Distinguished Professor
Aalto University
Visa Koivunen (IEEE Fellow, EURASIP Fellow) received his D.Sc. (EE) degree with honors from the Univ of Oulu, Dept. of Electrical Engineering. He received the primus doctor award among the doctoral graduates in years 1989-1994. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu. He was a visiting researcher at the Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 1991-1995. Since 1999 he has been a full Professor of Signal Processing at Aalto University (formerly HUT), Finland. He received the Academy professor position in 2010 and Aalto Distinguished professor in 2020. 2002-2013 he was one of the PIs in SMARAD CoE in Research nominated by the Academy of Finland. Years 2003-2006 he was also adjunct full professor at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA. During his sabbatical terms in 2006-2007 and 2013-2014 he was visiting faculty at Princeton University. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research (2006-2012). Since 2010 he has been part time visiting fellow and has spent mini-sabbaticals at Princeton University each year. On his sabbatical term in 2022-23, he was a visiting professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dr. Koivunen’s research interest include statistical signal processing, wireless comms, radar, multisensor systems, data science and machine learning. He has published more than 480 papers in international scientific conferences and journals and holds 5 patents. See publication profile at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Yu9GLm0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
He has advised 32 Ph.D works. He has co-authored multiple papers receiving the best paper award in IEEE and other conferences. He was awarded the IEEE SP Society best paper award for the year 2007 (with J. Eriksson) and 2017 (w Zoubir, Muma and Chakhchouk) . He has served in editorial board for The Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE SP Letters, IEEE TR on SP, and IEEE SP Magazine. He was awarded the 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. He has served in the IEEE Fourier Award, Kilby Medal and Fellow Evaluation committees, SPS Award Board and as IEEE SP Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2015-2016, NATO radar panels, Board of Governors for Asilomar conferences, and has given more than 50 invited talks in world leading research universities and institutes. He is a member of the Academy Europaea.