An internationally leading researcher in constraint-based methods for planning and decision-making. Prof. Dr Rintanen obtained his doctoral degree from Helsinki University of Technology in 1997, his professor qualification (venia legendi) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg in 2005, and held academic positions also at the National ICT Australia / the Australian National University. Prof. Rintanen's main interests in the last 5 years have been in applying AI technologies to automating software production, synthesis of intelligent software systems, as well as the application of constraint-based search methods to decision-making.