Antti Oulasvirta

Antti Oulasvirta is a Professor at Aalto University, where he leads the Computational Behavior Lab and the User Interfaces research group. His work spans human-computer interaction, user interfaces, human factors and performance, interactive AI, and computational models that explain and predict behavior in interactive tasks. Aalto sources report that he received his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007–2008, and a Senior Researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) in 2008–2011. He received an ERC Starting Grant (2015–2020) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2024–2029), and in 2025 became the first Finnish scholar inducted into the CHI Academy.

• Current | Aalto University | Professor
  • Leads the Computational Behavior Lab and the User Interfaces research group, focusing on computational behavior models and their applications in HCI and human-AI interaction.
• 2008–2011·Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)·Senior Researcher
• 2007–2008·University of California, Berkeley School of Information·Fulbright Scholar
  • Conducted research at the School of Information.
• Earlier | Max Planck Institute for Informatics; Saarland University Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction | Senior Researcher
  • His materials confirm these affiliations but do not provide one consistent set of start and end years.

• 2006·University of Helsinki·PhD in Cognitive Science
• 2002–2003·University of California, Berkeley·Exchange Student
  • Conducted research in the Neuropsychology Lab.
• 2006·T-Labs, Berlin·Internship

• 2026 | CHI Best Paper Award and two CHI Best Paper Honorable Mentions
• 2025 | Inducted into the CHI Academy as the first Finnish scholar
• 2019 | Elected member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters; ELLIS member/fellow
• 2015–2020 | ERC Starting Grant for computational user-interface design
• 2024–2029 | ERC Advanced Grant (Artificial User) for computational models of human behavior

Antti Oulasvirta contributes to the Human-Computer Interaction major in Aalto's CCIS Master's programme. His homepage lists Computational Design and Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, and Computational Cognitive Modelling (starting in 2027); enquiries about master's thesis topics and internships should include a CV, transcript, and letter of interest by email. His books include Computational Interaction (2018, Oxford University Press), Bayesian Methods for Interaction and Design (2022, Cambridge University Press), and the co-authored Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (2025, Oxford University Press).

This profile was checked against the personal homepage, Aalto profile, Computational Behavior Lab, Aalto Research Portal, and Aalto's CHI Academy news on 2026-09-23. Detailed source notes, access limitations, and the excluded institutional LinkedIn post are in _review/253_Antti Oulasvirta/reference.md.