- FOCS 2019 best paper award: “Lower bounds for maximal matchings and maximal independent sets”
- DISC 2017 best paper award: “Improved distributed degree splitting and edge coloring”
Teaching:
- Computer Science Bachelor major (in Finnish)
- Computer Science Bachelor minor (in Finnish and English)
- CS-E4510 Distributed Algorithms
- CS-E4595 Competitive Programming
- CS-E4580 Programming Parallel Computers
- CS-A0100 Tietokone työvälineenä
Research Experience
Research group: Distributed Algorithms
HALT Helsinki Algorithms & Theory
Conferences:
- Keynote speaker in OPODIS 2020, SIROCCO 2026, SWAT 2020
- Invited speaker in SIROCCO 2023, SOFSEM 2026
- Track chair in SSS 2021
- In the programme committees of ALGOWIN 2023, DISC 2022, DISC 2024, ESA 2022, ESA 2023, FOCS 2025, ICALP 2025, ICALP 2026, ICDCS 2025, IWOCA 2021, IWOCA 2024, OPODIS 2021, OPODIS 2023, PODC 2022, PODC 2023, SIROCCO 2025, SIROCCO 2026, SODA 2023, SOSA 2026, SPAA 2020, STACS 2025, WOLA 2022
- In the steering committees of ADGA, RW-DIST, SWAT
Background
Research interests: theoretical foundations of distributed and parallel computing, algorithms, computational complexity, and computability. In charge of the Finnish Computer Science major (Tietotekniikka) and minor in our Bachelor’s program.