Tomi Männistö is professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and the head the Empirical Software Engineering Research Group. His researc interests include product requirements and software architectures, software products, software intensive services, product variability and conceptual modelling. Currently, the research is also working on the software engineering paradigm called continuous experimentation in which data from real usage of software is collected and analysed for decision-making in software development. Tomi Männistö is a member and ex-chair of IFIP Working Group 2.10 Software Architecture and representative for the University of Helsinki in ISERN (International Software Engineering Research Network).

Jukka K. Nurminen started as a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki in spring 2019. He has worked extensively on software research in industry at Nokia Research Center, in academia at Aalto University, and in applied research at VTT. His key research contributions are on energy-efficient software and mobile peer-to-peer and cloud solutions but his experience ranges widely from applied optimization to AI, from network planning tools to mobile apps, and from software project management to tens of patented inventions. He received his MSc degree in 1986 and PhD degree in 2003 from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University). Currently his main interests are on tools and techniques for developing data-intensive software systems including testing of AI solutions, computational moral as well as software development for quantum computers.

Petri Kettunen, Docent, University Researcher, received his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in 2009 from Helsinki University of Technology following an extensive industrial career mainly in telecom business. Since 2010 he has been at University of Helsinki, department of Computer Science. His current research interests include agile software enterprises, continuous innovation of software-intensive products and services, sustainability in software engineering, and future software development organizations.

Antti-Pekka Tuovinen is a University Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science. Antti-Pekka's main interests are in the areas of Software Architecture (architecture and design, programming languages) and Software Engineering (quality and testing). He teaches graduate-level courses on those subjects and supervises MSC thesis writing. In addition to academic proficiency, he has extensive experience of research and development work in the IT industry from several companies.

Niko Mäkitalo is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. His main interests are Web technologies in the context of multi-device and IoT programming. Recently his research focus has been on making cooperation with the IoT more human-centric and user friendly with an interaction-oriented programming model. He is passionate implementing what he has designed in practice. More from him: https://nkm.io

Simo is currently finishing his PhD in Discovery research group and continues as a postdoc in ESE group after the defense.

Simo's doctoral studies consider the intersection of computational creativity, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. From a single agent perspective he is interested in how autonomous and self-adaptive agents can exhibit creativity both in their outputs and in their internal processes. In multi-agent settings his main focus is on how a group of creative agents can work together in novel ways to accomplish tasks that are not easily fulfilled by any single agent alone.