Altti Ilari Maarala is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Since 2019, he has been working as a researcher in the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. He started his Ph.D. studies in 2016 in the Department of Computer science, Aalto University, Finland. After receiving his M.Sc. in computer science in 2014 from the University of Oulu, he joined the Interactive Spaces research group as a researcher. He has been working also as a research assistant in the Machine Vision research group in the University of Oulu. His current research interests include distributed and parallel algorithms, computational genomics, and big data.