Matti Rossi is a professor of information systems at Aalto University School of Business. He is a past president of the Association for Information Systems and AIS Fellow. He has been the principal investigator in several major research projects funded by the technological development center of Finland and Academy of Finland. He was the winner of the 2013 Millennium Distinction Award of Technology Academy of Finland for open source and data research.

His research papers have appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of AIS, Information and Management and Information Systems. He has been a senior editor of JAIS and Database, and an associate editor for MIS Quarterly, and he is the past editor in chief of Communications of the Association for Information Systems.