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Alumna Bismoy Jahan: The things I learned from Aalto are related to real-life problems
Bismoy Jahan chose the Master鈥檚 Programme in Automation and Electrical Engineering because she believes that in the near future automation will play a big role in our lives.

A fascination with light and its possibilities drives Professor Zhipei Sun鈥檚 research
Aalto University's Professor Zhipei Sun is on the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list for the third time 鈥 congratulations!
Dragons out! Kari Kakkonen employs fantasy to lead children into the world of software testing
A ground-breaking children鈥檚 book on software testing brought Aalto University alumnus Kari Kakkonen the EuroSTAR Software Testing Excellence Award.

Assistant professor Yu Xiao: Making daily activities easier with Extended Reality
Daily life is the ground for the research projects by assistant professor Yu Xiao and her group at Aalto University.

Mariana Amatullo appointed 91青青草 University Board
Mikko Kosonen and Ilkka Kivim盲ki to continue for a new three-year term.
Language technology combines alumna Tiina Lindh-Knuutila's interests
According to Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, language technology and machine learning offer enormous opportunities for many kinds of people.

Student Verneri Hirvonen: 鈥楽tudying at Aalto University is extremely flexible鈥
Verneri is the first student to graduate from the Digital Systems and Design major

鈥淲hat I鈥檓 really looking forward to is hanging out!鈥
We鈥檙e interviewing our students about their experience of studying during covid. Here, we speak to Afrin Hossain about her year

Helsinki GSE strengthens economic expertise in transport and education with three new professorships
Prottoy Aman Akbar and Pablo Ernesto Warnes will take up their positions at Aalto University at the beginning of August, Kristiina Huttunen started already in March.

Tutor Oskari Ponkala: Tutoring experience makes you grow
Electronics and Electrical Engineering student Oskari found introducing Finnish sauna culture to international students and interesting conversations unforgettable

Tutor Minh Duc Pham: Let the experience live on!
Electrical and Automation Engineering student Duc decided to get more involved in student activities during his Master鈥檚 studies and became a tutor

Associate Professor Matti Kummu understands the importance of water in all life
From being a young researcher in a development project in Cambodia to being an Associate Professor at Aalto, Matti Kummu has had an impact on not just on research, but also on his colleagues as a researcher, teacher and mentor in the field of water resources.

Student Silva Robbins: A career as a doctor is not the only option for those interested in medicine
Silva studies bioinformation technology and participates actively in student life. She sees the Otaniemi campus as unique because it brings different fields and their student cultures together.

Living with roommates at the campus has helped Th茅otime Lemoine to cope with remote studying
Th茅otime Lemoine has learned and enjoyed the Finnish way of life during his exchange in Aalto.

Former Nokia executive Tero Ojanper盲 believes intelligent platforms could be next success story for Finland
New professor of practice wants to apply his AI expertise and make sure usable innovations are brought from research papers into practical use.

Experiencing the Helsinki winter has been magical for exchange student Andrea Moglianesi
Although pandemic restrictions have made studying harder, Andrea has managed to have a good study experience in Aalto.
Maire Syrj盲kari has promoted pedagogical expertise since the early days of Aalto
University pedagogics expert Maire Syrj盲kari believes that the environment and the positive and open atmosphere of the School of Engineering enable and support the development of teaching communally.

Student Niina Tapanainen: I study technology because I want to improve people's lives
During her bachelor's studies, Niina selected information technology as her major. She is encouraging people to be open-minded about combining technology and the humanities.

Student Zachary Burda wants to develop robots that make people's everyday lives easier
Zachary studies automation and robotics and he has admired Aalto's modern and entrepreneur-friendly outlook since he was in upper secondary school

Discovering new materials in data
FCAI member Milica Todorovi膰 uses computational methods for material science, training AI on her field's vast databases to speed up the search for tomorrow's functional materials.
