Leo Leppänen
  • PL 68 (Pietari Kalmin katu 5)

    00014

    Finland

20162025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Curriculum vitae

Leo Leppänen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science. He has a PhD in Computer Science and a BA in Language Technology.

His research focus is on automated generation of natural language, especially on the generation of factual content such as news and other reports from structured data, as well as educational data mining, learning analytics and computer science education research.

He is currently working at the University of Helsinki MOOC Center. Previously, he has been at the Discovery Research Group and the Agile Education Research Group, both at the department of computer science.

Education/Academic qualification

Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Award Date: 30 May 2023

Computer Science, Master of Science

Award Date: 31 Oct 2017

Language Technology, Bachelor of Arts

Award Date: 16 Jun 2015

Fields of Science

  • 113 Computer and information sciences
  • Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Event)

    Leppänen, L. (Programme Committee Member)

    2024

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work typesPeer review of manuscripts

  • International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (Event)

    Leppänen, L. (Programme Committee Member)

    2024

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work typesPeer review of manuscripts

  • International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities

    Hämäläinen, M. (Scientific Committee Member), Öhman, E. (Scientific Committee Member), Miyagawa, S. (Attendee), Alnajjar, K. (Attendee), Bizzoni, Y. (Scientific Committee Member), Wilbur, J. (Scientific Committee Member), Degaetano-Ortlieb, S. (Attendee), Gessler, L. (Scientific Committee Member), Leppänen, L. (Attendee), Duong, Q. Q. (Attendee), Atanassova, I. (Scientific Committee Member), Tuominen, J. (Attendee), Martinc, M. (Attendee), Janicki, M. M. (Attendee), Zhang, S. (Attendee), Pivovarova, L. (Attendee), Dmitrieva, A. (Attendee), Kanner, A. (Attendee), Hjortnæs , N. (Attendee), Cho, W. I. (Scientific Committee Member), Shoemaker, T. (Scientific Committee Member), Manjavacas, E. (Scientific Committee Member), Iwatsuki, K. (Scientific Committee Member), Rubinstein, A. (Scientific Committee Member), Arnold, F. (Scientific Committee Member), Clerice, T. (Scientific Committee Member), Gutehrlé, N. (Attendee), Alqazlan, L. (Scientific Committee Member), Balázs, I. (Scientific Committee Member), Magistry, P. (Scientific Committee Member), Kawasaki, Y. (Scientific Committee Member), Antoniak, M. (Scientific Committee Member), Korre, K. (Scientific Committee Member), Teodorescu, D. (Scientific Committee Member), Dongqi, P. (Scientific Committee Member), Ligeti-Nagy, N. (Scientific Committee Member), Lahnala, A. (Scientific Committee Member), Simmons, G. (Scientific Committee Member), Hulden, V. (Scientific Committee Member), Park, J. (Scientific Committee Member), Sälevä, J. (Scientific Committee Member), Ruskov, M. (Scientific Committee Member), Song, Y. (Scientific Committee Member), Moreira, P. (Scientific Committee Member), Kurzynski, M. (Scientific Committee Member), Liimatta, A. (Attendee), Das, S. (Scientific Committee Member), Eck, S. O. (Scientific Committee Member), Nakajima, E. (Scientific Committee Member), Takagi, N. M. (Scientific Committee Member), Kawamura, K. (Scientific Committee Member), Dang, B. (Scientific Committee Member) & Rueter, J. (Scientific Committee Member)

    16 Nov 2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesOrganisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

  • Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

    Leppänen, L. (Speaker: Presenter)

    Nov 2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesOrganisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

  • Journalism Practice (Journal)

    Leppänen, L. (Reviewer)

    2024

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work typesPeer review of manuscripts