Overview

A professor of software construction, an adjunct professor of entertainment software engineering, a doctor of science in software engineering and a non-fiction author currently working in higher education. Background on qualitative studies on game development and game industry, software testing and test process development from the viewpoint of process organization. Prior to focusing on the software engineering aspects, worked actively on fields such as computer science education, teaching applications and blended learning. Adj. Prof. Kasurinen is also the third person in the history of the LUT to be awarded the LTKY Teaching Award twice.

Due to the appearance as a moonbase citizen in the Iron Sky: The Coming Race, has a Bacon-Erdos-index of 8: Bacon-Mullally-Green-Kasurinen-Smolander-Purao-Thomas-Taylor-Erdos

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9454-8664

IMDB profile: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7981894/

Research interests

Current research interests include but are not restricted to software and games industry, software and game development, smart technologies, software processes, software production methods and testing strategies. Additionally, personal interest and active member of research community in the earlier research topics like distance learning, user behavior analysis and computer science education.

Besides academia

Besides academia, Jussi Kasurinen is a TEK and Professor Union vice representative from Eastern Finland. Dr. Kasurinen has also written several books related to computer science and software engineering, published both in Finnish and English.

Previously given courses at university-level: