Matias Ijäs

Awards

ECSM best poster

ECSM was an European conference concerning about social media. I presented a poster about finding outcasts from a group. That way we could prevent loneliness, radicalization and improve the school systems.

TuKoKe 3rd award

TuKoKe is a scientific writing/research competition in Finland. Our team presented a model of Somalian energy production. It was a small part of a larger project, but visualization and critical results brough us to the finals.

Paras ledivilkutin - Best led blinker

The competition was part of a course in TUT. The idea was to create a circuit board, which had leds. Our team decided to make a game. The name of the game was "Teekkarin Tenttiviikko". The idea was to avoid all of the incoming deadlines - The game speed increased as the player progressed.

Survo -ristikkokilpailu - Survo mathematical problem solving competition

The goal of the competition was to solve 4x4 matrix filled with numbers 1-16 as fast as possible. I participated, while I was in the 9th grade and won one of the qualifying rounds.

MAOL matematiikkakilpailut - MAOL mathematical competitions

I participated to all MAOL mathematical competitions from 7th grade to end of the high school. Usually my standing were inbetween 20 and 50 in Finland.

Other national competitions

I was very competetive, so I participated to almost any competition possible from 7th grade to the end of high school. Usually, I was in the top-3 of my school. That was great, but not superior.

(Gaming) Heroes of the Storm - Heroes Lounge

Our team participated in amateur/semi-pro series of Heroes of the Storm. Heroes Lounge was for all teams with different skill levels. I was co-captain of our team Water Dragons. We were 3rd in the finals of the first season. My nickname was NemoHostem. Other members of our team were Jufda (captain), Nebet, Kankeli, Oktaani, Smexlock and Yuisuke. Our strategy was to be extremely aggressive and punish enemies from their mistakes.

Elisa 5G - mobile gaming event

I participated in the qualifying event of Elisa Hatch 5G. It is a mobile gaming event. I gain my spot at the finals by being top-4 in the qualifyings. I was 3rd. The final event will be held in Tampere later this year.

Publications

(Scythe) Team 3E: Power Production Model of the "Humanitarian Assistance and Global Warming" Simulator

This was part of a larger model. We modeled an optimal energy production method for Somalia.

(Publication, ECSM) Scalable algorithm for computing influence spreading probabilities in social networks

This was a publication about influence spreading in existing social networks in English. 20 minute presentation was held in ECSM 2018.

(Poster, ECSM) Scalable Algorithm for Finding Outcasts in Social Networks

This is a poster of my Bachelor's thesis in English. The poster was awarded as the best in ECSM 2018.

(Bachelor's thesis, TUT) Scalable Algorithm for Finding Outcasts from Social Networks

I wanted to do a cross-scientific research for a real-world problem. Thesis has an abstract in English.

Poster about Finding Outcasts in Social Networks


Presenting it at ECSM

Certificates

ECSM certificates

I participated in the workshop about Big Data mining from social media. I also attended the conference actively by presenting both the research paper and the poster.

Elements of AI

I have completed the course Elements of AI. It was held by Helsinki (Open) University together with Finnish companies like Reaktor.