Jussi Kangasharju
Contact Information
![]() | Prof. Jussi Kangasharju |
| Department of Computer Science | |
| PL 68 (Gustaf Hallstromin katu 2b) | |
| 00014 University of Helsinki | |
| Finland | |
| Tel: +358 9 191 51379 (redirects to mobile) | |
| Fax: +358 9 191 51120 | |
| Email: Spam-proof address (You can use it to send mail, but do not save this address, as it is valid only for 3 days from use. Remove the dash and the numbers and letter between it and the at-sign to get the permanent address.) | |
| WWW: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jakangas |
Office hours: Thursdays 13-14, room D233 in Exactum, or ask for an appointment by email.
I share my time between Kumpula and Otaniemi (Innopoli) and in spring 2012 I will typically be in Otaniemi on Wednesdays. Below you can also see my travel schedule which shows when I'm out of town. You can also subscribe to my travel calendar feed on TripIt.
Short Bio
Jussi Kangasharju received his MSc from Helsinki University of Technology in 1998. He received his Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) from the Ecole Superieure des Sciences Informatiques (ESSI) in Sophia Antipolis in 1998. In 2002 he received his PhD from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis/Institut Eurecom. In 2002 he joined Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD), first as post-doctoral researcher, and from 2004 onwards as assistant professor. In 2007 he successfully passed his 3-year evaluation for a contract extension at TUD. Since June 2007 Jussi is a professor at the department of computer science at University of Helsinki. Since January 2009 he is also the director of the Future Internet research program at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). Jussi's research interests are peer-to-peer technologies, content distribution, pervasive computing, and future Internet development. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Research
My research interests are networking and distributed systems, in particular in the following areas:
- Peer-to-peer technologies
- Content distribution
- Pervasive computing and communications
- Future Internet technologies
Publications
Please see the full list of my publications.
Teaching
- Johdatus tietojenkäsittelytieteeseen (in Finnish; Spring 2010)
- Seminar: Mobile Communications (Spring 2010)
- Distributed Systems (Fall 09)
- Seminar: Hot Topics in IETF (Fall 09)
- Seminar: Peer-to-Peer Systems (Spring 09)
- Distributed Systems (Fall 08)
- Peer-to-Peer Networks (Fall 08)
- Seminar: Future Internet and Hot Topics in Networking (Fall 08)
- Peer-to-Peer Networks (Spring 08)
- Seminar: Congestion Control and Fairness (Spring 08)
- Seminar: Opportunistic Networks (Fall 07)
Students
If you are interested in doing your master's thesis in one of the research areas mentioned above (or in a somewhat related area), please get in touch with me.
Personal
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