Meet the Team
Qi Chen
Principal Investigator
Qi Chen is a Principal Investigator at the ELLIS Institute Finland and a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, and a member of ELLIS. Before this, Qi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Data Science Institute and the Robot Vision & Learning Lab at the University of Toronto, supported by the DSI Postdoc Fellowship…
Postdocs
Weiguo Pian
Postdoctoral Researcher
ELLIS Institute Finland · Aalto CS
Ph.D.The University of Texas at DallasPh.D.University of Luxembourg
Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan
ELLIS Postdoc, with Dominik Baumann
ELLIS Institute Finland · Aalto ELEC
Ph.D.KTH Royal Institute of Technology
PhD Students
Wenwen Hou
PhD Student
Joined Mar 2026
ELLIS Institute Finland · Aalto CS
M.Phil. HKUST (Guangzhou) · M.Sc. CUHK
Doudou Zhang
PhD Student
Joined Jun 2026
ELLIS Institute Finland · Aalto CS
M.Phil.HKUST (Guangzhou)
Yilin Chen
ELLIS PhD Student, with Samuel Kaski and Simon Olsson
Joined Sep 2026
ELLIS Institute Finland · Aalto CS
M.Sc.ShanghaiTech University
Zheyue Tan
PhD Student, with Eric MalmiDoctoral studies since Jan 2025
Joined Sep 2026
Aalto CS
M.Eng.Zhejiang University
Interns, Research Assistants & Visitors
Alireza Daeijavad
Summer Intern
Ph.D. candidate, McMaster University
Yifu Luo
Collaborating PhD Student
Ph.D. student, Technical University of Munich
Yangrui Zhang
Research Assistant
Master’s student, Aalto University
Master Thesis Students
Joona Sorjonen
Aalto CS · Thesis with Sarake Oy
Arvi Jussila
Aalto IME · Thesis with GE Healthcare
Funded by Technology Industries of Finland
Jooel Mäntymaa
Aalto CS · Thesis with Polycon Oy
