KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Merging the Digital and Physical Worlds

Prof. Henry Tirri
Research Fellow, Nokia and University of Helsinki, Finland
Nokia Research Center, Finland

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Dr. Henry Tirri is a Research Fellow and Head of System Research Centers (SRC), Nokia Research Center, Nokia's corporate research unit. Henry is responsible for the research at the Systems Research Centers that strive for disruptive systems research with open innovation collaboration globally. Henry joined Nokia in 2004 as Research Fellow at the Software and Applications Laboratory. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and an Adjunct Professor of Computational Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology. His interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, information theory, search technologies and wireless sensor networks.
Henry has extensive experience in running both research activities in the fields of intelligent systems and networking. In the past, Henry has held various positions of Research Scientist at MCC, MTS at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Visiting Associate Professor at Purdue University, Visiting Sicentist at NASA AMES, Visiting Professor at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, and Vice President of Scientific Operations and Co-Founder of Ekahau. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Helsinki, Finland. Henry is the author and co-author of more than 170 academic papers in various fields of Computer Science, Social Sciences, and Statistics. He has five patents.

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