Yrjö Neuvo Jubilee Seminar

Recorded video material is available at YouTube: video. 

Seminar booklet is available at: booklet. 

In Yrjö Neuvo’s career, theory and practice have been intertwined. He has been a lifelong evangelist of the digital revolution. He received his PhD degree from Cornell University in 1974 and had a 19 year academic career as a professor of signal processing at Tampere University of Technology, as a National Research Professor, and as visiting professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. As of today, his most cited paper: “Vector Median Filters” has received 1567 citations.

From 1993 - 2005, he was Chief Technology Officer and member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia, during the phenomenal growth of the mobile phone market. He has led significant national and EU-wide initiatives developing competences and R&D&I.

After retiring from Nokia, Yrjö had a pivotal role in the formation of Aalto University, as a member of the preparation committee established by the Finnish Government. As a Professor and Research Director at Aalto he has led Aalto-wide major research programs.

His own experience of working both in industry and academia triggered his interest to find ways to increase doctors’ employment in the industry. This resulted in starting the Bit Bang Courses and creation of the national PoDoCo program.

Detailed CV of Yrjö Neuvo is available via this link. 

Please join us in this special seminar covering various topics in digitalization, mobile phone development, multidisciplinary research programs, education, and national and international science policy. The program of the event is given below. The event was held partially in English (14.00-16.40) and partially in Finnish (16.40-17.30). The event was webcasted via Zoom.