I am a doctoral researcher at the INTERACT research group, part of the Software Engineering and Information Systems (SEIS) research unit at the University of Oulu. I am conducting my thesis under the supervision of prof. Netta Iivari and postdocs Sumita Sharma and Henna Tiensuu.

Since Fall 2025, I have been working on the ATOM project under Sumita Sharma, researching youth perspectives on how AI will shape the future of work, as well as devising methods to empower young people with the AI literacy skills enabling them to take more active roles in determining how these technologies will shape their future lives and careers. Beyond my primary research focus of AI literacy, I am interested in computational linguistics, philosophy of science, and the popularisation of scientific thinking.

I completed my M.Sc in computer science at the University of Oulu, with a specialisation in software engineering. During the final year of my master's thesis work (2024-2025), I co-authored two published conference papers exploring the AI perspectives of Finnish and Japanese children and youth, analysing data from my concurrent internship with the EdTech company Code School Finland as well as previous data collected by Sumita Sharma in the PAIZ project. 

Contact

Please email me at pauli.klemettila@oulu.fi

Publications

Klemettilä, P. A., Sharma, S., Mochiyama, F., Iivari, N., Iwata, M., & Koivisto, J. (2025).
‘It’s Just a Machine that Predicts’—Demystifying Artificial Intelligence / Machine
Learning with Teenagers. Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children,
168–182. https://doi.org/10.1145/371304...

Sharma, S., Klemettilä, P., & Tanaka, J. (2025). A robot teacher ‘is very good for
learning, but not for human relationships’: Japanese Children’s Critical Perspectives
Towards Ethical AI Futures. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/370659...

Recognitions

SIGCHI Finland Master’s Thesis Competition. (2025). My
thesis, AI literacy as ‘a candle in the dark’ : exploring critical perspectives towards artificial intelligence with children and youth won first place in the annual, national competition for HCI-related master’s theses hosted by Finland Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction.