Seppo Törmä
Director Of The Research Programme On Intelligence And Lifecycle Wisdom In The Built Environment at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolSeppo Törmä is a research-driven technology leader with over 25 years of experience at the intersection of semantic web technologies and the built environment, now directing Metropolia’s Research Programme on Intelligence and Lifecycle Wisdom in the Built Environment. He combines deep expertise in knowledge graphs, ontologies (ifcOWL, BOT, BFO, DiCon), and RDF/OWL/SPARQL toolchains with practical BIM standards knowledge (IFC, ISO 19650) to make building data interoperable and actionable. As a former CEO and co-founder of VisuaLynk and a long-standing principal lecturer, he bridges academic research, startup productization, and international education. His background includes early work in service-oriented and location-aware systems and a postdoc at CMU, reflecting a consistent focus on linking complex systems via semantics and visualization. Colleagues know him for pairing rigorous formal ontology practice with collaborative concept- and dialogue-mapping techniques to solve real-world construction information challenges. Based in Espoo, Finland, he pairs a D.Sc. in Computer Science with hands-on leadership in digital construction research and industry engagement.
10 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
AmO - Teacher's pedagogical qualification, EDUCATION, AmO - Teacher's pedagogical qualification, EDUCATION at Haaga-Helia School of Vocational Teacher EducationD.Sc (Tech), Computer Science, D.Sc (Tech), Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanAlppilan lukioProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
digitalconstruction/digitalconstruction.github.io
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:75 commits, 120 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
digitalconstruction/Entities
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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