Seppo Virtanen
Vice Head (Education), Department of Computing
Kyberturvallisuusteknologia seppo.virtanen@utu.fi +358 29 450 2776 +358 50 352 8086 : 456B : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9487-3018 |
Cyber Security; Cybersecurity; AI in Cybersecurity; LLMs in Cybersecurity; Smart Environments; Smart City; Network Security; e-voting; Online Voting; Network Technology; Protocols; Firewalls; Next Generation Firewalls; Intrusion Detection; Intrusion Prevention; Wireless Local Area Networks; WLAN; WLAN Security; Malware; Ransomware; Internet-of-Things Security; IoT Security; Autonomous System Security; Trust; Digital Transformation; System Security; Privacy; Security Engineering; Digital Intelligence
Dr. Seppo Virtanen is Professor and Chair of Cyber Security Engineering, and Vice Head of Department of Computing at the University of Turku, Finland. He received his MSc in applied physics (electronics and information technology) in 1998 and his PhD [DSc(Tech)] in Communication Systems in 2004 from the University of Turku. In 2009, he was awarded the title of adjunct professor (dosentti) in Embedded Communication Systems. He completed his certificate in university pedagogy in 2010 and became a holder of the government decree regulated teacher's competence and qualification. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has supervised or examined 12 PhD theses and more than 160 Master’s theses. He has taught more than 80 instances of more than 25 different university courses to engineering students as principal instructor. His current research interests are on the application of AI on cyber security, technologies for network security solutions and security technologies for IoT.
Our research in cyber security engineering covers all abstraction levels and key application domains of networked systems from IoT to global internetworking, targeting future technologies needed in building a secure digital society. Please visit our research group's website at https://www.utu.fi/cyber for more details.
Our research team is continuously interested in talented new doctoral researchers that wish to carry out their PhD thesis research with us. If your PhD research interests align with our on-going research activities, please contact us by completing and submitting our PhD thesis research contact form (rather than sending email).
Our lab has the main educational responsibility in two Master’s degree programme major subjects in Cyber Security. Our annual output is about 30-40 M.Sc.(Tech.) degrees (120 ECTS) and we are the only university in Finland approved to the EIT Digital Master School Cyber Security double degree programme with other leading European universities in the field. Along with our partners, we also became a partner in the EU project called SPECTRO to deliver advanced digital skills in cyber security and robotics in the form of specialized Master’s programmes and self-standing modules. Please visit our research group's website at https://www.utu.fi/cyber for more details.
- Increasing the Self-Study Effort of Higher Education Engineering Students with an Online Learning Platform (2009)
- International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
- A software defined approach for common baseband processing (2008)
- Journal of Systems Architecture
- Improving the Learning Process of Engineering Students by Deployment of Activating ICTs (2008)
- Communications in Computer and Information Science
- Protocol Processor Design Issues (2007) Processor Design. System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs Truscan D, Virtanen S, Lilius J
- System Level Simulations (2007) Processor Design. System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs Virtanen S, Truscan D, Määttä S, Westerlund T, Isoaho J, Nurmi J
- Convergence of hardware and software in platforms for radio technologies (2006)
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- A Brunch from the Coffee Table-Case Study in NoC Platform Design (2005) Interconnect-Centric Design for Advanced SoC and NoC Ahonen T, Virtanen S, Kylliäinen J, Truscan D, Kasanko T, Sigüenza-Tortosa D, Ristimäki T, Paakkulainen J, Nurmi T, Saastamoinen I, Isännäinen H, Lilius J, Nurmi J, Isoaho J
- A System-Level Framework for Designing and Evaluating Protocol Processor Architectures (2005)
- International Journal of Embedded Systems
- Capturing processor architectures from protocol processing applications: a case study (2005) Virtanen S, Paakkulainen J, Nurmi T
- Tuning a protocol processor architecture towards DSP operations (2005)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Fast evaluation of protocol processor architectures for IPv6 routing (2003) Lilius J, Truscan D, Virtanen S
- SystemC simulation framework of protocol processing architectures for IPv6 routing (2003) Truscan D, Virtanen S, Lilius J
