Digital Economy is a multidisciplinary and phenomenon-driven research platform, focusing on the impacts of digital transformation on industry and society.

Professors

Name	Role	Research area
Arto Ojala	Coordinator of Digital Economy Platform, Professor	Space Business, Space Entrepreneurship, Space Business Models and Ecosystems
Ali Nadir Arslan	Professor	Remote Sensing and its applications to science and society
Petri Välisuo	Professor	Remote sensing, positioning, data centers
Rebekah Rousi	Professor	Cognitive science, Human-AI/robot interaction, creative arts, cultural studies, user experience, cognitive systems, cognitive resilience
Marika Salo-Lahti	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Law (especially related to FinTech, AI and sustainability)
Jani Boutellier	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Elham Ahmadi	Assistant Professor (tenure track)	GNSS, Reliable Positioning, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, Sensor Fusion
Ville Tuomi	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Digital competences and project management and quality management; business models; sustainability

Researchers

Name	Role	Research area
Vaiva Stanisauskaite	Project Researcher & Project Manager	Business creation, business models, entrepreneurship, business networks
Terhi Mäki-Turja	Research Assistant	Machine learning, data
Giang Tran	Project Researcher	Environment and sustainability, renewable energy (hydro and wind), environmental law
Eeva Rauramo	Doctoral Researcher	Xbrl data, accunts payable automation
Minhaz Uddin	Research Assistant	Machine learning, physics-informed modeling, prediction modeling and architecture, building energy systems
Noman Chowdhury	Project Researcher	GNSS
Pradeep Bonda	Project Researcher	Physics Informed Machine Learning, Robotic Control
Kannan Selvan	Project Researcher	Positioning, Machine Learning
Cem Özcan	Programmer & Project Researcher	Earth Observation, Remote Sensing
Jaakko Yliaho	Laboratory Engineer	Positioning, space data
Sema Cil	Project Researcher	Remote sensing, Satellite and Radar Meteorology, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Observation, Applied Meteorology
Essi Nousiainen	Postdoctoral Researcher	Accounting, textual analysis, ML/AI in business, sustainability reporting, ESG
Hussain Kahil	Project Researcher	Control system, Reinforcement Learning (RL), Fuzzy logic, Robotics, and data centers energy efficiency
Pawan Kapur	Doctoral Researcher	Earth Observation, Hyperspectral Images, Remote Sensing, Fuzzy Logic, Machine Learning, Astronomy
Sadia Tangem	Doctoral Researcher	Space Economy, Space Sustainability, Business Network, Space SMEs business model
Mahmoud Elsanhoury	Postdoctoral Researcher	Ubiquitous positioning systems, GNSS interference, indoor positioning systems, low Earth orbit satellite positioning or LEO-PNT, and multi-sensor fusion technologies

Other personnel