Jari Porras

Jari Porras
Professor
Software Engineering
LUT School of Engineering Sciences
Lappeenranta
Research areas
Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Science Applications
Industrial relations
Computer Science
Software

Biography

Jari Porras D.Sc (Tech) is a Professor of Software Engineering (especially Distributed Systems) at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT. Prof. Porras received the DSc. (Tech.) degree from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland in 1998 about modeling and simulation of communication networks in a distributed computing environment. He's a visiting professor at Aalto University, Finland, and at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has supervised and examined 500+ Master’s Thesis works and 27 Dissertations, as well as acted as an external evaluator for 28 doctoral thesis works since the start of his professorship in 2000. He has conducted research on parallel and distributed computing, wireless and mobile systems and services, as well as sustainable ICT. In the last years, he has focused his research on human and sustainability aspects of software engineering. He is actively working in international networks and organizations.

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