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

Leadership team

Name	Role	Research area
Arto Ojala	Coordinator of Digital Economy Platform, Professor	International and space business, entrepreneurship, information systems
Marko Järvenpää	Dean	Accounting and sustainability, network control, digitalisation, analytics
Petri Välisuo	Professor	Remote sensing, positioning, data centers
Marika Salo-Lahti	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Law (especially related to FinTech, AI and sustainability)
Tuomas Huikkola	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Industrial services and the strategic, dynamic, and relational capabilities of manufacturing companies

Professors

Name	Role	Research area
Ali Nadir Arslan	Professor	Remote Sensing and its applications to science and society
Rebekah Rousi	Professor	Cognitive science, Human-AI/robot interaction, creative arts, cultural studies, user experience, cognitive systems, cognitive resilience
Catharina von Koskull	Professor	Marketing and management, service innovation, consumer wellbeing and voice, ethnography
Jani Boutellier	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Computer vision, machine learning
Ahm Shamsuzzoha	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Green and sustainable innovation, product design and modularity, supply chain and logistics management, digitalization of entrepreneurship, business networking
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
Emilene Leite	Associate Professor (tenure track)	International business ecosystems, societal impact, smart city innovation
Anupam Dutta	Associate Professor (tenure track)	Sustainable finance, econometrics of financial markets, FinTech
Heidi Hirsto	Associate Professor	Economic & financial discourses; business-society relations, ethics & responsibility; online influencer & consumer cultures; cultural & critical approaches to organizational communication

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
Minhaz Uddin	Research Assistant	Machine learning, physics-informed modeling, prediction modeling and architecture, building energy systems
Pragati Bhandari	Research Assistant	AI & robotics, GNSS, navigation & autonomous systems, ML, signal processing, software engineering
Amin Akbari Tochaei	Research Assistant
Rifaiya Abrar	Research Assistant	ML, computer vision, web and software development
Shafay Abid	Research Assistant	AI, data, LLMs, GNSS, Python
Giang Tran	Project Researcher	Environment and sustainability, renewable energy (hydro and wind), environmental law
Abol Basher	Project Researcher	ML, computer vision, 3D representation, medical imaging
Noman Chowdhury	Project Researcher	GNSS
Pradeep Bonda	Project Researcher	Physics Informed Machine Learning, Robotic Control
Kannan Selvan	Project Researcher	Positioning, Machine Learning
Masud Fahim	Project Researcher	AI, ML, computer vision, deep learning, MATLAB
Cem Özcan	Project Researcher & Programmer	Earth Observation, Remote Sensing
Sema Cil	Project Researcher	Remote sensing, Satellite and Radar Meteorology, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Observation, Applied Meteorology
Hussain Kahil	Project Researcher	Control system, Reinforcement Learning (RL), Fuzzy logic, Robotics, and data centers energy efficiency
Eldrige De Melo	Doctoral Student	Project management in aerospace, satcom skills
Pawan Kapur	Doctoral Researcher	Earth Observation, Hyperspectral Images, Remote Sensing, Fuzzy Logic, Machine Learning, Astronomy
Syed Naqvi	Doctoral Researcher	Cybersecurity, deep learning, intelligent intrusion detection systems
Eeva Rauramo	Doctoral Researcher	Xbrl data, accunts payable automation
Sadia Tangem	Doctoral Researcher	Space Economy, Space Sustainability, Business Network, Space SMEs business model
Rakibul Hasan	Doctoral Researcher	AI, new space, international business, information systems, management, sustainable development
Qingchao Zeng	Doctoral Researcher
Mia-Kristina Lager	Doctoral Researcher	AI, examining its societal, ethical, and economic dimension
Adeel Arif	Doctoral Researcher
Lasse Romppanen	Doctoral Researcher	Risk management; obesity-related disclosures of food and beverage companies
Reihaneh Kouhi Esfahani	Doctoral Researcher	Data science, data analysis, data-driven marketing
Natasha Stillman	Doctoral Researcher	International relations, public policy, AI & ethics, health equity, technology policy
Anuruddika Ratnamalala Bandaralage	Doctoral Researcher	Blockchain, machine learning, Fintech, data analytics, digitalization
Thilini Mudiyanse	Doctoral Researcher	AI in international marketing for SMEs; digital platforms, sustainability, internationalization
Talal Saleh	Doctoral Researcher	Smart energy, smart grids, 5G, AI
Ville Vakkuri	Postdoctoral Researcher	Ethical consideration with software engineering practices and AI system development
Mahmoud Elsanhoury	Postdoctoral Researcher	Ubiquitous positioning systems, GNSS interference, indoor positioning systems, low Earth orbit satellite positioning or LEO-PNT, multi-sensor fusion technologies
Essi Nousiainen	Postdoctoral Researcher	Accounting, textual analysis, ML/AI in business, sustainability reporting, ESG
Khaled Abed Alghani	Postdoctoral Researcher	Strategic business development, management consulting, global virtual team coaching
Olena Maslyukivska	Researcher	Environmental economics, climate governance, sustainability policy with practical implementation through public institutions
Anne Laajalahti	Senior Researcher	Communication (strategic, crisis, leadership, workplace, interpersonal), communication management, AI and ethics
Mike Mekkanen	Senior Researcher	IEC 61850, smart grid, substation automation system, digital substation, wireless communication, embedded system

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