Doctoral Researchers

28.10.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Samuel Kujala

CONVERGENCE Actor-researcher Samuel Kujala believes that the relationship between actors and technology can fuel creativity.

17.9.2024

Jurgis Peters’ work sits at the nexus of art, technology, and emotion. His ambition is to develop affective virtual worlds—spaces that use AI to understand and respond to the emotional states of viewers.

13.9.2024

KNOW OUR TEAM: Linas Gabrielaitis

Linas Gabrielaitis investigates how digital environments in games reflect Earth's ecosystems

3.9.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Lotta Ylinen

Lotta Ylinen develops tech solutions to address rising loneliness as those experiences have increased, particularly among young adults, and loneliness is known to be linked to mental and physical health challenges as well as to work-related problems.

23.8.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Ninja Kajas

The focus of Ninja' work is the sense of touch, which she considers the most interesting of all our senses. Ninja studies how touch can be mimicked and integrated into different technologies, such as robotics and medical devices.

1.7.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Tippayaporn Pavavimol

Anns’s current research focus lies in the realm of extended reality, an area experiencing significant growth and potential. Her primary interest is in media design within XR, including content creation and consumption, while being under heavy wireless communications impact.

12.6.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Suman Ghosh

Suman Ghosh is building a virtual museum of protest art. He is immersed in a multidisciplinary team that delves deep into affective computing, augmented reality and AI, among other areas.

8.6.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Hsiao-Chun Lin

Hsiao-Chun Lin trains AI to detect emotions quickly and accurately, while focusing on how AI can be integrated into education to improve learning outcomes.

6.6.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam

Partha´s current research focuses on socially aware machine perception, a natural extension of his earlier work in multimodal machine perception, which combines audio and language modalities.

1.6.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: José Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira

José is committed to ensuring that AI technologies serve humanity ethically and responsibly.

12.5.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Reza Shafiloo

Reza Shafiloo's research has the potential to impact how we interact with online shopping sites, search engines, and music services in the future.

10.5.2024

MEET OUR TEAM: Henri Pullinen

Henri's research focuses on the use of AI tools, such as chatbots, to moderate political social media discussions. He plans to develop a chatbot that reinforces empathy and test its use in a social media experiment.

Category: Doctoral Researchers