"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." -- Albert Einstein

I have been leading & running 20+ R&D projects (EU Horizon, Marie Curie, EIT, German DAAD, Tekes) in tight collaboration with industrial companies such as Nokia, Broadcom, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, Telia, Elisa, NEC and WithSecure. My latest research focus is on interconnected systems for future AI services, as reflected in CPI open topics.

I'm managing awarded EU grants (€5M+€5.5M) as Consortium Director and PI. Projects below manifest my research agenda and track records, wit my appreciation to supports from EU and national funding agents.

• Funding: EU Marie Curie Actions, €4M budget (scored 98/100 out of 1509 proposals)
• Duration: 2020 - 2025
• Role: Principal Investigator
• This project enables my group to investigate approximate edge intelligence for optimizing energy efficiency in large scale AI algorithmic processing for the vision of sustainable Edge AI.
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• Funding: Dutch 4TU.Energy and 4TU.NIRICT
• Duration: 2024 - 2025
• Role: Co-PI
• This 4TU project enables partners from diverse fields to tackle the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of ICT and energy for digital twins, leading to groundbreaking solutions that leverage the strengths of both domains.
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• Funding: EU Horizon, €5M budget (scored 14,5/15)
• Duration: 2021 - 2024
• Role: Coordinator & Scientific Director
• This Horizon project seeks to address the challenges of black-box AI and data management by covering data privacy, resilience engineering, and legal-ethical accountability that are in line with EU top agenda to achieve Trustworthy AI.
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• Funding: Convergence Healthy Start Fund
• Duration: 2023 - 2024
• Role: Co-PI
• This Convergence project explores just-in-time-adaptive mechanisms to prevent mental health problems in youth. The aim is to transform current digital tools for youth into evidence-based, safe, personalized strategies that empower them to improve their mental well-being.
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• Funding: Safety & Security Institute
• Duration: 2022 - 2023
• Role: Co-PI
• This project will advance the state-of-the-art in aviation safety by developing cyber-secure and data-protected decentralized solutions that can better support the deployment of Edge AI services for aircraft safety and maintenance. One major goal is to promote sustainability practices in aviation maintenance.

• Funding: TBM
• Duration: 2020 - 2023
• Role: Co-PI
• The Infrarium is a mobile cyber-physical reconfigurable experimental laboratory similar to an escape room, where players experience the urgency and emotional tension involved in managing the evolution of energy infrastructures during energy transition. We aim to bring awareness of the complexity and interdependencies of energy transition, to create the experience of urgency, to support decision making under stressful situations, and to investigate how novel IoT visible light ensures data communication and interaction between simulation and users, sensors, actuators and dials.
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• Funding: European Regional Development Fund and MRDH
• Duration: 2019 - 2023
• Role: Edge Computing for IoT
• Partners: TNO, SURF, Delft, The Hague, Rotterdam
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• Funding: Safety & Security Institute
• Duration: 2020 - 2021
• Role: Principal Investigator
• This project focuses on building iSafe, a living lab to jointly investigate IoT safety and security, especially the hardware-software vulnerabilities of IoT. Through iSafe, we will test numerous IoT hw-sw suits and security solutions, conduct data collection, measurements, data learning (ML based), and qualitative studies in live testbed to evaluate the effects.

• Funding: Safety & Security Institute
• Duration: 2020 - 2021
• Role: Co-PI
• This project will systematically analyze the visible light communication (VLC) security myths and facts, and exploit the natural characteristics of light to create insights, technology, and methodologies for securing VLC networks. Through SecureLight, we will carry out live and user-centric demonstration in the Infrarium container.

• Funding: EU Horizon 2020 cascading personal grant (selection rate 21/65)
• Duration: 2018 - 2020
• Role: Principal Investigator
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• Funding: EU Horizon 2020, €6,7M budget
• Duration: 2015 - 2018
• Role: work package on securing private cloud communications
• Partners: Cambridge, TUM, RWTH Aachen, T-Mobile, NEC, NetApp, F-Secure
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• Funding: Bavaria California Technology Center
• Duration: 2017 - 2018
• Role: Co-PI
• Partner: University of California Irvine
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• Funding: Global Incentive Fund, TU Munich
• Duration: 2017 - 2018
• Role: Co-PI
• Partner: Peking University
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• Funding: DAAD
• Duration: 2017 - 2018
• Role: Co-PI
• Partner: HKUST
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• Funding: EIT
• Duration: 2014 - 2017
• Role: Project Leader
• Partners: Cambridge, University of Helsinki, EIT
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• Funding: Tekes Flagship Program of €50M
• Duration: 2011 - 2016
• Role: work package on energy efficient communications
• Partners: Nokia, Ericsson, TeliaSonera, F-Secure
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• Funding: Tekes 5th Gear Program
• Duration: 2015 - 2016
• Role: work package on 5G large-scale testbed
• Partners: Nokia, Intel, Huawei, Ericsson, Elisa, Telia, F-Secure
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• Funding: DIMECC
• Duration: 2015 - 2016
• Role: work package on SDN/NFV security
• Partners: Nokia, Ericsson, Elisa, F-Secure
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• Funding: Tekes
• Duration: 2014 - 2016
• Role: Project Manager at University of Helsinki
• Partners: Nokia, F-Secure, SSH
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• Funding: Nokia
• Duration: 2014 - 2015
• Role: work package on service chaining for mobile cloud
• Partner: Nokia

• Funding: EIT
• Duration: 2013 - 2014
• Role: work package on WiFi offloading platform
• Partners: Deutsche Telekom, TU Berlin, TU Munich, INRIA
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• Funding: Deutsche Telekom
• Duration: 2011 - 2013
• Role: work package on mobile data offloading in metropolitan areas
• Partners: Deutsche Telekom, University of Maryland at College Park
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• Funding: TiViT
• Duration: 2009 - 2012
• Role: work package on congestion control for future Internet
• Partners: Nokia, Nokia Networks, Ericsson, TeliaSonera, F-Secure
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• Funding: Tekes
• Duration: 2010 - 2012
• Role: work package on advanced IP signaling for multi-interfaced mobile devices
• Partners: Nokia, Nokia Networks, TeliaSonera
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• Funding: Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Tekes)
• Duration: 2008 - 2010
• Role: work package on handover management and security in wireless IP access
• Partners: Nokia, Ericsson, TeliaSonera
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• Funding: Nokia
• Duration: 2007
• Nokia sub-contract research engineer on virtualization-based migration for VoIP services
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