Curriculum Vitae

Full name

• Jorma Asko TARHIO

Personal data

• Born: 1952
• Marital status: married, no children

Education

• Ph.D. University of Helsinki (in Computer Science), 1988
• M.Sc. University of Helsinki (in Mathematics), 1976

Current position

• Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University

Previous positions

• 2010–17 Professor, Aalto University
• 2000–09 Professor, Helsinki University of Technology
• 1996–99 Associate professor, University of Joensuu
• 1989–96 Assistant professor, University of Helsinki
• 1986–88 Research associate, Academy of Finland
• 1980–85 Teaching assistant, University of Helsinki

Sidelines

• Adjunct professor (Docent), University of Eastern Finland/Joensuu, 2000–
• Adjunct professor (Docent), University of Helsinki, 1991–

Extended research visits

• 1993–94 University of California (Berkeley), U.S.A.
• 1984–85 N.C. State and Cornell Universities, U.S.A.

Supervised doctoral dissertations

• Sukhpal Ghuman, 2018
• Tamanna Chhabra, 2016
• Lauri Lahti, 2015
• Kalle Karhu, 2013
• Hannu Peltola, 2013
• Leena Salmela, 2009
• Erkki Sutinen, 1998 (jointly with E. Ukkonen)

Leading of research projects

• Indexed and Approximate Search of Multiple Patterns 2010–14 (Academy of Finland)
• Algorithms for Genomic Search Problems 2006–08 (Academy of Finland)
• Thinking Tools for the Net 2000–01 (National Technology Agency)
• Animation Aided Problem Solving 1996–99 (Ministry of Education)
• String Processing Algorithms 1994–96 (Academy of Finland)

Other academic activities

• Chair of ITiCSE 2000, the 5th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Helsinki, 2000
• Program committee memberships: PVW '00, '02, Koli Calling '02, SPIRE '00, '01, '02, '03, '05, '07, '09 (co-chair), SPLST '11, CPM '12, LATA '19, CSEDU '21
• Ph.D. theses: 12 pre-examinations, once opponent
• Head of department, Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, 1998–99
• Editor of Tietojenkäsittelytiede 2009-16

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