Petri Lievonen
Master of Science (Technology) in Industrial Engineering and Management (2017)
Petri Lievonen is working as a Research Associate (Mathematics, Physics, and the Humanities) with the Physics Foundations Society PFS, while also founder and CEO of Screen.io Corporation. “I prefer simplicity in complexity, and complexity in simplicity. Collaboration and deep reflection are fundamental for progress in science.”
Petri developed some early prototypes of later more advanced conference tools such as Presemo for various organisations and corporations in the 2000s, and has also since been advocating for similar fundamentally simple and dependable, human-centric tools. Petri has a M.Sc in Strategy and Venturing from Aalto University, but during the years has also contributed to high-performance realtime graphics (demoscene, releases), grassroots cultural organizing efforts (co-founder of Pixelache Festival and related Piknik Frequency association), systems analysis and decision making (as a research and teaching assistant in applied mathematics), positive organizational psychology (as a collaborator to professor Esa Saarinen, see also), teaching machine learning and cybernetics at Aalto University (as a collaborator to professor Heikki Hyötyniemi), developing real-time web technologies and system software (at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT), among various other projects. His surname is related to Finnish mythology.
Lately he has been studying and evaluating Tuomo Suntola's foundational research from the perspective of mathematics and natural sciences, in conjunction with a multi-year project at the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. He has also traveled widely with the family and is enjoying every day working for various problems and their solutions, with the human element in the mix.
See Mathematical Visualizations for current research.
Lievonen jokes that he is currently LARPing his own personal Annus Mirabilis (or rather Decennium Mirabile) by being able to concentrate on the hyperspaces of Suntola, while also being inspired and propelled by the cyberspaces of Hyötyniemi and life's traces (link in Finnish) of E. Saarinen.