Antti Oulasvirta

Prof. Antti Oulasvirta

Antti Oulasvirta leads the Computational Behavior Lab (cbl.aalto.fi) at Aalto University and the Interactive AI research program at FCAI (Finnish Center for AI). Prior to joining Aalto, he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland university. He received his doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, after which he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Information in University of California-Berkeley in 2007-2008 and a Senior Researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT in 2008-2011. During his postgraduate studies in 2002-2003, he was an exchange student at UC Berkeley's Neuropsychology Lab. He was awarded the ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020) for research on computational design of user interfaces and the ERC Advanced Grant (2024-2029) for studying computational models of human behavior. Dr. Oulasvirta serves as an associate editor for ACM TOCHI and has previously served International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, as well as served as a column editor for IEEE Computer. He frequently participates in the paper committees of HCI conferences, including the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). His work has been awarded the Best Paper Award and Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI fifteen times between 2008 and 2024. He has held keynote talks at NordiCHI'14, CoDIT'14, EICS'16, IHCI'17, ICWE'19, Chinese CHI'19, and IS-EUD'23. He is a Fellow of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). In 2019, he was invited to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He was a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2011 and in 2022.

Research Lead

Publications

Full publication list in Scholar

Books

Awards and Recognition

2022 SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow
2022 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention x 2
2019 Invited to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
2019 MobileHCI Best Paper Honorable Mention
2019 Member of ELLIS (European Laboratory of Learning and Intelligent Systems)
2018 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention x 2
2017 CHI Best Paper Award x 2
2016 CHI Best Paper Award
2015 CHI Best Paper Award
2015 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention
2014 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention
2013 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention
2013 MUM Best Paper Nomination
2013 MobileHCI Most Influential Paper Award
2011 CHI Best Paper Award
2011 MobileHCI Best Note Award
2011 SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow
2009 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention
2008 CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention

Teaching

We organize a Human-Computer Interaction major in the CCIS Master's program, with a specialization in computational methods. Key courses:

ELEC-E7852 Computational Design and Interaction (our flagship course)
ELEC-D7011 Human Factors Engineering (undergraduate introduction to human factors engineering)
ELEC-E7861 Research Project in Human-Computer Interaction
ELEC-E7870 Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction

See Aalto MyCourses for details.

We always have several exciting Master's thesis topics. To inquire topics, please email me with your CV, transcript, and letter of interest. We also offer internship possiblities for Aalto and foreign students.

Postdocs and PhD Students

Postdocs (current and former)

Dr. Hee-Seung Moon, intelligent ML (joined from Yonsei)
Dr. Joon-Gi Shin, interaction design (joined from KAIST)
Dr. Danqing Shi, visualization and behavioral modeling (joined from Tongi)
Dr. Suyog Chandramouli, cognitive science (joined from Indiana)
Dr. Zhenhui Peng, intelligent systems (now prof at Sun Yat-Sen University)
Dr. Xiuli Chen, cognitive science (now at Yelp!)
Dr. Aurelien Nioche, cognitive science (now at Glasgow Uni)
Dr. Kashyap Todi, interactive systems (now at Meta)
Dr. Luis Leiva, human-computer interaction and ML (now prof at Uni Luxembourg)
Dr. Jussi Jokinen, computational cognitive science (now prof at Uni Jyvaskyla)
Dr. Niraj Dayama, optimization (now at Arcada)
Dr. Sunjun Kim, interaction techniques (now prof at DGIST)
Dr. Markku Laine, web technology
Dr. Byungjoo Lee, modeling and input techniques (now prof at Yonsei University)
Dr. Ai Nakajima, interactive systems (now research scientist at CSC)
Dr. Mathieu Nancel, input devices (now research scientist at INRIA Lille)
Dr. Gilles Bailly, input and menus (now research director at CNRS)
Dr. Daryl Weir, modeling (now data scientist at Futurice)

PhD students (current):

Yue Jiang (supervised with Vikas Garg), Aalto University
Yi-Chi Liao, Aalto University
Aini Putkonen, Aalto University
Lena Hegemann, Aalto University
Anna Riha (2nd supervisor), Aalto University
Yifan Zhu (2nd supervisor), Aalto University
Katri Leino (2nd supervisor), Aalto University

PhD students (graduated):

Morteza Shiripour (Fall 2022), Aalto University
Maria Montoya Freire (2nd supervisor), Aalto University
Janin Koch, Aalto University (now prof. at University of Paris Saclay)
Anna Feit, Aalto University SIGCHI Best Dissertation Award 2019 (now prof. at Saarland University)
Srinath Sridhar (2nd supervisor), Saarland University, defended 2016 (now prof. at Brown University)
Myroslav Bachynskyi, Saarland University, defended 2016 (now prof. at Bergen)
Kumaripaba Athukorala (2nd supervisor), University of Helsinki, defended 2016 (now at Rovio)
Eeva Raita, University of Helsinki, defended 2015 (now at Futurice)
Joanna Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, Aalto University, defended 2014 (now prof. at University of Copenhagen)
Airi Lampinen, University of Helsinki, defended 2014 (now prof. at Stockholm University)
Antti Salovaara, University of Helsinki, defended 2012 (now senior lecturer at Aalto ARTS)

Note! We are always looking for outstanding PhD students and postdocs. See our group page.

Contact

Computer Science Building, Department of Communications and Networking, Konemiehentie 2, 13000 Aalto University, Finland
Email: firstname dot lastname at aalto dot fi