COGNAC, IMT-A EVALUATION, PANU, WINNER+
Matti Latva-aho (SM’06) was born in Kuivaniemi, Finland in 1968. He received the M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr. Tech (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996 and 1998, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland. During the years 1994 - 1998 he was a Research Scientist at Telecommunication Laboratory and Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu. Currently he is Professor of Digital Transmission Techniques at the University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho was Director of Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu during the years 1998-2006. His research interests include future broadband wireless communication systems and related transceiver algorithms. Prof. Latva-aho has published more than 150 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications. He has been TPC Chairman for PIMRC’06, TPC Co-Chairman for ChinaCom’07, General Chairman for WPMC’08 and TPC Co-Chairman for WPMC’09. He acted as the Chairman and vice-chairman of IEEE Communications Finland Chapter in 2000 - 2003. Prof. Latva-aho has received the following awards: the best doctoral thesis prize of technical sciences in Finland in 1998, Electrical Engineering Foundation (EIS) Award for the development of CDMA Techniques in Finland in 2000 and the best paper of the year in the area of wireless communications (Mountbatten Premium) award from the Institute for Electrical Engineering (IEE) in 2003.
CROSSNET
Ari Pouttu was born in Kokkola, Finland in 1966. He received his M.Sc. (E.E.) and Lic. Tech. degrees from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in fields such as synchronization, interference suppression, coding, and modulation designs in spread spectrum and multicarrier systems. The projects under his command have resulted waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device network, future wireless radio communication including cognitive networks and navigation applications. He has also been involved with architecture design for Finnish Software Radio including adaptive antennas and related algorithms.
He has published more than 40 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications and he holds two patents. Currently he is the Director of Centre for Wireless Communications in the University of Oulu, Finland.
COGNAC
Timo Bräysy received his M. Sc. degree in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree in 2000, both in physics from the University of Oulu, Finland. He has a wide experience in scientific research in space physics and has worked in satellite instrument and software development projects. From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a research scientist in the wireless communications group in VTT Electronics, Finland. Currently he is a researcher and project manager in Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu. At CWC he currently manages both national and international projects on dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio networks. His current research interests include multiple access and networking protocols as well as topology control in cognitive and autonomous wireless networks with special emphasis on constraints set by security and defense application areas.
PANU
Pekka Pirinen received Master of Science, Licentiate of Science in Technology, and Doctor of Science in Technology degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 1995, 1998, and 2006, respectively. Since 1994 he has been with the Telecommunication Laboratory and since 1995 with Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, working in various European and national wireless techniques related research projects. Currently he is the Project Manager of Packet Access Networks with Flexible Spectrum Use (PANU) project. His research interests cover multi-access protocols, capacity evaluation, resource sharing, ultra wideband systems and wireless networks in general.
MITSE
Visa Tapio received M.Sc. and Lic.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 1995 and 2004, respectively. He has been working at the Telecommunications laboratory and Center for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu since 1994 as a researcher and project manager in several projects. His research interests are in the implementation of wireless systems, with emphasis on the design of wideband transceivers.
MITSE
Markku Juntti received M.Sc. (Tech.) and Dr.Sc. (Tech.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He has hold various research positions in University of Oulu, and been also a Visiting Scholar at Rice University, Houston, Texas in 1994-95, and with Nokia Networks in 1999-2000. He has been a Professor of Telecommunications at University of Oulu since 2000. His research interests include signal processing for wireless networks as well as communication and information theory. Dr. Juntti is a Senior Member of IEEE.
WINNER+
Antti Tölli received his M.Sc. and D.Sc (Tech) degrees in electrical engineering both from the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in 2000 and 2008, respectively. From 1998 to 2003 he worked for Nokia Networks, IP Mobility Networks division as Research Engineer and Project Manager both in Finland and Spain. In 2003 he joined the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at University of Oulu, Finland where he is currently managing CWC’s research activities in WINNER+ project. His main research interests are in radio resource management for broadband wireless communications with special emphasis on resource allocation for multiuser MIMO-OFDM cellular systems.
CROSSNET
Marek Skowron was born in Gliwice, Poland in 1983. He received his M. Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications in 2008 from Silesian University of Technology, Poland. He has joined Centre for Wireless Communications at University of Oulu in 2007, to work first as a master’s thesis student and later as research scientist and project manager. His technical interests are future wireless broadband cellular systems including LTE and LTE-Advanced.
IMT-A EVALUATION
Jouko Leinonen received his M.Sc. and Dr.Sc (Tech.) degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in 2002 and 2009, respectively. In 2000 he joined the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at University of Oulu, Finland. Currently he is managing research work in IMT-A Evaluations project. His research interests are in resource management for wireless systems with emphasis on resource allocation in multiuser OFDMA networks.
