Curriculum Vitae

Lauri Malmi

Born 13.11.1959, Helsinki

Married with Kerttu Pollari-Malmi, 1990

Children: Katri (1994), Hanna-Mari (1995), Mikko (1998)

Formal education

High school examination in Vartiokylän yhteiskoulu, 1977

Master of Science in Technology, in Department of Technical Physics in Helsinki University of Technology, passed with honor, 1985

Licentiate of Science in Technology, in Department of Computer Science in Helsinki University of Technology, 1989

Doctor of Science in Technology, in Department of Computer Science in Helsinki University of Technology, 1997

Employments

Finnish Post

Deputy postman, several short periods during summers 1976, 1977 and 1978,  in total 14 weeks

Finnish Railways

Engineering apprentice 01.06.1980 - 31.08.1980

Helsinki University of Technology, Computing Centre

Several periods as either a part-time or full time programmer, assistant designer or designer between 01.12.1980 and 31.08.1983.

Senior designer (part time) 01.09.1983 - 31.12.1983

Senior designer 01.01.1984 - 31.05.1985

Application designer 01.06.1985 - 30.06.1986

After this several short periods as a part-time application designer between 01.07.1986 and 30.09.1989

Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Information Processing Science

Lecturer (= assistant professor) 01.07.1986 - 31.12.1987

Full-time Teacher 01.01.1988 - 30.04.1988

Lecturer 01.08.1988 - 31.12.1991, (permanent since 1.4.1990)

Associate Professor (acting) 01.01.1992 - 30.06.1992

Lecturer 01.07.1992 - 31.07.1992

Researcher 01.08.1992 - 31.05.1995

Lecturer 01.06.1995 - 31.07.1998

Researcher 01.08.1998 - 31.7.1999

Professor (acting) 1.8.1999 - 31.10.2001

Professor of Computer Science. 1.11.2001 - 31.10.2006

Researcher 1.1.2002 - 31.12.2002

Activities related to research

I have been working on two major research areas:

1. Research on data structures and algorithms
2. Research on educational technology and education methods of programming, data structures and algorithms.

Research projects

• 1.7.1992 - 31.12.1993
 
A member of a research project "Concurrency in Data Structures" supervised by professors Heikki Saikkonen and Eljas Soisalon-Soininen. The project funding was granted by the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation. The research concentrated on theoretical analysis of relaxed balanced trees.

• 1.1.1994 - 31.05.1995
 
A member of a research project "Index Structures in Database systems" supervised by professor Eljas Soisalon-Soininen.  The project funding was granted by the Ministry of Education and Jenny and Antti Wihuri's Foundation. The research concentrated on developing new relaxed data structures for implementing main memory indexes and evaluating their performance experimentally.

After this the research on these topics continued years 1996-1997 without external funding.

• 1.9.1997 - 31.12.1999
 
The supervisor of a research project "Learning Environment for Algorithms and Data Structures" funded by TIERA (Enterprise education in data and radio communications) and laboratory of information processing science at HUT. The project implemented a WWW-based learning environment for data structures and algorithms and includes 1 full time and 1 part time researcher.
• 1.8.2001 - 31.7.2003
 
The supervisor of a research project KevytOLO (Tutorless Problem Based Learning) in which a new form of Problem Based Learning has been developed and tested on an introductory programming course.  The project was funded with a grant from Helsinki University of Technology and from the special funding for the Center of Excellence in Education granted by Ministry of Education. The project had one full time educational post-graduate level researcher.
• 1.1.2000 -
 
A member / partial supervisor of the Matrix project group (supervised by Ari Korhonen).  Matrix is a framework for building algorithm animations and simulating algorithms.  It's main applications relate to building a web-based learning environment for data structures and algorithms. The project has been funded with a grant given by Helsinki University of Technology and from the special funding for the Center of Excellence in Education granted by Ministry of Education. Currently the project has four fulltime faculty members and three part time graduate or undergraduate level researchers.
• 1.12.2000 -
 
The supervisor of a research project ETMEDSA (Evaluation of Teaching MEthods of Data Structures and Algorithms).  This is a joint project with professor Patrik Scheinin from the faculty of Educational Sciences in University of Helsinki.  The project concentrates on evaluating the effects of automatic assessment and feedback on learning.  It has been funded from the special funding for the Center of Excellence in Education granted by Ministry of Education. The project includes one part time graduate-level researcher in educational sciences.

Other projects

• 1997 - 2000
 
Member and supervisor (since 1998) of the OSR project, in which a database for registrating the course results within the laboratory of information processing science was built.  In 1999-2000 a web front-end and a statistics module was added to the system.  The project was funded by the laboratory of information processing science and included 1-2 full time programmers.
• 2000 -
 
Supervisor of the OTUS project where a general purpose course management system is built.  The project is a joint project with Helsinki University of Technology and Innofactor Ltd. The final product, called KUHA was adopted into production use in HUT in 1.2.2003.

International co-operation

The research on data structures has been carried out with the following people: Professor Thomas Ottmann, University of Freiburg, professor Peter Widmayer, ETHZ, and assistant professor Kim Larsen, University of Odense. In Finland, co-research has been made with assistant professor Otto Nurmi and assistant professor Kerttu Pollari-Malmi from University of Helsinki.

In 1994, the laboratory of information processing science adopted the Ceilidh system for checking and evaluating programming assignments in the laboratory of information processing science. The system was originally implemented by the LTR (Learning Technology Research) group in the University of Nottingham in England. We made a number of changes in the system and started co-operation with LTR (Eric Foxley and Edmund Burke) when developing new features in Ceilidh. In 1997, Tampere University of Technology in Finland, also adopted Ceilidh based on our experiences.

In 2002 and 2003 I participated with Ari Korhonen to an international working group during the ITICSE'2002 and ITICSE'2003 conference.  The group designed a framework for carrying out experimental research projects in evaluating, how algorithm visualization systems promote learning (2002) and how to improve the educational impact of algorithm visualization systems (2003).
 
 

Memberships in scientific committees

Member of the council of Finnish Society of Computer Science, 1990-1992

Program committee of Second Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference of Computer Science Education, 2002

Organization committee of IPN Seminar on Staff and Faculty Development in Scandinavia, Aalborg, Denmark, 2002.

Program committee of Third Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference of Computer Science Education, 2003

Chairman of the program committee of Fourth Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference of Computer Science Education, 2004.

Referee in scientific conferences and journals

Nordic Journal of Computing

Second Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference of Computer Science Education, 2002

IPN Seminar on Staff and Faculty Development in Scandinavia, Aalborg, Denmark, 2002.

Third Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference of Computer Science Education, 2003

Fourth Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference of Computer Science Education, 2004.

ITICSE'2004

ICALT'2004

Invited presentations

Ohjelmien ja algoritmisten tehtävien automaattinen tarkastaminen (Automatical checking of programs and algorithmical exercises), Conference of the Finnish Society of Computer Science, Helsinki, 1998, with Ari Korhonen.

Fiktiota ja faktaa TKK:n opetuksesta (Facts and fiction in Education in HUT), Invited member of panel discussion in TKK:n opetuksen kehittämispäivä, 23.4.99.

Kokemuksia PBL-menetelmän käytöstä ohjelmoinnin opetuksessa (experiences about applying problem-based learning in teaching basic programming). University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, 14.1.2000.

Problem Based Learning - Ongelmalähtöinen oppiminen tekniikan alan opetuksessa. Fiktiota ja faktaa TKK:n opetuksesta (Facts and fiction in Education in HUT), 11.5.2000 (together with Seppo Törmä from HUT and Jan Helbo from Aalborg University, Denmark).

Tieto- ja viestintätekniikasta apua suurten ryhmien opetukseen. (Information and communication technology as an aid for teaching masses of students). Virtuaalisuuden kiihdytyskaistalla, University of Oulu, 13.9.2000.

Yliopistot muutoksessa: opetuksen arki. (Changes in Universities: What is Everyday Life in Teaching), Peda-Forumin kevätpäivät, Teknillinen Korkeakoulu, 3.4.2001.

Ongelmalähtöinen oppiminen (OLO) ja sen sovellukset (Problem Based Learning and its applications), Peda-Forumin kevätpäivien työpaja, 4.4.2001.

Kokemuksia ongelmalähtöisestä oppimisesta (Experiences about Problem Based Learning), Vaasan yliopisto, Tietotekniikan laitos, 3.12.2001.

Massaopetus persoonallisemmaksi ja tutkimuksellisemmaksi - kokemuksia ja näkökulmia (How to teach masses in a more personal way - experiences and points of views).  OPLAA-seminaari, Jyväskylän yliopisto, 31.5.2002.

Teknologiset valinnat - Avoimet ja suljetut ratkaisut (Technological choises - open and closed solutions), TieVie- koulutus, Dipoli, Finland, 20.8.2002

Automatic feedback and assessment as a tool for improving learning, 2nd CeTUSS workshop, Teaching and Examining Engineers, Uppsala University, Sweden, 28.4.2005.

Research and Development in Computing Education, Reflektori 2005, Dipoli, Finland, 20.10.2005

Research and Development in Computing Education, Seminar of Development of Computer Science Education, Linköping University, Sweden, 10.3.2006.

Other scientific activities

Presentations given in international conferences / workshops

Posters in international conferences / workshops

Participation in international conferences / workshops