Ville Lehtola
Assistant Professor at Universiteit Twente
Eu, Normandy, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVille Lehtola is an assistant professor and computational scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in sensor fusion and AI for mobile mapping, robotics perception, and geoinformation applications (BIM & USD). He combines deep technical expertise in lidar, camera, inertial and GNSS integration with practical mobile mapping work at Universiteit Twente and prior research roles at Aalto and the Finnish National Land Survey. His multidisciplinary research bridges digital twin cities and human-centered systems, reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic rigor and urban-scale application. Beyond academia, he has hands-on governance experience as a former city councillor and board member in Espoo, contributing to major infrastructure and sustainability initiatives. That civic background gives him an uncommon perspective on societal impact and technology evaluation that informs his research and coding practice.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
D. Sc. (Tech.), Computational science, Physics, D. Sc. (Tech.), Computational science, Physics at Aalto UniversityM. Sc., Physics, Work Psychology and Leadership, M. Sc., Physics, Work Psychology and Leadership at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (2)
robotics6
slam6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vlehtola/slam-course
Aug 2024 - Feb 2026
Robotic perception SLAM course exercises
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 6 months
robotics
vlehtola/darkwood
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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