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Tutorial Presenters
Prof. Markku JunttiUniversity of Oulu, Telecommunication Laboratory & Centre for Wireless Communications
Markku Juntti was born in Kemi, Finland, in 1969. He received his M.Sc. (Tech.) and Dr.Sc. (Tech.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in 1993 and 1997, respectively.
Dr. Juntti has been a Research Scientist and Research Project Manager at Telecommunication Laboratory and Centre for Wireless Communications,
University of Oulu in 1992–97. In academic year 1994–95 he was a Visiting Research Scientist at Rice University, Houston, Texas.
In 1998 he was an Acting Professor at the University of Oulu. In 1999–2000 he was with Nokia Networks, Radio Access Systems in Oulu as a
Senior Specialist. Dr. Juntti has been a Professor of Telecommunications at University of Oulu since 2000. Dr. Juntti consults the
telecommunication industry, e.g., by training its personnel. Dr. Juntti's research interests include communication and information theory,
signal processing for wireless communication systems as well as their application in wireless communication system design. He is an author
in book WCDMA for UMTS published by Wiley.
Dr. Juntti is a senior member of IEEE, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was Secretary of IEEE
Communication Society Finland Chapter in 1996–97 and the Chairman for years 2000–01. He has been Secretary of the Technical Program
Committee of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'01), and is the Co–Chair of the Technical Program Committee
of 2004 Nordic Radio Symposium.
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Dr. Ian OppermannUniversity of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications
Ian Oppermann completed a BSc, BE and PhD at the University of Sydney Australia in 1990, 1992 and 1997 respectively. His PhD was related
to physical layer aspects of novel spread spectrum/CDMA systems. In 1996 he founded SP Communications, a company which developed network
planning tools for 3G mobile systems and IP cores for WLAN chipsets. Ian became an Adjunct professor at the University of Oulu, Finland in 2001
and subsequently joined the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) in 2002 as Assistant Director, becoming Director in 2003.
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Dr. Carlos Pomalaza-RáezUniversity of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications
Dr. Carlos Pomalaza-Ráez is an electrical engineering professor at Indiana University-Purdue University, USA. He received a BSME and a BSEE degree
from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú, in 1974, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1977 and 1980, respectively.
He has been a faculty member of the University of Limerick, Ireland, and of Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He has also been a
member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology where he was involved in the
design of the advanced receiver for the deep space program.
Currently, under the auspices of a Nokia-Fulbright Scholar Award, he is a visiting professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of
Oulu, Finland. His research interests are wireless communications networks, computer engineering, and signal processing.
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Dr. Juha YlitaloUniversity of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications
Juha Ylitalo received his M.Sc, Lic.Tech, and Dr. Tech degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in
1981, 1985 and 1987, respectively. He has held various research positions at the University of Oulu and the Academy of Finland. He was a
visiting scientist at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA in 1984-85, at Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany in 1991-92, and at the University
of Trondheim, Norway in 1994-95. He joined Nokia in 1995. He is now leading the 4G Lab of the Centre for Wireless Communications at the
University of Oulu. He is also working part-time at Elektrobit Ltd. His research interests include digital synthetic aperture radar techniques,
beamforming and diversity shemes, multi-dimensional radio channel modeling, and multi-antenna transmitter/receiver algorithms for 2G/3G and future
mobile communication systems. In recent years he has been involved in performance evaluation of MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) techniques
for UMTS within EC research projects Metra and I-Metra. Dr. Ylitalo is an author or co-author of more than 70 scientific articles or conference
publications and he has several patents. He is also co-author in two recent books on UMTS.
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