Dr. Seppo Virtanen is Professor and Chair of Cyber Security Engineering, and Vice Head of Department of Computing at the University of Turku, Finland. He received his MSc in applied physics (electronics and information technology) in 1998 and his PhD [DSc(Tech)] in Communication Systems in 2004 from the University of Turku. In 2009, he was awarded the title of adjunct professor (dosentti) in Embedded Communication Systems. He completed his certificate in university pedagogy in 2010 and became a holder of the government decree regulated teacher's competence and qualification. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has supervised six PhD theses and more than 160 Master’s theses to completion. He has taught more than 80 instances of more than 25 different university courses to engineering students as principal instructor. His current research interests are on the application of AI on cyber security, technologies for network security solutions and security technologies for IoT.