Past:      

• I was guest editor of the special issue of Mathematical and Computational Applications in 2023 (on the occasion of Kalyanmoy Deb's 60th birthday with Carlos Coello Coello, Eric Goodman, Dish Saxena, Oliver Schuetze and Lothar Thiele)
• I was guest editor of the special issue of OR Spectrum on Multicriteria Optimization and Decision Support in Industry 44(2), 2022 (with Karl-Heintz Kuefer, Stefan Ruzika and Serpil Sayin)
• I was guest editor of the special issue of the Journal of Global Optimization on Global Multiobjective Optimization 80(1), 2021 (with Serpil Sayin)
• I was principal investigator the project Decision Support for Computationally Demanding Optimization Problems (DESDEO), funded by the Academy of Finland, 2015-2019
• I was guest editor of the special issue of Journal of Global Optimization on Global Optimization with Multiple Criteria: theory, Methods and Applications, 75(1), 2019 (with Francisco Ruiz)
• I was guest editor of the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing on Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization 22(1), 2018 (with Yaochu Jin and Hisao Ishibushi)
• I was principal investigator of the FiDiPro project Decision Support for Complex Multiobjective Optimization Problems funded by Tekes, 2015-2017
• I was the track chair of the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making which is a part of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Athens, Greece, December 2016
• I was guest editor of the special issue of Journal of Global Optimization devoted to the MCDM2013 conference, 64(1), 2016 (with Jussi Hakanen, Dmitry Podkopaev and Ingrida Steponavice)
• I was a guest editor of the special issue devoted to the EURO2012 conference published in the Journal of Global Optimization 60(1), 2014 (with Adil Baghirov and Gerhard-Willem Weber)
• I was a guest editor of the special issue devoted to the MCDM2011 conference published in the Journal of Global Optimization 57(2), 2013  (with Serpil Sayin)
• I was a guest editor of the Special Issue devoted to the MCDM2009 Conference published in the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 18(1-2), 2011 (with Gang Gou and Yong Shi)
• I was the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the SIMPRO project (Computational methods in mechanical engineering product development) funded by Tekes and companies (joint project with VTT, Aalto University, Tampere University of Technology and Lappeenranta University of Technology), 2012-2015.
• I was the responsible for the multiobjective optimization part of the project Optimal Joint Production of Ecological and Economic Values in Forest Landscapes led by Prof. Mikko Mönkkönen at the University of Jyväskylä funded by the Academy of Finland, 2011-2014
• I was the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the HUBI project funded by Tekes and companies (joint project with VTT), 2011-2013
• I was the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the ForestCluster and Tekes funded project POJo (joint project with Tampere University of Technology, VTT, Aalto University School of Science and Technology and University of Eastern Finland), 2008-2010 and its follow-up project WP9 (Optimization Structures and Operation of Entire Production Systems) in the Effnet programme of ForestCluster, 2010-2012 (2013)
• I was leader in charge of the project 'Strategic Development of Multiobjective Optimization: Theory and Software' funded by the Academy of Finland, University of Jyväskylä, 2009-2012
• I have co-chaired four Dagstuhl seminars in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2012. The last of them I organized together with Salvatore Greco, Joshua Knowles and Eckart Zitzler in January 2012 on Learning in Multiobjective Optimization
• I was the General chair of the 21th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (Jyväskylä, June 2011)
• I was the responsible leader at the University of Jyväskylä in the Tekes funded project BioScen (joint project with VTT and Aalto University School of Science and Technology), which was a part of the BioRefine programme, 2008-2011
• I was the leader in charge (and coordinator) of the joint project "Multiobjective Optimization and Multidisciplinary Decision Support" (2005-2008). The project belonged to the Finnish national programme on Modeling and Simulation (MASI) funded by Tekes, Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation and companies
• I was in charge of the project "NIMBUS - Multiobjective Optimization in Product Development" at the University of Jyväskylä 2001-2005
• I organized in December 1996 a Noon2nooN Seminar on Decision Analysis and Applications for the researchers and postgraduate students of decision science, group decision making, multiobjective optimization, information systems and related areas

Scientific Positions of Trust

• I am member of the University Collegium of the University of Jyväskylä, 2018-2021, 2022-2025
• I am chair of Panel 1 (Mathematics and Statistics) of the Finnish Publication Forum, 2018-2021, 2022-2025
• I am vice-chairman of the Mathematics and Computer Science Group of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2019-2023
• I have title of docent in mathematical methods and applications of decision making at the Aalto University
• I am member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force Group on Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms, 2014-
• I am a member of the Steering Committee of EMO (Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization), 2008-

Past:

• I was member of the Steering Group on Datastreams and Research Information Assets of Research Administration, Ministry of Education and Culture, 2017-2020
• I was Immediate-Past President of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, 2015-2019
• I was President of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making 2011-2015
• I was chair of the Science Council of the University of Jyväskylä, 2012-2017
• I was head of the University of Jyväskylä Graduate School for Doctoral Studies, 2012-2017
• I was member of the steering group of the Publication Forum Project, 2012-2015
• I was member of the OKM-ICT-2015 project group on Information and Communication Technology appointed by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland, 2013-2015
• I was Chair of EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO 2010-2012
• I was a member of the board of directors of the COMAS Doctoral Program at the University of Jyväskylä, 2003-2005, 2007-2015
• I was a deputy of the steering group and member of board of advisors of the Finnish Graduate School in Computational Sciences (FICS), 2009-2013
• I am a member of the Systems Analysis Division of the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence, 2006-2009, 2010-2013
• I was a member of the International Steering Committee of OIPE - Workshop on Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics Series, 2008-2014
• I was President-Elect of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making 2008-2011
• I was the Chair Elect of EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO, 2008-2010
• I was the President of the Finnish Society of Computational Sciences, 2010 and Vice-president of the same, 2007-2009
• I was the Chair of the organizing committee of the IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization (Jyväskylä, Finland, May 2009)
• I was a member of the organizing committee of the 67th Meeting of the European Working Group "Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding" (Rovaniemi, Finland, April 2008)
• I was the President of the Finnish Operations Research Society in 2002-2003, member of the board in 2007-2008, 2010-2011, 2013-2014 and a debuty of the board in 1997-2001, 2004-2006, 2009, 2012
• I was the secretary of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making 1997-2008
• I was Member of the Managing Board of EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO and Newsletter Editor, 2006-2008
• I was a member of the Working Group appointed by the Ministry of Education in Finland for the National Development of Computational Sciences, 2006-2007
• I was a member of the Support Group for Innovation Activities at the University of Jyväskylä, 2004-2007
• I was in charge of quantitative methodologies and methods (in common scientific doctoral studies in the doctoral program) and the doctoral program in Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management Science at Helsinki School of Economics, 2004-2007
• I was a member of the board of directors of the CMCM Institute (Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling) at the University of Jyväskylä in 1999-2003
• I was a deputy of the executive group of information management and a deputy of the board of the Computing Center at the University of Jyväskylä till 2004
• I was a member of the local organizing committee of the Eurogen99 Short Course. It took place in Jyväskylä in the spring 1999
• I was a deputy of the board of the Computing Center at the University of Jyväskylä, 1997-2004
• I was the coordinator of the EU-Thematic Network INGENET at the University of Jyväskylä 1997-2003
• In 1992-1997 I was the technical editor of the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Mathematics, Laboratory of Scientific Computing, Report Series

Scientific Tasks as an Expert

• I am a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Global Optimization
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Optimization and Engineering
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Optimization Letters
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal OR Spectrum
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal SN Operations Research Forum
• I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• I have been invited to act as a referee for Zentralblatt MATH

Past:

• I was a member of the editorial board of Journal of the Operational Research Society till 2020
• I was a member of the editorial board of the journal Metaheuristics
• I gave invited talks in preparation seminars of the MASI technology program of Tekes (2004) and the research programme on computational sciences of the Academy of Finland (2008)
• I was an editor in chief of the journal IFORS - membership journal of the Finnish Operations Research Society, 2002-2003

Invited Honorary Presentations

Supervision and Summer Schools etc.

• I have been a supervisor of nineteen doctoral theses (fourteen at the University of Jyväskylä: Marjo Haarala (2004), Maria Dementieva (2004), Heikki Maaranen (2004), Jussi Hakanen (2006), Iryna Yevseyeva (2007), Anne Setämaa-Kärkkäinen (2008), Timo Aittokoski (2009), Karthik Sindhya (2011), Markus Hartikainen (2011), Tomi Haanpää (2012), Vesa Ojalehto (2014), Mohammad Tabatabaei (2016), Tinkle Chugh (2017), Yue Zhou-Kangas (2018), Atanu Mazumdar (2021), Bhupinder Singh Saini (2022), Pouya Aghaei pour (2022) one at Helsinki School of Economics: Petri Eskelinen (2008) and one at the University of Eastern Finland: Henri Ruotsalainen (2010)) and administrative supervisor of one doctoral thesis (at Helsinki School of Economics, Pekka Malo (2007))
• I was an invited lecturer in the EURO PhD Summer School on MCDA/MCDM, Chania, Greece, August 2018
• I was an invited lecturer in the virtual course "Modelling and Optimization", Tampere University of Technology, 2006
• I was an invited lecturer at the Felix Klein Summer School, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2010
• I was an invited lecturer at Autumn School of the Gaduiertenkolleg "Optimization", Siegmundsburg/Thür, Germany, October - November 2004
• I was an invited lecturer at International M.Sc. Degree in Complexity and Its Interdisciplinary Applications, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Pavia, Italy, April 2004
• I was an invited lecturer in the Summer School on Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 2003
• I was an invited lecturer at the 6th International Summer School on MCDA, Turku, Finland, July - August 1997

Member of Societies

• Mathematical Optimization Society
• International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
• EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO
• European Working Group "Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding"
• Finnish Operations Research Society
• INFORMS Section on MCDM
• International Society of Global Optimization

Software

·         WWW-NIMBUS is an interactive multiobjective optimization sofware working via the Internet. There are two versions at your disposal, for free! The newer one, so called scalar version and the older one, so called vector version

• IND-NIMBUS is an interactive multiobjective optimization sofware for industrial problems and different operating systems.
• DESDEO is an open source software framework for interactive multiobjective optimization methods
• Links to implementations of individual methods in the list of publications

Miscellaneous

• Degree in open sea navigation, 2002 (award for the best degree in Finland in 2002)

Miscellaneous links