Software Systems

Software systems research centers on designing, engineering, and analyzing complex, secure, and intelligent digital infrastructures. Key focus areas include distributed systems, cloud/edge computing, software engineering, and AI-driven software, with a strong focus on practical, industrial, and social applications.

Research Area Leaders

Jukka Nurminen

Jukka Nurminen

Research Area Leader

People

Tom Bäckström

Tom Bäckström

1privacy-preserving speech technology, trust in speech technology, design of speech interfaces, low-resource speech processing, speech enhancement, speech coding
Casper Lassenius

Casper Lassenius

software engineering, AI for software engineering (AI4SE), software engineering for AI (SE4AI),software engineering management and organization, human aspects in software engineering, software metrics
Juho Leinonen

Juho Leinonen

computing education, AI in education, educational technology, learning analytics
Tomi Männistö

Tomi Männistö

software architectures, conceptual modelling, variability management, requirements engineering, AI for software development, software engineering education

Matti Siekkinen

streaming, XR, cloud computing
Hong-Linh Truong

Hong-Linh Truong

Johanna Viitanen

Johanna Viitanen

usability, user experience, human-centred design, health informatics, eHealth
Petri Vuorimaa

Petri Vuorimaa

Web Engineering, Front-end Development, Web Applications, Cloud/Edge Computing, Generative AI & Agent, Civic Agency in AI
Yu Xiao

Yu Xiao

wearable computing, edge computing, extended reality

Research Groups

Aalto SEA

Aalto SEA - Systems & Services Engineering Analytics

The Aalto Systems and Services Engineering Analytics (AaltoSEA) Group concentrates and consolidates research activities, resources, results, and collaborations on foundational principles, concepts and techniques for service engineering analytics of distributed software systems and services, big data applications, machine learning systems and IoT. We are a member of The Department of Computer Science, Aalto University. We also contribute to the newly established Aalto Center for Autonomous Systems. Recently, we have also started to study what does it mean software and services analytics in the age of quantum computing through the collaboration in The Finnish Quantum Institute. At Aalto we teach students to study topics in Big Data Platforms and Systems for Big Data/Machine Learning and supervise research theses in, for example, cloud computing, big data, IoT, edge computing, and ML.

ESE

Empirical Software Engineering


Empirical Software Engineering Helsinki (ESE) is a research group at the University of Helsinki. We address software engineering research problems and challenges with industrial relevance or origin. We emphasise the empirical aspect of the research, in particular by applying research methods that enable us gaining deep understanding of software development.

HCHI

Human-Centred Health Informatics (HCHI)

The HCHI group brings together research enthusiasts from various fields such as engineering, design, medicine, nursing and psychology.

Our research group focuses on
- Human-centred design of electronic health (eHealth) services
- Patient experience
- Usability of electronic health record (EHR) systems
- User experiences of health and social care professionals
- Usability in IT system procurement

wearable systems

mc² –Mobile Cloud Computing

The mc² –Mobile Cloud Computing group at Aalto University, founded in 2016, conducts experimental systems research on edge computing and services for cognitive manufacturing, autonomous driving and digital healthcare. With members from technically diverse backgrounds, the mc² group is active in multi-disciplinary research and industrial collaboration.

SPI

Speech Interaction Technology

Our goal is to improve spoken interaction, in applications such as telecommunication and speech interfaces. We develop methods which are efficient and sustainable with respect to resources and provide high sound quality and intuitive interaction while simultaneously retaining the privacy and trust of users. A particular area of interest is environments where multiple people interact with multiple devices, which requires advanced methods for communication, authentication, and processing.

Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo)

Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) researches machine-processable semantics related to, e.g., the Semantic Web. We are located at the Aalto University, School of Science, Department of Computer Science and HELDIG – Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Humanities. Our group consists of researchers both from the Aalto University, School of Science, Department of Computer Science and University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, and HELDIG.

Civic Agency in AI

Civic Agency in AI - CAAI

The CAAI (Civic Agency in AI) project aims to understand citizens’ algorithmic literacy, agency and participation in the design and development of AI services in the Finnish public sector in order to advance more democratic and citizen-centric digital infrastructures.

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