Visa Koivunen#
| Membership Number: | 6501 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.aalto.fi/en/people/visa-koivunen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1454-5928 |
Present and Previous Positions
- August 2020 - present Distinguished Professor, Aalto University, Finland
- July 2022 - August 2023 Visiting Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- July 2013 - July 2014 Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- January 2010 - December 2014) Academy Professor (selected by the Academy of Finland providing salary and research grant for a 5 year term), Aalto University, Finland
- January 2010 - present Full professor, Aalto University, Finland
- 2006 - 2012 Nokia Visiting Fellow, part-time appointment
- December 2006 - August 2007 Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 2003 - 2006 Adjunct Full Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- September 1999 - January 2010 Full Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- August 1997 - September 1999 Associate professor, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- 12/1991 - 8/1995 Post-doctoral fellow and research associate: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Fields of Scholarship
- Wireless communications
- Machine learning for radio frequencies, wireless communications and radars
- Multisensor systems for extracting information from physical world
- Statistical signal processing
- Multivariate statistics, robust statistics, statistical inference and learning
- Radar signal processing
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- 2010 Member of the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences
- 2012 Mannerheim Research Foundation Award for research excellence in signal intelligence and radars
- 2015 EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) Technical Achievement Award “for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing and its applications in wireless communications, radar and related fields”
- 2015 - 2016 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 2016 Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing)
- 2022 Nokia Visiting Professor Award
