Jukka Suomela
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
T313 Dept. Computer Science
Jukka Suomela is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, Finland. His work focuses on the theoretical foundations of distributed and parallel computing, with particular emphasis on the concept of locality. He was the PC chair of DISC 2019 and SIROCCO 2016 and one of the local chairs of ALGO 2018, he has served in the EATCS council, and he is currently the vice chair of the DISC steering committee. He has received the FOCS 2019 best paper award and DISC 2012 and 2017 best paper awards, as well as a number of teaching awards.
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Email
jukka.suomela@aalto.fi
Phone number
+358456555555
Areas of expertise
Distributed Computing, Distributed Algorithms, Local algorithms, Parallel computing, Parallel algorithms, Graph algorithms
Honors and awards
Best Paper Award at the 60th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2019)
FOCS 2019 Best Paper Award for "Lower bounds for maximal matchings and maximal independent sets"<br/>
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Professorship Suomela J.
Jan 2019
Best paper award, 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)
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Professorship Suomela J.
Jan 2017
MSc thesis award 2006, the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki
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Department of Computer Science
Jan 2006
The best junior researcher 2008, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Department of Computer Science
Jan 2008
The best large course of the CSE degree programme, at Aalto University
Based on the student feedback, academic year 2014–2015
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Department of Computer Science
Jan 2015
Nokia Scholarship 2008, Nokia Foundation
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Department of Computer Science
Jan 2008
Best paper award, at the 4th International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks (Algosensors 2008), ReykjavÃk, Iceland
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Department of Computer Science
Jan 2008
Best paper award, at the 26th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2012), Salvador, Brazil
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Department of Computer Science
Jan 2012
Research groups
- Computer Science Professors, Professor (Associate Professor)
- Computer Science - Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) - Research area, Professor (Associate Professor)
- Computer Science - Large-scale Computing and Data Analysis (LSCA) - Research area, Professor (Associate Professor)
- Professorship Suomela J., Professor (Associate Professor)
Publications
Anubhav Dhar, Eli Kujawa, Henrik Lievonen, Augusto Modanese, Mikail Müftüoglu, Jan Studený, Jukka Suomela
2025
28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)
Margherita Fantoli, Jukka Suomela, Toon Van Hal, Mark Depauw, Lari Virkki, Mikko Tolonen
2025
Journal of Cultural Analytics
Alkida Balliu, Sebastian Brandt, Fabian Kuhn, Krzysztof Nowicki, Dennis Olivetti, Eva Rotenberg, Jukka Suomela
2024
PODC 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Francesco D'Amore, Rishikesh Gajjala, Fabian Kuhn, François Le Gall, Henrik Lievonen, Augusto Modanese, Marc Olivier Renou, Gustav Schmid, Jukka Suomela
2024
STOC 2024 - Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
Sameep Dahal, Jukka Suomela
2024
Theoretical Computer Science
Henrik Lievonen, Timothé Picavet, Jukka Suomela
2024
Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 31st International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2024, Proceedings
Tanja Säily, Martin Hilpert, Jukka Suomela
2024
Crossing Boundaries through Corpora : Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics
Amirreza Akbari, Navid Eslami, Henrik Lievonen, Darya Melnyk, Joona Särkijärvi, Jukka Suomela
2023
50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2023
Alkida Balliu, Sebastian Brandt, Yi Jun Chang, Dennis Olivetti, Jan Studený, Jukka Suomela, Aleksandr Tereshchenko
2023
Distributed Computing
Alkida Balliu, Janne H. Korhonen, Fabian Kühn, Henrik Lievonen, Dennis Olivetti, Shreyas Pai, Ami Paz, Joel Rybicki, Stefan Schmid, Jan Studený, Jukka Suomela, Jara Uitto
2023
2023 Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms, SOSA 2023, Florence, Italy, January 23-25, 2023