Bemmu Sepponen

Arkkitehdinkatu 30 C 17
33720 Tampere
+358-44-256-2631

Education

9/2001 - 4/2008, Bachelor of Computer Science, minor subject Japanese, University of Tampere, Finland.
9/2003 - 7/2005, exchange student at International Christian University, Tokyo.

Bachelor's Thesis (Finnish) - comparison of basic networking in a web application using AJAX, Flash or Java

Work experience

8/2007 - ongoing, self-employed, developing applications for social networks -- reached combined install base over 9 million users, six figure ad revenues

2/2000 - 9/2003 Department of Information Studies
Developed a software package used by instructors and researchers of freetext search for displaying the success rate of a search graphically and web services used in an EU project Clarity for cross language information retrieval.

1997 - 1999, Data Universum Oy
Software development related to freetext search and processing railroad track measurements.

Skills

PHP, MySQL, C, ActionScript, Javascript, Java Servlets. Native Finnish speaker, excellent English skills, intermediate/advanced Japanese speaker. X-ray vision and time travel skills. Just don't splash me with water or feed after midnight. Currently learning Objective-C with Cocoa Touch.

Recommenders

Kalervo Järvelin and Eero Sormunen, Professors at the University of Tampere, Department of Information Studies.

Other

Third place in Assembly 2005 browser demo programming competition.
Translated published works from Japanese to Finnish as a freelancer for Egmont Kustannus and Sangatsu Manga
Organized for-profit trips to Japan for tourists and sold Japanese imports through a web store programmed from scratch with PHP

Publications and presentations

2002, SOAP Usage in Clarity, presentation given at CLASSiks workshop, Berlin.

2002, Eero Sormunen, Sakari Hokkanen, Petteri Kangaslampi, Petri Pyy, Bemmu Sepponen: Query performance analyser: a web-based tool for IR research and instruction. SIGIR 2002: 450

2001, Hedlund, T. & Keskustalo, H. & Pirkola, A. & Sepponen, M. & Järvelin, K (2001). Bilingual Tests with Swedish, Finnish and German Queries: Dealing with Morphology, Compound Words and Query Structure. In: Peters, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the CLEF 2000 Cross-Language Text Retrieval System Evaluation Campaign, September 2000, Lisbon. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2069, pp. 211-225.

2000, Hedlund, T. & Keskustalo, H. & Pirkola, A. & Sepponen, M. & Järvelin, K (2000). Bilingual tests with Swedish, Finnish and German queries. In: Peters, C. (ed.) First results of the CLEF 2000 Cross-Language Text Retrieval System Evaluation Campaign, Working Notes for the CLEF 2000 Workshop, September 2000, Lisbon, pp. 21-27.

2000, Markkula, Tico, Sepponen, Nirkkonen, Sormunen: A Test Collection for the Evaluation of Content-Based Image Retrieval Algorithms - A User and Task-Based Approach