About me

I am a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Vision in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oulu.

Research

My research is in the field of computer vision. Below you can find a list of my publications and links to research projects with which I have been involved. Many of my publications are also listed on my Google Scholar page and in DBLP. Often the preprint versions of our most recent papers are available in arXiv.

• Publications and project pages with links to software and data

Students

Currently, I am supervising the following doctoral students at Aalto University:

• Alexandra Yakovleva, with Dr. Alexander Ilin
• Matias Turkulainen, with Prof. Arno Solin
• Yejun Zhang, with Prof. Esa Rahtu
• Zihan Wang, with Prof. Esa Rahtu
• Rongzhen Zhao, with Prof. Joni Pajarinen
• Yi Zhao, with Prof. Joni Pajarinen

In addition, I am currently co-advising the following students at other universities:

• Luca Ferranti at the University of Vaasa, with Prof. Jani Boutellier
• Guiyu Liu at the University of Oulu, with Prof. Janne Heikkilä
• Xuqian Ren at Tampere University, with Prof. Esa Rahtu
• Ulas Günes at Tampere University, with Prof. Esa Rahtu

Previously, I have supervised the following completed doctoral theses at Aalto University:

• Shuzhe Wang (2024), Aalto Thesis Award
• Yuxin Hou (2022), with A. Solin
• Rinu Boney (2022), with A. Ilin
• Santiago Cortes (2021), with A. Solin
• Ari Heljakka (2021), with A. Solin
• Vikas Verma (2020), Aalto Thesis Award
• Zakaria Laskar (2020)
• Iaroslav Melekhov (2020), with E. Rahtu
• Luiza Sayfullina (2019), with J. Karhunen

In addition, I have been a co-advisor of the following doctoral theses at other universities:

• Soumya Tripathy (2024), with E. Rahtu
• Janne Mustaniemi (2020), with J. Heikkilä
• Saad Ullah Akram (2017), with J. Heikkilä and L. Eklund
• Markus Ylimäki (2017), with J. Heikkilä
• Juha Ylioinas (2016), with M. Pietikäinen and A. Hadid
• Daniel Herrera Castro (2015), with J. Heikkilä

After their studies many of my former students have continued their careers at leading academic instutions and technology companies, such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Huawei, Nokia, and Nvidia, or started their own companies.

Teaching

I am currently teaching on the following courses at Aalto University:

• Computer Vision (CS-E4850)
• Deep Learning (CS-E4890)

I am also happy to discuss possible topics for bachelor, master and doctoral theses in computer vision and machine learning. Please come to talk with me anytime I am in my office.