Rate My Professor Janne Lindqvist

Janne Lindqvist is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. He received his Doctor of Science in Technology (D.Sc. Tech.) from Helsinki University of Technology in 2009 and his Master of Science in Technology (M.Sc. Tech.) in 2005. After completing his doctorate, Lindqvist was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from 2009 to 2011. He then joined Rutgers University as Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2011 to 2013, advanced to Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2019, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure from 2019 to 2020. In 2020, he joined Aalto University as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Since August 2022, he has served as Head of the Department. Additionally, he has been Director of the Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (HAIC) since 2020 and Vice-Director of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) from 2020 to 2022.

Lindqvist's research specializes in security engineering, science of security, human-computer interaction, user research, privacy engineering, systems security and privacy, and usable security and privacy. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and was the first researcher in Finland to receive a Mozilla Research Grant in 2020 for a project investigating user experience in online video streaming. His publication record includes highly cited works such as "Expectation and purpose: understanding users' mental models of mobile app privacy through crowdsourcing" (2012, 723 citations), "I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use Foursquare—a social-driven location sharing application" (2011, 624 citations), "Whose move is it anyway? Authenticating smart wearable devices using unique head movement patterns" (2016, 167 citations), and "The motivations and experiences of the on-demand mobile workforce" (2014, 157 citations). Recent awards include CHI Best Paper Awards in 2024 and 2026, and a CHI Honorable Mention Award in 2025. Lindqvist has served as Principal Investigator on projects such as ENJOYSEC (2022-2024) and MAGE (2021-2025), contributed to program committees for CHI and the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, delivered keynotes including at UbiComp 2020, and acted as an opponent for doctoral dissertations.