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Prof. Antti Oulasvirta

Antti Oulasvirta leads the Computational Behavior Lab (cbl.aalto.fi) at Aalto University and the Interactive AI research program at FCAI (Finnish Center for AI). Prior to joining Aalto, he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland university. He received his doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, after which he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Information in University of California-Berkeley in 2007-2008 and a Senior Researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT in 2008-2011. During his postgraduate studies in 2002-2003, he was an exchange student at UC Berkeley's Neuropsychology Lab. He was awarded the ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020) for research on computational design of user interfaces and the ERC Advanced Grant (2024-2029) for studying computational models of human behavior. Dr. Oulasvirta serves as an associate editor for ACM TOCHI and has previously served International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, as well as served as a column editor for IEEE Computer. He frequently participates in the paper committees of HCI conferences, including the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). His work has been awarded the Best Paper Award and Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI fifteen times between 2008 and 2024. He has held keynote talks at NordiCHI'14, CoDIT'14, EICS'16, IHCI'17, ICWE'19, Chinese CHI'19, and IS-EUD'23. He is a Fellow of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). In 2019, he was invited to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He was a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2011 and in 2022.

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Teaching

We organize a Human-Computer Interaction major in the CCIS Master's program, with a specialization in computational methods. Key courses: See Aalto MyCourses for details.

We always have several exciting Master's thesis topics. To inquire topics, please email me with your CV, transcript, and letter of interest. We also offer internship possiblities for Aalto and foreign students.

Postdocs and PhD Students

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Note! We are always looking for outstanding PhD students and postdocs. See our group page.

Contact

Computer Science Building, Department of Communications and Networking, Konemiehentie 2, 13000 Aalto University, Finland
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