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Mentorship and Supervision

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Postdocs and Senior researchers

• [Lecturer] Mohan Liyanage (Pervasive sensing and IoT) 2023-2024.
• [Postdoc] Mehrdad Asadi (Edge Intelligence)- 2022-2023
• [Postdoc] Mohan Liyanage (Autonomous Pervasive Sensing) 2019-2022.
• [Postdoc] Mohamed Ragab (Explainable AI)- 2022-2023

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PhD theses

• [PhD] Akintola Adeyinka (Topic: Smart Plants and Autonomous Ground Drones) - in progress
  • Thesis title:
  • This thesis contain contributions (C) published in: (C1) IEEE Pervasive Computing (Smart Plants on Wheels)


• [PhD] Zhigang Yin (Topic: Autonomous Detection of Debris Pollutants in Aquatic Enviroments) - in progress
  • Thesis title:
  • This thesis contain contributions (C) published in: (C1) ACM IMWUT/UbiComp (HIPPO), (C2) ACM HotMobile (Hedgehog)


• [PhD] Abdul-Rasheed Ottun (Topic: Explainable AI for Distributed and Federated Machine Learning) - in progress
• Thesis title:
• This thesis contain contributions (C) published in: (C1) IEEE Internet Computing (SFL), (C2) IEEE ICDCS (The SPATIAL Architecture) + SPATIAL demo, and (C3) IEEE Computer (Trustworthy autonomous drones)


• [PhD] Mayowa Olapade (Topic: CityDrone: Massive Multi-Drone Systems for Enviromental Monitoring) - in progress
• Thesis title:
• This thesis contain contributions (C) published in: (C1) ACM UMAP (Pervasive chatbots), (C2) ACM IoT (Nanodrones)


• [PhD] Farooq Dar (Topic: Estimating Energy Footprint using Thermal Sensing) - in progress
  • Thesis title:
  • This thesis contain contributions (C) published in: (C1) ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (FoggyBottoms), (C2) Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PerCom 2021 extension - The Midas Touch) and (C3) ACM/IEEE IoTDI (LIZARD)


• [Completed][PhD] Agustin Zuniga (Topic: Pervasive Data Science) - Supervised by Petteri Nurmi, Pan Hui and Huber Flores; [Defended, November 2023], news here
  • Thesis tittle: Pervasive Data Science: From Data Collection to End-User Applications[Received outstanding thesis award by the University of Helsinki] - news here
  • This thesis contain contributions (C) published in: (C1) ACM TheWebConf (Tortoise), (C2) IEEE Pervasive Computing (RiPPG), (C3) IEEE PerCom (COSINE) and IEEE Pervasive Computing (See No Evil)

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Master and Bachelor Theses

• [M] Kaarel Hanson (Context Sensor Data on Demand for Mobile Users Supported by XMPP)
• [M] Oleg Petshjonkin (Migration of Native Android to HTML5)[github]
• [B] Tanel Tahepold (Context-aware Games in HTML5 with Microcontrollers)[github]
• [B] Martti Marran (Generating Indoor Maps from Mobility Traces)
• [B] Lauris Kruusamae (Energy-aware Sensor Data Gathering)[github]
• [B] Jakob Mass (Device to Device Automatic Pairing)[github][pdf]
• [M] Lukman Adekunle (Predicting Wireless Sensor Readings with Neural Network) [github]
• [B] Taavi Ilmjarv (Detecting User Reading Behaviour Using Smartphone Sensors)[github]
• [B] Kristiina Ritso (Scaling virtualized Smartphones Images in the Cloud)
• [B] Jaan Tohver (Gesture Ads for Smartphone Apps) [github][pdf]
• [B] Mihkel Visnapuu (D2D Computational Offloading) [github][pdf]
• [B] Enno Eller (Simplifying Mobile Social Media Authentication On Android)[github][pdf]
• [B] Henry Ots (Device-to-Device (D2D) Coupon Dissemination)[github][pdf]
• [M] Agustin Zuniga (Understanding the Impact of Performance on App Retention)[github][pdf]
• [M] Hilary Emenike (Exploiting Human-emitted Thermal Radiation)[github][pdf]
• [M] Ali Raza (Exploiting Group Mobility)[github][pdf]
• [M] Mubashar Shahzad, Master student (Revisiting Group Mobility)[github][pdf]
• [M] Mayowa Olapade (Autonomous Monitoring of Litter using Sunlight)[github][pdf]
• [M] Hashim Hashimov (Modelling Energy Connsumption using Thermal Imaging)[github][pdf]
• [M] Tarlan Hasanli (Pervasive Chatbots: Exploring User Perception Toward Human-assisted AI in Distributed Applications)[github][pdf]
• [M] Perseverance Munga Ngoy (PHOENIX: Revisiting Cloudlet Development with Recycled Phones)[github][pdf]
• [M] Toluwani Mathew Elemosho (Analysing Model Attacks in Machine Learning Pipeline)[github][pdf]
• [M] Marasinghe Mudiyanselage Rasinthe Marasinghe (Systematic Evaluation of Trustworthy AI Augmentation in Modern Applications)[github][pdf]

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Interns

• [Summer 2019] Maria Zubair, University of Helsinki, Finland