Curriculum Vitae
Basic information
| Name: | Matti Karppa |
| Address: | Maininkitie 9 G 93, 02320 Espoo, Finland |
| Phone number: | +358 44 0499 708 |
| Email: | firstname.lastname@gmail.com |
| Citizenship: | Finnish |
| Date and place of birth: | January 10, 1987, Jyväskylä, Finland |
Education
Doctor of Science (Technology), Aalto University, Computer Science (in progress)
Thesis title: On bilinear techniques for similarity search and Boolean matrix multiplication
Graduation: Summer 2019 (expected)
Master of Science (Technology), Aalto University, Computer Science, 29.8.2014, Espoo
Major: Computer and Information Science
Minors: Language Technology, Discrete Mathematics
MSc. thesis: Estimating Hand Configurations from Sign Language Videos
Bachelor of Science (Technology), Aalto University, Computer Science, 31.1.2014, Espoo
Major: Computer and Information Science
Minor: Computer Science and Engineering
BSc. thesis: Model-based Hand Tracking Methods and their Applicability to Estimating Hand
Configurations in Sign Language Videos, 2011, approved with honors (in Finnish)
Matriculation Examination, Vääksyn Yhteiskoulu, 05/2006
Language skills
Finnish: native
English: excellent (C2)
Work experience
USS Vincit Science Officer, Vincit Group Oyj, 02/2019–
Postgraduate Researcher, Aalto University, Department of
Computer Science, 09/2014–01/2019
Undergraduate Researcher, Aalto University,
Department of Information and Computer Science, 06/2010–08/2014
System specialist, Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira,
01/2009–08/2009, 07/2007–08/2008
Teaching qualifications
Pedagogical studies for teachers, University of Helsinki (60 ECTS)
I have qualifications for teaching computer science (120 ECTS) and mathematics (60 ECTS).
IT skills
Programming languages: C++, Python, MATLAB, C, FORTRAN, Scala, Java, shell scripts, etc.
Libraries: MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, NumPy, etc.
Operating systems: GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Microsoft Windows
Tools: Emacs, git, CVS, GCC, CLang, make, CMake, GDB, etc.
Miscellaneous: LaTeX, HTML/CSS/SQL