AI and Methods Services Trainee
Statistics Finland
May 2026 - present
Working near the place where public-sector data, methods, and practical AI meet. The role is current, so I will avoid polishing it into legend before it has earned the dust.
Experience
A practical timeline of research, engineering, systems work, and written words. The line is not perfectly straight, but it has learned to carry useful tools.
Work
Research Assistant
University of Turku / TurkuNLP
May 2024 - December 2025
Worked on Finnish and multilingual language model evaluation, benchmark development, dataset preparation, validation, reporting, and HPC research runs. Contributed to HPLT and FIN-bench-v2 work, supervised one bachelor's thesis under professor supervision, and presented research at ACL 2025.
ICT Specialist
Terveyspalvelut Sympatikus Oy
2015 - present, part-time
Website administration, helpdesk, IT security support, and digital communication workspace design for a small organization. A long-running exercise in doing practical ICT where the users are real and the problems have names.
Copywriter
Poutapilvi Web Design
2012 - 2014
Wrote newsletters, announcements, brochures, web texts, edited customer material, and practiced the old art of making a page say what it claims to say.
Education
M.Sc., Cybersecurity and NLP
University of Turku, 2023 - present
Cybersecurity studies with strong NLP and language technology work: system and application security, network security, firewall and IPS technology, ethical hacking, corpus processing, automatic text processing, and deep learning for human language technology.
B.Eng., Information and Communication Technology
Turku University of Applied Sciences, completed
Telecommunications, networking, electronics, routing and switching, fiber-optic networks, product development, and the useful habit of remembering that software eventually touches physical reality.
Media and Copywriting Studies
Turku University of Applied Sciences, earlier studies
Professional copywriting, web writing, proofreading, plain language, campaign planning, visual storytelling, and communication for people who did not ask for a stack trace.
Publications
Two recent research traces worth keeping above the fold:
- HPLT paper: co-authored ACL 2025 paper on HPLT v2 multilingual corpora and language technology data pipelines.
- FIN-bench-v2 paper: co-authored Finnish LLM evaluation benchmark suite.
Award
Capstone Innovation Project: Wireless IoT With LoRa
Best technical content, Turku University of Applied Sciences, 2018.
Documents and proof of life
The PDF CV is there for formal occasions. The projects are there for the more useful question: what does the work look like when it stops being a bullet point?