Markku Hauta-Kasari was born in 1970 in Sonkajarvi, Finland. He received 
his MSc in computer science from the University of Kuopio, Finland, in 
1994 and his PhD in information processing from the Lappeenranta University 
of Technology, Finland, in 1999. Since 1999 he has been working in research 
and teaching positions in computer science at the University of Joensuu, and 
since 2010 at the University of Eastern Finland. From 1996 to 1998 he was a 
visiting researcher at Professor Toyooka's Optical Sensing Laboratory, Saitama 
University, Japan. In 2002 he was 2 months as a visiting researcher at Professor 
Miyake's laboratory in Chiba University, Japan, and in 2007 one month as a visiting 
Professor at the National Museum of Japanese History, Japan. 
In 2003 - 2010, he was the Director of InFotonics Center Joensuu research center 
at the University of Joensuu. Currently, he is Professor in Computer Science at the 
University of Eastern Finland and the head of the Computational Spectral Imaging 
Research Group. He is a member of the Optical Society of Japan, and the Pattern Recognition 
Society of Finland. He is the committee member of the International Committee for 
Imaging Science, ICIS, representing Finland, since 2007. He is a past chairman of the 
Pattern Recognition Society of Finland (2003 - 2006) and past chairman 
of the CIE Technical Committee TC8-07 "Multispectral imaging" (2008 - 2011). In 2014-2021 
he was the Head of the School of Computing at the University of Eastern Finland. Since 2022,
he is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, Forestry, and Technology.