Science Outreach

Media Appearances

I was interviewed by the Finish Broadcasting Company for a podcast on the Trustworthiness of AI.

Meet a Researcher

I am currently a board member of Young Academy of Finland in charge of science outreach. As part of that position I am involved with developing and maintaining the meet a researcher initiative that coordinates research visits to schools. The service is very popular, last year we organized 600 visits and reached over 10 000 students. In early 2024 I participated in the EDUCA conference with the aim of increasing awareness of the service.

UniJunior

Since 2020 I have been a member of the steering group of UniJunior a cross-disciplinary project led by Professor Gunilla Holm that studies science workshops for children ages 9-12 as learning environments.

We organize about 10 workshops annually for about 20 children. Each workshop is led by a researcher in some specific subject and aims to encourage an interest in science in the children. Personally I have organized 4 different workshops:

Positions of Trust Based on Scientific Merit

• In 2023-2024 I am a board member of Young Academy Finland, an invite-only society for young researchers that invites one computer science researcher per year based on scientific merit.
• Since 2021 I have been a board member of Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (FAIS), the official member society of Present Finland in the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).
• Since 2020 I have been an expert member of PhD Research Scholarship Selection Committee of Nylands Nation, a student organization at University of Helsinki that awards EUR 250k in scholarships annually

Conference Organization

• In 2025 I will be co-chair of the program committee of the International Conferences on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT).
• In 2022 I was a local organizer of the 12th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems.
• In 2021 I was chair of the doctoral program of the 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming.
  • The doctoral program is a one-day event where the doctoral students can present their work for each other.
• In 2012 I was a local organizer of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability.

Reviewing

• I have been a conference reviewer (member of the program committee) at CP 2021-22 & 2024, CPAIOR 2021, 2024, SAT 2020-24, AAAI 2019-24, IJCAI 2019-24 TACAS 2021, IJCAI-DEMOS 2020-21, POS 2020-21 and 2024, UAI 2024, and ECAI 2024.
• I have been a reviewer for Artificial Intelligence Journal, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Logic and Computation, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation, and Acta Informatica.

Competition Organization

• SInce 2019 I have been one of the organizer of the annual MaxSAT Evaluations, the de-facto international event for evaluating the performance of state-of-the-art MaxSAT solvers.