Jokke Häsä
Photo Linda Tammisto
Official title: Data Scientist
Tel. +358 50 3457152
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Research design
- Statistical methods
- Machine learning
- Behavioural science
- Care for older people
- Education
- Mathematics
Primary duties
- Analytics and modelling
- Research design and data queries
- Research topics: care for older people, digital well-being, learning and behaviour
- Internal training
Education
- 2013, Doctor of Philosophy, mathematics, Imperial College London
- 2008, Master of Science, mathematics, University of Helsinki
Professional background
- 2021–, Data Scientist, Data and Analytics Unit, THL
- 2018–2020, Lecturer in University Pegagogy, Centre for University Teaching and Learning, University of Helsinki
- 2017–2019, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki
Current projects
- 2024–, Extracting information from unstructured text data in the Finnish patient data repository with machine learning methods (Aioli)
- 2023–, Living with dementia: Social relational perspective to sustainable care
Previous projects
- 2024–2025, Searching for information wellbeing: Democracy, inclusion and wellbeing in the information society
- 2021–2025, Individualized CARE for Older Persons with Complex Chronic Conditions at home and in nursing homes (I-CARE4OLD)
- 2022–2023, Integration of health and social services for older people – service needs in home care (SOIPA, Finnish project page)
- 2021–2023, Crisis Narratives
Supervised students
- Anni Sydänmaanlakka (UH, ongoing): From contact to distance learning: Students’ mathematics-related achievement emotions in different learning environments.
- Virág Kulcsár (UH/THL, 2025): Membership inference attack against fine-tuned language models.
Affiliations
No affiliations
Publications and research
- Egbujie, B. A., Betini, G., Ochwat, S., Mulla, R. T., Häsä, J., Edgren, J., ... & Hirdes, J. P. (2025). Cross-National Evidence on Risk of Death Associated with Loneliness: A Survival Analysis of 1-Year All-Cause Mortality among Older Adult Home Care Recipients in Canada, Finland, and Aotearoa | New Zealand. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 26(7), 105687.
- Edgren, J., Häsä, J., & Aaltonen, M. (2025). Health, functioning and social engagement among older people living in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland: a register-based cohort study. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 929.
- Hoogendijk, E. O., Onder, G., Smalbil, L., Vetrano, D. L., Hirdes, J. P., Howard, E. P., ... & van Hout, H. P. (2023). Optimising the care for older persons with complex chronic conditions in home care and nursing homes: design and protocol of I-CARE4OLD, an observational study using real-world data. BMJ open, 13(6), e072399.
Selected publications not affiliated with THL
- Sydänmaanlakka, A., Häsä, J., Holm, M. E., & Hannula, M. S. (2025). The connection between distance learning profiles and achievement emotions in secondary mathematics education. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 40(1), 35.
- Biese, M., Sydänmaanlakka, A. S., Holm, M. E., Häsä, J., & Hannula, M. S. (2024). Differences in mathematics-related achievement emotions between contact and distance learning arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic. Educational Psychology, 44(1), 96–116.
- Häsä, J., Westlin, L., & Rämö, J. (2023). Undergraduate students’ attitudes towards mathematical proving in an introduction to proof course. Educational Studies in Mathematics. Advance online publication.
- Asikainen, H., Nieminen, J. H., Häsä, J., & Katajavuori, N. (2022). University students’ interest and burnout profiles and their relation to approaches to learning and achievement. Learning and Individual Differences, 93, 102105.
- Häsä, J., Rämö, J., & Nieminen, J. H. (2021). Supporting quality of learning by letting students give their own grades: An innovative self-assessment model in university mathematics. In Z. Yan & L. Yang (Eds.), Assessment as Learning (pp. 232–243). Routledge.
- Rämö, J., Reinholz, D., Häsä, J., & Lahdenperä, J. (2019). Extreme apprenticeship: Instructional change as a gateway to systemic improvement. Innovative Higher Education, 44, 351–365.
