• Comment: Please read the notability guide carefully, WP:NPROF. Similar to the previous review nothing here demonstrated notability. There are also statements which are peacock (bragging). One example is "collaborated with 91 scholars" -- irrelevant boasting. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:13, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Please remove all inline external links from body text; convert to citations where relevant. DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:46, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Primary sources don't establish notability per WP:GNG, and I cannot see anything there that would obviously satisfy WP:NACADEMIC either. (I'm not saying this isn't notable, only that I cannot ascertain it at this time.) DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:45, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Mikko Tolonen
Born (1976-08-05) August 5, 1976 (age 47)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki, Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineDigital Humanities, History
Sub-disciplineComputational History, Enlightenment Studies

Mikko Sakari Tolonen (born August 5, 1976, in Espoo, Finland) is a digital humanities scholar. He is currently a professor of Digital Humanities in the University of Helsinki.[1] He specializes in the intellectual history and philosophy of the 18th century, focusing on the era's ideological developments.[2]

Between 2005 and 2006, Mikko Tolonen undertook doctoral research at Trinity College within the University of Cambridge.[3] He completed his PhD in History in 2010 at the University of Helsinki.[3]

Between 2010 and 2015, Mikko Tolonen served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Philosophical Psychology, Morality, and Politics Research Unit, an Academy of Finland Centre for Excellence in Research (2010-2012), and at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies (2012-2015).[3] Additionally, he was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of St Andrews, Department of Philosophy, during 2012–2013.[3] From 2015 to 2017, Mikko Tolonen also held a position at the National Library of Finland, where he focused on the research of digital resources, particularly in projects related to digitized newspapers.[4]

He achieved the title of docent in general history at the University of Helsinki on December 15, 2015.[3] His current role, since August 1, 2023, is as a full professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki.[1]

Mikko Tolonen has served on the executive board of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH)[5] and chairing the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB).[6]

Moreover, Tolonen has been involved in thirteen academic projects such as ”COMHIS: Helsinki Computational History Group” as the principal investigator[4] and “HPC-HD: High Performance Computing for the Detection and Analysis of Historical Discourses” as the project manager.[7]

Mikko Tolonen has received six academic awards. He was awarded with the Best Paper Awards at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN) conferences in both 2019 and 2020.[1] Tolonen was also the recipient of the Open Science and Research Award in 2016 given by Finnish Ministry of Education.[4]

Selected Publications edit

  • Tolonen, M. S. "Mandeville and Hume: Anatomists of Civil Society."[8]
  • Rosson, D. E., Mäkelä, E., Vaara, V., Mahadevan, A., Ryan, Y. C., & Tolonen, M. "Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications."[9]
  • Zhang, J., Ryan, Y. C., Rastas, I., Ginter, F., Tolonen, M., & Babbar, R. "Detecting Sequential Genre Change in Eighteenth-Century Texts."[10]
  • Rastas, I., Ryan, Y. C., Tiihonen, I. L. I., Qaraei, M., Repo, L., Babbar, R., Mäkelä, E., Tolonen, M., & Ginter, F. (2022). "Explainable Publication Year Prediction of Eighteenth Century Texts with the BERT Model." In N. Tahmasebi, S. Montariol, A. Kutuzov, S. Hengchen, H. Dubossarsky, & L. Borin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2022 (LChange 2022) (pp. 68–77). The Association for Computational Linguistics.[11]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Mikko Tolonen". University of Helsinki Research Portal. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  2. ^ Vilén, Tarja. "The Digital Humanist is Looking for New Information". CSC - IT Center for Science. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  3. ^ a b c d e >"On Academic Nights". 375 Humanists. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  4. ^ a b c "Mikko Tolonen". European Association for Digital Humanities. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  5. ^ "Executive Committee". European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH). Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  6. ^ "Board Members - Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB)". DHNB. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  7. ^ "People in HPC-HD". HPC-HD: High Performance Computing for the Detection and Analysis of Historical Discourses. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  8. ^ Tolonen, M. S. (2013). Mandeville and Hume: Anatomists of Civil Society. SVEC. Vol. 2013. Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  9. ^ Rosson, D. E.; Mäkelä, E.; Vaara, V.; Mahadevan, A.; Ryan, Y. C.; Tolonen, M. (2023). "Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications". Journal of Open Humanities Data. 9. doi:10.5334/johd.101.
  10. ^ Zhang, J.; Ryan, Y. C.; Rastas, I.; Ginter, F.; Tolonen, M.; Babbar, R. (2022). "Detecting Sequential Genre Change in Eighteenth-Century Texts" (PDF). In Karsdorp, F.; Lassche, A.; Nielbo, K. (eds.). Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Vol. 3290. CEUR-WS.org. pp. 243–255. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  11. ^ Rastas, I.; Ryan, Y. C.; Tiihonen, I. L. I.; Qaraei, M.; Repo, L.; Babbar, R.; Mäkelä, E.; Tolonen, M.; Ginter, F. (2022). "Explainable Publication Year Prediction of Eighteenth Century Texts with the BERT Model" (PDF). In Tahmasebi, N.; Montariol, S.; Kutuzov, A.; Hengchen, S.; Dubossarsky, H.; Borin, L. (eds.). Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2022 (LChange 2022). The Association for Computational Linguistics. pp. 68–77. Retrieved 2024-02-10.