Science Outreach

Media Appearances

I was interviewed by the Finish Broadcasting Company 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, CPAIOR 2021, SAT 2020-23, AAAI 2019-23, IJCAI 2019-23 TACAS 2021, IJCAI-DEMOS 2020-21, POS 2020-21
• I have been a reviewer for Artificial Intelligence Journal, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Logic and Computation, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.