Hello. I’m Simo.

I’m an Adjunct Professor of Social Computing at the Center for Ubiquitous Computing and Center for Life Course Health (Oulu, Finland). Find my publications here and do connect with me on LinkedIn!

AnswerBot is my favourite toy! I’m interested in crowdsourcing and modelling the inherent knowledge in communities, for decision-making, to fuel ML/AI, and for co-creating meaningful solutions in domains such as civic engagement and digital health.

I own/run Kaizen Hour and I’ve got more than a decade of experience in building & marketing shiny things online, for fun as well as for profit.

I will be very happy if you contact me!

Latest News

• We won! A distinguished paper award, at IMWUT – the field’s top journal on ubiquitous computing: http://ubicomp.oulu.fi/distinguished-paper-award-ubicomp-2019/
• We’re HIRING: http://simohosio.com/digihealth (thanks to the news item below…)
• We won (me as the PI, yay) a very generous amount of funding, for 2020-2023, to hire a team of 3 scientists for creating patient-centric digital health solutions: https://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/node/59351