Organizers
ADVISORS
Antti Oulasvirta
Aalto University
Antti Oulasvirta leads the Computational Behavior Lab at Aalto University and the Interactive AI research program at FCAI (Finnish Center for AI). Prior to joining Aalto, he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland University. He received his doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, after which he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Information in the University of California-Berkeley in 2007-2008 and a Senior Researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT in 2008-2011. During his postgraduate studies in 2002-2003, he was an exchange student at UC Berkeley's Neuropsychology Lab. He was awarded the ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020) for research on computational design of user interfaces. Dr. Oulasvirta serves as an associate editor for ACM TOCHI and has previously served International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, as well as served as a column editor for IEEE Computer. He frequently participates in the paper committees of HCI conferences, including the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). His work has been awarded the Best Paper Award and Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI fifteen times between 2008 and 2022. He has held keynote talks at NordiCHI'14, CoDIT'14, EICS'16, IHCI'17, ICWE'19, Chinese CHI'19, and IS-EUD'23. He is a member of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). In 2019, he was invited to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He was a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2011 and in 2022.
Mingfei Sun
University of Manchester
Mingfei Sun is currently a lecturer (Assistant Professor) from Department of Computer Science in the University of Manchester. His research covers large-scale deep reinforcement learning, policy gradient methods, and generative models. He is applying these methods to problems in video games, robotics and multi-agent systems. Before joining University of Manchester, Mingfei Sun worked in Microsoft Research Cambridge as a researcher on foundation models, and University of Oxford as a research associate on multiagent systems. His research works have been recognized in NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, CHI, TOCHI etc.
Samuel Kaski
Aalto University
Samuel Kaski is a professor of Computer Science at Aalto University and professor of AI in The University of Manchester. He leads the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI, ELLIS Unit Helsinki and the ELISE EU Network of AI Excellence Centres. He received the Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship in 2021. His field is probabilistic machine learning, with applications in new kinds of collaborative AI-assistants able to work well with humans in modeling, design and decision tasks. Application domains include computational biology and medicine, brain signal analysis, information retrieval and user modeling. Prof. Kaski is an ELLIS Fellow, UKRI Turing AI Fellow, and Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
