Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

1998 Master of Science. My pro-gradu thesis Mathematical Logic was rewarded as the best pro-gradu thesis of the year.

1996 Bachelor of Science. The topic of the thesis was The Sylow Theorems.

My university studies included courses from mathematical analysis, physics, algebra, stochastics, statistics, simulation, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, algorithm theory, coding theory, cryptoanalysis and parallel computing.

Highschool, Kärsämäki, Finland

1988 Graduated with the highest grade in mathematics.

Other courses

2001 11th Jyväskylä Summerschool. University of Jyväskylä.

2000 Finnish speech recognition applications. University of Tampere.

2000 10th Jyväskylä Summerschool. University of Jyväskylä.

1999 9th Jyväskylä Summerschool. University of Jyväskylä.

Publications

Optimization of Deliveries from Distribution Points

2006 T. Ronkainen, M. M. Ali, Proceedings of the Mathematics in Industry Study Group 2006, to appear.

Computation of the multivariate Oja median

2003 Tommi Ronkainen, Hannu Oja, Pekka Orponen, Developments in Robust Statistics: Proceedings of the International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS 2001), pages 344-359, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. Springer-Verlag.

Professional Experience

Arrojo Software Solutions, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007- Software design and programming.

Akustiko ky, Tampere, Finland

2000- Part-time Linux-server remote support and administrator.

University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

2004-2005 Designing and implementing interactive multiobjective optimization program interface.

CoMaS Graduate School, Jyväskylä, Finland

1998-2002 Developing algorithms for the computation of the Oja-median. Results of the research are published in Proceedings of ICORS 2001, Computation of the Multivariate Oja Median.

Tielaitos, Kärsämäki, Finland

1989-1993 Summertime jobs mainly as an assitant surveyer of the road construction projects, but also including some computer programming and support.

Air Defence Regiment of Lappland, Rovaniemi, Finland

1988-1989 Finnish military service.

Freelance career

1985- Various projects for fun and profit. See more info here.

Computer Skills

General

2000- Linux-server maintenance, including firewalls, encryption protocols, general security policies, CVS system, MySQL/Postgre database, BIND nameserver, Sendmail/exim/fetchmail mailtransfer, Apache WWW-server, NFS- and Samba-fileservers, lpd and CUPS printing-servers and Squid proxy-server.

1999- Experienced in writing HTML, XHTML, CSS, CGI-scripts, XML, DTD and XSLT or even raw Postscript.

1997- Full time Linux-user (Slackware, Debian, Fedora, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Gentoo). I am familiar with the most of the GNU tools in general, especially in programming like emacs, gcc, gdb, make, CVS, autoconf, SWIG.

1995- Document writing using TeX, LaTeX, AmsTeX or DocBook XML. For the source code reference I have also used Doxygen and JavaDoc.

Programming

2008- Haskell

2007- PostgreSQL.

2002- Java, JavaScript, Python.

2000- PHP, MySQL.

1997- Perl, Tcl, shell-scripts (mostly Bash, also Tcsh).

1989- C/C++.

1997-2002 Mathematica, Matlab, S-Plus, R.

1997-1998 Lisp, Prolog.

1986-1989 Assembler 6502, Z80, MC68000.

1985-1989 Pascal, Forth and numerous Basic-versions.

Referees

Prof. Kaisa Miettinen

University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Homepage: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html.

Petteri Nurmesjärvi

Akustiko ky, Finland. Phone: +358 50 3302007.