Faculty of Information Technology
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä, Finland

Tommi Kärkkäinen received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Information Technology from the University of Jyväskylä (JYU), in 1995. Since 2002, he has been serving as a full professor of Mathematical Information Technology at the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), JYU. He has been/is involved in supervising 60 Ph.D. students, and he has published over 210 peer-reviewed articles. He received the Innovation Prize of JYU in 2010. He has served in many administrative positions at FIT and JYU, currently leading a Research Division and a Research Group on Human and Machine-Based Intelligence in Learning. He is a senior member of the IEEE.