Education
Sept 2021 - present
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Doctoral student, Computer Science
Supervised by Prof. Mikko Kivelä, advised by Dr. Barbara Keller.
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
CENTAI Institute, Turin, Italy
Visiting doctoral student
Sept 2019 - Aug 2021
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
M. Sc. in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences (with Honors)
Majored in Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Supported by the doctoral track program.
Sept 2012 - Jun 2017
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
B. Eng. in Software Engineering
Sept 2015 - Dec 2015
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Undergraduate exchange student
Presentations
Jul 2023
IC2S2 2023 @Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: Did the Russian invasion of Ukraine depolarize political discussions on Finnish social media? (Poster)
Jun 2022
ICWSM 2022 @Atlanta, US and online
Title: Limits of Multilayer Diffusion Network Inference in Social Media Research
Feb 2021
Title: Examining the Spreading Virality of Tweets in Climate Discussions
Oct 2020
CSCW 2020 @online
Title: Exploring Antecedents and Consequences of Toxicity in Online Discussions: A Case Study on Reddit
Funding
Feb 2023
HIIT Activity Funding, co-applied with Dr. Barbara Keller
Covered half the cost of the research visit to the CENTAI Institute, Italy.
Teaching
Feb 2023 - May 2023
Computational Social Science @Aalto University
Teaching assistant, supervised by Prof. Mikko Kivelä
Helped test course assignments, host exercise sessions, and grade course projects.
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Special Course in Computational Social Science @Aalto University
Teaching assistant, supervised by Prof. Mikko Kivelä
Helped design course assignments, set up the course environment, and introduce the course project.
Other Experience
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Media Technology Intern @New York University Shanghai, China
Assisted with the design, setup, testing and evaluation of websites for academic use; supported faculty in teaching by producing course videos.