Ville Leppänen
Vice dean (education), Faculty of Technology
ville.leppanen@utu.fi +358 29 450 2461 +358 40 739 3060 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 455D ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5296-677X |
software engineering; software development; agile methods; technical debt; programming; software security; privacy; GDPR; privacy design; software resilience; intrusion detection; HIDS; introspection; execution monitoring; software diversification; honeypots; virtual execution environments; vulnerability discrovery management; web dependecy issues; software supplychain issues; trusted computing; IoT security; autonomous system security; parallel execution architectures
Prof. Ville Leppänen (male) is a full professor in software engineering and software security (since 2012). At the moment, he is also vice dean of Faculty of Technology. He received his PhD in 1996 (Computer Science) and has now over 230 international conference and journal publications. His research interests are related broadly to software engineering and security, ranging from software engineering methodologies, practices, and tools to security and quality issues, as well as to programming languages, parallelism, and architectural design topics. His security related research has focused on IoT and cloud security, resiliency tools for software based diversification, vulnerability analyses, machine learning based profiling for host intrusion detection systems, introspection mechanisms, and fake service generation. Leppänen is a member in several boards and working groups in University of Turku and outside the university.
Research interests are related broadly to software engineering, privacy issues and security, ranging from software engineering methodologies, practices, and tools to security and quality issues, as well as to programming languages, parallelism, and architectural design topics. Security related research has focused on IoT and cloud security, resiliency tools for software based diversification, vulnerability analyses, machine learning based profiling for host intrusion detection systems, introspection mechanisms, and fake service generation. Privacy related research is recently focused on software engineer's activities in creating privacy-respecting applications and services, the visible problems in the landscape of such software artefacts.
Currently the main teaching responsibilities are related to instructing MSc/BSc theses, giving Master's Thesis in Technology Seminar, and lecture course 'Privacy and Security for Software Systems'.
In the past, since 1997 I have taught over 50 courses instances at the University of Turku. Among those are e.g.
- MSc in technology thesis seminar (more than 10 times),
- Privacy and Security for Software Systems,
- System and application security (partly, several times),
- User interface techniques (10 times),
- Techniques for distributed applications (9 times),
- Client-server applications and user interfaces (3 times),
- Seminar on software engineering (3 times),
- Distributed systems (4 times),
- Software agent technology,
- Programming mobile devices (3 times),
- Software architectures,
- Web programming,
- Programming II (Java),
- Programming I (Java; 3 times),
- Advanced course on programming (Eiffel; twice),
- Science of Programming,
- Parallel Algorithms, and
- Computer network security.
Many of the courses have been very big (e.g. 436; Programming I). Giving such large courses required good management of a team of course assistants. Most of the courses in the above list are created by me and held for the first time in our university.
- 2024
- Health and technologySoftware and Systems Modeling
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Extracting LPL privacy policy purposes from annotated web service source code (2023)
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Framework for the Evaluation of Cybersecurity Curriculum Educational Content (2023)
- Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference
- From Whistle to Echo: Data Leaks in Web-Based Whistleblowing ChannelsMotivation for continuous software engineering expertise development through lifelong learning2023
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Henkilötietojen käsittelyn läpinäkyvyys ja joukkoliikenteen mobiilisovellukset (2023)
- Liikenne
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - (2023)
- Proceedings of the International CDIO ConferenceMicroprocessors and Microsystems
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Preliminary Performance and Memory Access Scalability Study of Thick Control Flow Processors (2023) 2023 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS) Forsell Martti, Roivainen Jussi, Leppänen Ville, Larsson Träff Jesper
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - (2023)
- International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Realizing multioperations and multiprefixes in Thick Control Flow processors (2023)
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Study of Third-Party Analytics Services on University Websites (2023)
- Lecture notes in networks and systems
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Third-party Services as a Privacy Threat on University Websites (2023) CompSysTech '23: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies Heino Timi, Rauti Sampsa, Carlsson Robin, Leppänen Ville
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Assessing discrepancies between network traffic and privacy policies of public sector web services (2022) ARES 2022: The 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security Heino Timi, Carlsson Robin, Rauti Sampsa, Leppänen Ville
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Performance and programmability comparison of the thick control flow architecture and current multicore processors (2022)
- Journal of Supercomputing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Where does your data go? Comparing network traffic and privacy policies of public sector mobile applications (2022)
- Lecture notes in networks and systems
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Fitting Security into Agile Software Development (2021) Research Anthology on Recent Trends, Tools, and Implications of Computer Programming Rindell Kalle, Hyrynsalmi Sami, Leppänen Ville
(Other (O2)) - From Setting Up Innovation in a Novel Context To Discovering Sustainable Business — A Framework for Short-Term Events (2021)
- Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Security in agile software development: A practitioner survey (2021)
- Information and Software Technology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The 5th International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT (IoT-SECFOR 2021) (2021) Proceedings of ARES 2021: The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security Franqueira Virginia N.L., Mileva Aleksandra, Leppänen Ville, Inácio Pedro, Conti Mauro, Lopes Raul H.C., Adnane Asma, Zhai Xiaojun
(Other (O2)) - A Mixed Methods Probe into the Direct Disclosure of Software Vulnerabilities (2020)
- Computers in Human Behavior
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Annotation-based static analysis for personal data protection (2020)
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4))