Inside Finland’s University-Driven AI Innovation | Interview with Joonas Uusnäkki | Computing2025

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Join us at the Computing Conference 2025 in London for an exclusive interview with Joonas Uusnäkki, a generative AI developer at Aalto University, Finland. In this insightful conversation, Joonas shares his academic journey from the University of Jyväskylä to leading the development of the Aalto AI Assistant—a secure, on-premise GenAI service supporting over 16,000 students and staff.

We explore how this centralized AI platform empowers researchers, educators, and students to safely leverage large language models (LLMs) for academic tasks, and how the team is pioneering AI compliance, prompt engineering, and multi-agent orchestration in higher education. Joonas also reflects on unexpected findings from their study of LLMs—including the surprising performance of Code Llama—and the real-world impact of deploying institution-owned AI solutions.

Whether you're passionate about AI in education, generative AI development, software engineering, or privacy-preserving technology, this conversation offers valuable insights into cutting-edge university-led AI applications.

🔑 Topics Covered:

✔️Generative AI for academic institutions
✔️Large language models (LLMs) and prompt engineering
✔️AI assistant for education (Aalto AI Assistant)
✔️Secure, on-premise AI deployments
✔️Empirical software engineering
✔️Code Llama performance analysis
✔️Innovation in Finnish universities
✔️Real-world AI applications in academia

👤 About the Guest:
Joonas Uusnäkki is a software developer specializing in generative AI at Aalto University. He holds a master’s degree in information systems and has experience as a research assistant, course assistant, and software engineering researcher. He now leads the technical development of the university’s AI assistant platform.
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📍 Recorded at Computing Conference 2025 | London, UK