Jyrki Katajainen: Curriculum vitae

1. Education

Turun Normaalikoulu, Finland
Matriculation examination, May 1976

Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Finland
B.Sc., Dec 1979
M.Sc., Oct 1980

Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Finland
Licentiate in Philosophy, Jun 1983
Ph.D., Dec 1987

2. Knowledge of languages

Finnish: mother tongue
Swedish and English: fluent
Other Scandinavian languages like Danish: excellent ability to understand
German: little

3. Current appointments

Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Emeritus, since Jan 2020

Jyrki Katajainen and Company, Denmark
Jack-of-all-trades, since Aug 2006

4. Previous professional appointments

Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Deputy Associate Professor (total 1 year 2 months) 1991–1993
Associate Professor (total 25 years 1 month) 1993–2019

Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Finland
Deputy Mathematician (3 months) 1979–1980
Deputy Assistant (total 1 year 7 months) 1980–1981
Assistant (total 2 years 11 months) 1982–1986
Deputy Lecturer (total 1 year 3 months) 1980–1983
Deputy Associate Professor (6 months) 1984
Senior Lecturer (total 1 year 1 month) 1988–1991
Professor (4 months) 1999
Docent (11 years) 1993–2004

Academy of Finland
Junior Researcher (3 years) 1987–1989
Researcher in the project Parallel models of computation and parallel algorithms (6 months) 1992

Ministry of Education, Finland
Ph.D. student (4 months) 1985

Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland
Docent (12 years) 1992–2004

Ministry of Education, Denmark
Member of the national corps of external examiners in computing (5 years 9 months) 2002–2007

5. Compulsory military service

Satakunta Artillery Regiment, Finland
Conscript soldier (8 months) 1978–1979
Military rank: Artilleryman

6. Administrative experience

Supremum (mathematics students' association), University of Turku, Finland
Vice-chairperson (9 months) 1978

Turku Miniature Golf Club, Finland
Chairperson (5 years 10 months) 1978–1983

Conscript Soldiers' Committee, Satakunta Artillery Regiment, Finland
Chairperson (5 months) 1978–1979

Finnish Federation of Miniature Golf Clubs, Finland
Vice-chairperson (1 year) 1981–1982

Committee for Curriculum Planning in Computer Science, University of Turku, Finland
Secretary (total 3 years) 1985–1991

Foundation Silverräven (Rudolf Steiner kindergarten), Linköping, Sweden
Secretary (9 months) 1989

Performance Engineering Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lab leader (20 years) 1999–2019 [more]

7 . Other professional activities

a) Preliminary examination of Ph.D. theses

Hannu Toivonen: Discovery of Frequent Patterns in Large Data Collections, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 1996

Lauri Malmi: On Updating and Balancing Relaxed Balanced Search Trees in Main Memory, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Helsinki University of Technology, 1997

Kurt Swanson: Studies in Applied Data Structures, Department of Computer Science, Lund University, 1998

N. Jesper Larsson, Structures of String Matching and Data Compression, Lund University, 1999

Gianni Franceschini, On the Computational Power of Permutations in Sorting and Searching Problems, University of Pisa, 2005

Nikolas Askitis, Efficient Data Structures for Cache Architectures, RMIT University, 2007

b) Organizing committee membership

Secretary, 2nd Finnish Summer School on Theoretical Computer Science, Parainen, August 1985

Chair, 1st Copenhagen Meeting on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Copenhagen, August 1993

Chair, 2nd Copenhagen Conference on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Copenhagen, May 1995

Co-chair, Algorithm Day in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, September 1997

Chair, Summer School on Experimental Algorithmics, Rungsted Kyst, July 2004 [more]

Conference chair, 9th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Humlebæk, July 2004 [more]

Conference chair, 13th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms, Copenhagen, June/July 2014 [more]

Original chair, 22nd International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, Copenhagen, August 2019 [more]

c) Program committee membership

Co-Chair, 2nd Copenhagen Conference on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Copenhagen, May 1995

20th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Sydney, February 1997

21st Australasian Computer Science Conference, Perth, February 1998

22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, Auckland, January 1999

23rd Australasian Computer Science Conference, Canberra, January/February 2000

24th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Gold Coast, January/February 2001

25th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Melbourne, January/February 2002

8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Turku, July 2002

26th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Adelaide, February 2003

27th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Dunedin, January 2004

9th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Humlebæk, July 2004 [more]

28th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Newcastle, January/February 2005

Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, Puebla, September 2005

29th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Hobart, January 2006

2009 Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, New York City, January 2009 [more]

17th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, Copenhagen, September 2009 [more]

21st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, Sophia Antipolis, September 2013 [more]

13th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms, Copenhagen, June/July 2014 [more]

22nd International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, Copenhagen, August 2019 [more]

SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, Alexandria, Virginia, January 2021 [more]

8. Sport achievements

1975 Gold medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Junior)

1979 Gold medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Team)

1979 Silver medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Men)

1980 Silver medal, Finnish In-Door Miniature Golf Championships (Men)

1982 Gold medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Team)

1982 Bronze medal, European Miniature Golf Championships (Team)

1984 Silver medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Men)