Tommi Karkkainen (TK) received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematical
Information Technology from the University of Jyvaskyla (JYU), in 1995.
Since 2002 he has been serving as a full professor of Mathematical
Information Technology at the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT),
JYU. TK has led 50 different R&D projects and has been supervising over 60
PhD students. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and
received the Innovation Prize of JYU in 2010. He has served in many
administrative positions at FIT and JYU, currently leading a Research
Division and a Research Group on Human and Machine based Intelligence in
Learning. The main research interests include data mining, machine
learning, learning analytics, and nanotechnology.
