Curriculum vitae
Full name: | Jouni Leo Tapio Sirén |
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Email: | jouni.siren@iki.fi |
Website: | https://iki.fi/jouni.siren/ |
Education and employment
2022 – present | Associate Research Scientist, University of California Santa Cruz |
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2018 – 2022 | Assistant Research Scientist, University of California Santa Cruz |
2015 – 2017 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Supervisors: Richard Durbin, Thomas Keane |
2013 – 2014 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chile Supervisor: Gonzalo Navarro Funding: Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland |
2007 – 2012 |
PhD in Computer Science, University of Helsinki Supervisor: Veli Mäkinen Thesis: Compressed Full-Text Indexes for Highly Repetitive Collections |
1999 – 2007 | MSc in Computer Science, University of Helsinki |
Funding and awards
2013 |
Doctoral Thesis Award, Finnish Information-Processing Research Foundation Award for the best PhD thesis in computer science accepted by a Finnish university in 2012 |
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2013 – 2014 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Two-year grant for postdoctoral research abroad |
Teaching
2022 | MSc thesis co-supervision, University of Milano-Bicocca |
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2012 | MSc thesis co-supervision, University of Helsinki |
2007 – 2008 | Completed Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (5 cr) |
2001 – 2011 | Teaching assistant on 30 lecture courses and 10 laboratory courses, University of Helsinki |
Academic service
2012 – present |
Conferences Program committee: RECOMB-Seq (2019 – 2024), SPIRE (2015, 2018 – 2021, 2023 – 2024) Organizing committee: CPM 2012 |
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2007 – 2009 | Human Resources Policy Follow-up Group, University of Helsinki |
2006 – 2007 | Data Privacy Group, University of Helsinki |
2003 – 2005 | Degree Structure Reform Group, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki |
2003 – 2005 | Degree Structure Reform Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki |
Other information
- Language skills: Finnish (native), English (fluent), Russian (once fluent, now mostly forgotten), Spanish (basics), Swedish (basics)
- Hobbies: travelling, hiking, computer games
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Ropecon: the largest Nordic role-playing
convention
- Organizing Committee 2002 – 2006, 2008 – 2012, 2016 – 2024 (co-chair 2006, 2011)
- Board 2002 – 2008 (chair 2004)