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Jousia Piha

Experience

Work

AI and Methods Services Trainee

Statistics Finland

May 2026 - August 2026

Built a semantic and contextual layer between large language models and statistical data so the language model can provide controlled answers from statistical data.

Research Assistant

University of Turku / TurkuNLP

May 2024 - December 2025

Worked on Finnish and multilingual language model evaluation, benchmark development, dataset preparation, validation, reporting, and HPC research runs. Contributed to HPLT and FIN-bench-v2 work, supervised one bachelor's thesis under professor supervision, and presented research at ACL 2025.

ICT Specialist

Terveyspalvelut Sympatikus Oy

2015 - present, part-time

Website administration, helpdesk, IT security support, and digital communication workspace design for a small organization. A long-running exercise in doing practical ICT where the users are real and the problems have names.

Copywriter

Poutapilvi Web Design

2012 - 2014

Wrote newsletters, announcements, brochures, web texts, edited customer material, and practiced the old art of making a page say what it claims to say.

Education

M.Sc., Cybersecurity and NLP

University of Turku, 2023 - present

Cybersecurity studies with strong NLP and language technology work: system and application security, network security, firewall and IPS technology, ethical hacking, corpus processing, automatic text processing, and deep learning for human language technology.

B.Eng., Information and Communication Technology

Turku University of Applied Sciences, completed

Telecommunications, networking, electronics, routing and switching, fiber-optic networks, product development, and the useful habit of remembering that software eventually touches physical reality.

Media and Copywriting Studies

Turku University of Applied Sciences, earlier studies

Professional copywriting, web writing, proofreading, plain language, campaign planning, visual storytelling, and communication for people who did not ask for a stack trace.

Publications

  • HPLT paper: co-authored ACL 2025 paper on HPLT v2 multilingual corpora and language technology data pipelines.
  • FIN-bench-v2 paper: co-authored Finnish LLM evaluation benchmark suite.

Award

Capstone Innovation Project: Wireless IoT With LoRa

Best technical content, Turku University of Applied Sciences, 2018.

CV and projects