Sasu Tarkoma is a Professor of Computer Science at University of Helsinki, and Deputy Head of the Department of Computer Science. He is also affiliated with the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and a member of the board of Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT). Professor Tarkoma has supervised 6 PhD students. He has authored 4 textbooks and has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters. His h-index is 24. He has 5 granted US Patents and over 25 patent applications. His research interests are Internet technology, distributed systems, data analytics, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. He is a member of the Finnish Union of University Professors, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and member of the COST Information and Communication Technologies Domain Committee for the period 2010-2014. He has managed and participated in national and international research projects at the University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). He is the Academic Coordinator of the Internet of Things Digile SHOK program (2012-2015). He is a member of the editorial board of the Computer Networks Journal and member of organizing and scientific committees of many international conferences.