Hi, I am Jonas Oppenlaender ().

In my previous position, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Elisa Corporation in Helsinki, Finland,where my aim was to research, identify, propose, and evaluate effective recipes and technical solutions for adapting LLMs to specialized tasks within telecommunications and engineering. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Central Finland where I researched prompt engineering and text-to-image generation. Prompt engineering has been my primary research interest since 2021.

I completed my PhD in the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu, where I received a distinction for my thesis on creative crowdsourcing, creativity support tools, and crowd feedback systems. I also hold a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Southampton and studied Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and Linköping University in Sweden, earning a degree of Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur. Before my doctoral position, I worked as a researcher at the Human-Centered Computing group at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Cluster of Excellence "Bild Wissen Gestaltung" in Berlin. I also have industry experience as a Business Analyst and Strategy Analyst at Alstom (now GE) and have worked in agile teams as a web developer at Seme4 and Liip.

In my PhD and PostDoc years, I authored some highly innovative publications on topics that nobody had researched before:
Creativity of text-to-image generation (3569219.3569352)
Creativity on paid crowdsourcing platforms (3313831.3376677)
Crowd Pilot Studies (3641023)

My current research interests, based on the academic literature I read, are reflected on this page. A list of researchers who have inspired my work over the years can be found here.

In my spare time, I enjoy dabbling with AI-generated art and am a kettlebell salesman. I have lived, studied, and/or worked in several countries including Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Macedonia, the United States, and Finland.

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