Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä
The Faculty of Information Technology responds to the research and educational challenges of the fast-developing fields of information technology and digitalization. The faculty brings together the different perspectives of technology, information science, organizational studies, business and the human viewpoint, to provide fresh insights into research, education and stakeholder collaboration.
The Faculty of Information Technology is the most multifaceted academic unit in the field of information technology and it has an internationally recognized unique profile. It is Finland's oldest Faculty of Information Technology, with teaching commencing in 1967.
Research areas:
- Applied mathematics & Computational science
- Computer science & telecommunication
- Information systems
- Learning and Cognitive Sciences
Crosscutting research themes:
- Cyber security
- Computational thinking data, Data science & Decision maker
- Disruptive technologies
Research groups operating within research areas and crosscutting themes:
- Collective Intelligence – Professor Vagan Terziyan
- Computing Education Research – Docent Ville Isomöttönen
- Empirical Cyber Security and Software Engineering – Professor Pekka Abrahamsson
- Human and Machine based Intelligence in Learning – Professor Tommi Kärkkäinen
- Human-Technology Interaction (Cognitive Science) – PhD Tuomo Kujala
- Multi-objective Optimization – Professor Kaisa Miettinen
- Secure Communications Engineering and Signal Processing – Professor Timo Hämäläinen
- Computing, Information Technology and Mathematics – Professor Lauri Kettunen
- Value Creation for Cyber-Physical Systems and Services – Professor Tuure Tuunanen
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