NASA Reveals New Details About Dark Matter’s Influence on the Universe
With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and even planets like Earth.
Department of Computer Science
We are an internationally-oriented community and home to world-class research in modern computer science.
New CS Assistant Professor Francesco Croce
Francesco Croce will be working on robustness in multi-modal foundation models at ELLIS Institute Finland and Aalto University.
New CS Assistant Professor Qi Chen
Artificial intelligence (AI) developers must focus on safer and fairer AI methods, as the trust and equality of societies are at stake, says new ELLIS Institute Finland principal investigator Qi Chen
New CS Assistant Professor Azade Farshad
Azade Farshad advances AI for medical applications.
New CS Assistant Professor Sebastian Szyller
Sebastian Szyller studies how to train privacy-preserving machine learning models, how to safeguard them and ensure robust predictions in untrusted environments.
New CS Assistant Professor Deepika Yadav
Deepika Yadav leverages technology to improve women's health.
News
Retail therapy fail? Online shopping linked to stress, says study
Shopping, social media use and gaming are the most likely online activities to correlate with stress, according to a new study
A new way to measure contagion: the gut bacterium behind blood poisoning can spread like influenza
Neither the antibiotic-resistant nor the highly virulent strains are the most transmissible.
Events
Public defence in Computer Science, M.Sc. Arsi Ikäheimonen
Developing digital phenotyping methods that use smartphone data to support mental health research and depression monitoring.
Meet the Dean of the School of Science
Come and meet the Dean Jouko Lampinen online.
Public defence in Computer Science, M.Sc. Charles Koutcheme
Towards Automated Programming Feedback with Open-Weight Language Models (title changed on 19.1.2026) (title of the thesis).
Meet the Dean of the School of Science
Come and meet the Dean Jouko Lampinen online.Study computer science
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Study in Finland at Aalto University, where science and art meet technology and business. Join a top-ranked, multidisciplinary community!
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Computer Science education on Bachelor, Master and Doctoral levels.
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Summer employee positions at the Department of Computer Science 2026
We are looking for BSc or MSc degree students at Aalto or other universities to work with us during the summer 2026
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Humans of Computer Science
Computer Science at Aalto University is more than just coding. Here are stories from our computer scientists.
Juho Leinonen: Problems with self-regulation can cause students to rely too heavily on AI
New assistant professor Juho Leinonen at Aalto University Computer Science Department explains the difference between experts and novices in the use of AI and how it can be determined whether AI was used in the creation of code.
A front-row view on today’s major challenges: Corinna Coupette bridges law and technology
Coupette was appointed assistant professor of computer science this autumn
Jukka Suomela studies the limitations and efficiency of computation
Associate Professor Jukka Suomela is a theoretical computer scientist, who works with very hard mathematical problems to uncover the limits and possibilities that computers hold
Ask a scientist: How will AI affect creativity?
The impact of creative AI is unfolding before our eyes, yet we struggle to understand it. It’s the perfect time to ask researchers what they see and think.
Leila Arstila: As a recent graduate, I have a whole world ahead of me
'We could learn to listen to ourselves and be kinder to ourselves. After burning out, it's really hard to climb back up. It would be easier to stop before the fall.'
Podcast: Kahvit näppikselle
Finnish language podcast about how computer science is involved in basically everything.
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