Laura Ruotsalainen

Laura Ruotsalainen is an Associate Professor of Spatiotemporal Data Analysis for Sustainability Science at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki.

Her current research interests include the development of computer vision, estimation and machine learning algorithms for creating and using accurate and reliable spatiotemporal data, namely navigation data, especially for the development of autonomous systems enabling sustainable smart cities. For years, she has been teaching courses and supervising research on navigation at the Aalto University and the University of Helsinki and more recently also a course on Computer Vision at the University of Helsinki.