education.
  • Conferences: European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), Australasian Computer Science Conference, Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech'05 -- '07), Information Technologies at School (2006), 3rd E-learning Conference Computer Science Education (2006 -- 2007), Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06, COMPSAC'07).
  • Books: Wiley & Sons, Pearson Education.
• Reseach project refereeing provided for Slovak Research and Development Agency.

Academic and professional positions of trust

• Management committee member (Finland's representative) of COST Action 295 (EU), ``Dynamic Communication Networks: Foundations and Algorithms (DYNAMO)'', 2005 -- 2009.
• Research projects leader
  • Head of ReProCo project, doing certain work packages of Eureka project 'PRO3' (about software process modeling and related tools (SPEM, CMMI)). 05/2005 -- 10/2006.
  • Head of MoDeMa (Mobile Device Management) project. 06/2005 -- 12/2005, for TeliaSonera Finland.
• University of Turku site leader of Erasmus joint project 114046-CP-1-2004-1-BG-ERASMUS-TN ``European Thematic Network For Doctoral Education In Computing''. Project duration 2004--2007. All in all, 67 partners from 30 countries.
• Head of Computing and software engineering (Univ. of Turku; 09/2004 -- 12/2005).
• Member of OSCu board (Open Source Courseware virtual university project; 2003--2005).
• Editorial board memberships: Informatics in Education Journal (2003 -- 2009); International Journal Olympiads in Informatics (2009 --).
• Program committee member of conferences:
  • CompSysTech'05 (Computer Systems and Technologies)
  • CompSysTech'06 (Computer Systems and Technologies)
  • 3rd E-learning Conference Computer Science Education (2006)
  • COMPSAC'07 (31st Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE)
  • CompSysTech'07 (Computer Systems and Technologies)
  • 4th E-learning Conference Computer Science Education (2007)
  • COMPSAC'08 (32nd Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE)
  • CompSysTech'08 (Computer Systems and Technologies)
  • ISSEP'2008 (3rd International Conference INFORMATICS in SECONDARY SCHOOLS EVOLUTION and PERSPECTIVES)
  • COMPSAC'09 (33rd Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE)
  • CompSysTech'09 (Computer Systems and Technologies)
  • 3rd Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC 2009)
  • COMPSAC'10 (33rd Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE)
  • 4th Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC 2010)
  • CompSysTech'10 (Computer Systems and Technologies)
  • COMPSAC'11 (34th Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE)
• Publicity co-chair of COMPSAC'07 (31st Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE).
• Proceedings chair of COMPSAC'08 (32nd Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE).
• Publicity co-chair of SERA'09 (7th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, IEEE) .
• Coach of Finnish team for International Olympiad in Informatics, 2000 -- 2002.
• Member of organizing team of national competition in informatics (Datatähti, MAOL, 2000 -- 2002).

Professor's competence

Qualified and competent for the post of professor in

• Software engineering (Computing and software engineering; Univ. of Turku, Summer 2002).
• Software engineering (Computing and software engineering; Univ. of Turku, Autumn 2005).