Juho Leinonen
The key question that my research seeks to answer is how to best support and engage diverse learner populations with educational technology and artificial intelligence. My research tackles this challenge in three intertwined ways: 1) by developing deeper insights into students’ learning through fine-grained learning analytics; 2) by utilizing educational technology, artificial intelligence, and large language models to support both students and teachers; and 3) by leveraging learnersourcing to create ample learning opportunities tailored to distinct student needs.
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Email
juho.2.leinonen@aalto.fi
Phone number
+358505126323
Areas of expertise
113 Computer and information sciences, 516 Educational sciences, Software engineering, operating systems, man-computer interaction
Honors and awards
Best Research Paper of 2025 Award at the GenAI in CS Education Workshop: Practice and Research (AICSEPAR) 2026
Best Research Paper of 2025 Award at the GenAI in CS Education Workshop: Practice and Research (AICSEPAR) 2026 for "Probing the Unknown: Exploring Student Interactions with Probeable Problems at Scale in Introductory Programming": https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3724363.3729093
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Computer Science
Mar 2026
Aalto Pioneering Excellence Honorable Mention
Aalto Pioneering Excellence Honorable Mention was awarded to the Programming Education Team of the Computer Science department of the School of Science
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Department of Computer Science
Nov 2025
ACE2024 Best Paper Award
Best paper award for "Evaluating LLM-generated Worked Examples in an Introductory Programming Course": https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3636243.3636252
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Department of Computer Science
Jan 2024
UKICER 2023 Best Paper Award
For "Exploring the Interplay of Achievement Goals, Self-Efficacy, Prior Experience and Course Achievement"
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Computer Science Lecturers
Sep 2023
The best practitioner paper at the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference, ACE 2023
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Department of Computer Science
Jan 2023
ICER 2022 Best Paper Award for Article "Automatic Generation of Programming Exercises and Code Explanations Using Large Language Models"
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Computer Science Lecturers
Jan 2022
SIGCSE TS 2022 Best Paper Computing Education Research
For "Time-on-Task Metrics for Predicting Performance"
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Department of Computer Science
Mar 2022
Best Paper Award at the 23rd Australasian Computing Education Conference, ACE2021
Best Paper Award at the 23rd Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2021) for the paper "Exploring the Effects of Contextualized Problem Descriptions on Problem Solving”.
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Computer Science
Feb 2021
Research groups
- Computer Science Professors, Assistant Professor
- Professorship Leinonen Juho, Assistant Professor
- Computer Science RA - Computing Education Research, Assistant Professor