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Visa Koivunen (IEEE Fellow, EURASIP Fellow) received the D.Sc. (Tech.) degree with honors from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He received the primus doctor (best graduate) award among the doctoral graduates in years 1989-1994. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu. From 1992 to 1995 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Since 1999 he has been a full Professor of Signal Processing at Aalto University (formerly known as Helsinki Univ of Technology), Finland. He received the Academy professor position n 2010. He has been Aalto Distinguished Professor since 2020. He was one of the Principal Investigators in SMARAD Center of Excellence in Research nominated by the Academy of Finland. Years 2003-2006 he has been also adjunct full professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. During his sabbatical term year 2007 he was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, NJ, USA. He has also been a part-time Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research Center (2006-2012). He has been part time visiting fellow at Princeton University since 2010 and spent mini-sabbaticals there each year and a full sabbatical in 2013-2014. He was visiting professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland in 2022-2023.
Dr. Koivunen's research interest include statistical signal processing, wireless communications, multisensor systems, radars, Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), EW and machine learning for radio frequencies. He has published over 490 papers in international scientific conferences and journals. He co-authored the papers receiving the best paper award in IEEE PIMRC 2005, EUSIPCO'2006, EUCAP 2006 and COCORA 2012, and 2019 Asilomar connferences. He was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society best paper award for the year 2007 (with J. Eriksson) and 2017 (w Zoubir, Muma and Chakhchouk). He has advised 31 doctoral theses. He served as an associate editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Letters and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He has been a member of the IEEE SPS technical committees SPCOM-TC and SAM-TC. He was the general chair of the IEEE SPAWC conference 2007 conference and the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE SPAWC 2015. He was the general chair of 2018 Asilomar conference. He has served in the IEEE Fourier Award, Kilby Medal and Fellow Evaluation committees (SPS and AESS), IEEE Radar Systems Panel, and SPS Awards Board. He is also co-chairing two NATO Radar panels with a focus on cognitive radars and ISAC. He is the recipient of the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2015 for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing and its applications in wireless communications, radar and related fields. He was elevated to EURASIP Fellow in 2020. He has given more that 50 invited talks in world class research universities and institutes. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe).
His publication profile and h-index (GS) can be found from:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Yu9GLm0AAAAJ
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Doctoral degree, Engineering and Technology, University of Oulu
Award Date: 24 Jan 1994
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
Koivunen, V. (Principal investigator) & Rajamäki, R. (Project Member)
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2026
Project: EU: Framework programmes funding
Koivunen, V. (Principal investigator), Rajamäki, R. (Project Member), Halme, T. (Project Member), Haapalinna, K. (Project Member) & Iivanainen, A. (Project Member)
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2026
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Koivunen, V. (Principal investigator), Hentilä, H. (Project Member), Rajamäki, R. (Project Member) & Haapalinna, K. (Project Member)
01/04/2023 → 31/03/2026
Project: Business Finland: Other research funding
Abrudan, T. E. (Contributor), Eriksson, J. (Creator) & Koivunen, V. (Creator), Code Ocean, 1 Jan 2017
DOI: 10.24433/co.254cec60-1ce0-4f43-a964-1a1de2431b05, https://codeocean.com/2017/07/14/matlab-codes-for-optimization-under-unitary-matrix-constraint
Dataset: Software or code
Koivunen, Visa (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Koivunen, Visa (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Koivunen, Visa (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Koivunen, Visa (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Koivunen, Visa (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Visa Koivunen (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Chair of a conference, workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event
Visa Koivunen (Member)
Activity: Memberships (typically long-term positions of trust) › Position of trust in a society or network
Visa Koivunen (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Academic keynote or plenary lecture
Visa Koivunen (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Visa Koivunen (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organization of a workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event