People

Andrey Shcherbakov –

Eager to inspire students to the joy of learning using a rear combination of ICT education experience coupled with fifteen years’ visual journalist background in different media.

Johan Penttinen – Junior developer

Social Robots Dev at Arcada University of Applied Sciences

Dennis Biström – Head of DevLab

Dennis Biström is an IT-Lecturer and Researcher at Arcada UAS where he teaches full stack web programming and data managing, visualization and engineering. He is a PhD student at Åbo Akademi where he is researching human robot interaction (HRI).

Jonas Irjala – Junior developer

Hard working problem solver who is passionate about graphic design. Trained and experienced in Photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premier pro, sony vegas, office, word, excel and familiar with many more.

Kristoffer Kuvaja-Adolfsson – Developer

IT Engineer and previous practical nurse (7 years of working experience in education) from Sweden with a new found passion in IT. Currently working @Arcada University of Applied Sciences as a developer in various research projects. Always open for opportunities to further my knowledge, education and experience.

Leonardo Espinosa-Leal – Head of A²I Lab

I am a Principal Lecture in Technology & Head of A²ILab. I have a very broad range of research interests comprehending, but not limited to, areas such as autonomous intelligent machines, mining of big datasets, clustering of time series, causality, quantum machine learning, extreme learning machines, creative machines, philosophy of artificial intelligence, computer vision, deep reinforcement learning among many others.

Christa Tigerstedt – Head of RoboLab

Ms Tigerstedt (PhD) is a trainer, project manager and researcher at the Department of Business Management and Analytics at Arcada UAS.

Matteo Stocchetti – Principal lecturer

Matteo Stocchetti is Docent in Political Communication at Åbo Academy and Helsinki University, and Principal Lecturer in Media Culture at Arcada. His research interests include critical studies in politics, media & technology, pedagogy and epistemology.

Magnus Westerlund – Principal lecturer

Dr. Magnus Westerlund is a Principal Lecturer in Information Technology and Director of the Laboratory for Trustworthy AI at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland.

Robin Mildh – Junior Developer

Third year IT student with long term experience of open source tech. Proficient in setting up media servers and cloud providers, currently active on the MEDA Demos project.

Pekka Buttler – Researcher

Solidly standing with one foot in information systems science (including project management, usability, software business, systems design, open source) currently focusing on studying the interactions between people, organizations and projects. Finalizing my doctorate.

Niklas Eriksson – Head of BCILab

Niklas Eriksson is Principal lecturer in Digital marketing and he holds a PhD in Information Systems. His main area of teaching and research is technology adoption and use in different industries.

Woubishet Taffese – Postdoctoral Researcher

Developing AI models that predict carbonation depth, chloride profile, chloride diffusivity, and hygrothermal performance in concrete structures as well as physical and mechanical properties of stabilized soils.

Kaj-Mikael Björk – Head of RiskLab

Kaj-Mikael Björk is the Principal Lecturer in Analytics and Logistics, Research Director of Risklab at Arcada and Head of Research of Silo.AI.

Amin Majd – Former posdoctoral researcher

Former postdoctoral researcher (2020-2022), now Senior advisor at Turku University of Applied Sciences.

Truong An Pham – Researcher

A Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Computer Interaction researcher.

Areas of expertise