Resume

Name : Jussi Tohka

Year of Birth : 1976

Education

PhD (with commendation) 1999 - 2003, Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

MSc 1996 - 1999, Mathematics, University of Turku, Finland

Career

Dec 2009 - Nov 2014 : Academy Research Fellow, the Academy of Finland

Jan 2009 - Nov 2009 : Senior researcher, STATCORE research cluster of excellence, University Alliance, Finland

2003 - 2004 and 2005 onwards: Senior Researcher, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

2004 - 2005: Post Doctroral Fellow, Laboratory of NeuroImaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA, USA

2000 - 2003: Graduate Student, Tampere Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Finland

1999 - 2003: Researcher, Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

1998: Research Assistant, Turku PET Centre, Finland

1997: Programmer, Maurer Electronics, Munich, Germany

Research interests

Image processing, image analysis and pattern recognition within brain imaging, particularly using energy minimization/PDE based techniques

Deformable models, Markov Random Fields, Clustering and classification algorithms based on optimization principles

Research visits abroad

June 2007: 1 month at Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada

Jan 2007 : 1 week in CERMEP, Lyon, France

Oct 2004 - Nov 2005 (13 months): Post-doc in Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, USA

Oct 2001 - May 2002 (7 months): Visiting researcher at McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada

National and International Collaborations

I have co-authored articles with researchers from ~ 10 different institutions worldwide including: Departments of Neurology, Physchology and Statistics of UCLA,USA; Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada; CERMEP, Lyon, France; Turku PET Centre, Finland; University of Patras, Greece; Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain; University of Tampere, Finland; University of Turku, Finland, and University of Helsinki, Finland.

Journal/Conference editor/reviewer/commitee member

Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine (2007 - 2010)

Advisory Editorial Board: The Open Medical Imaging Journal (since 2007)

Guest editor: Imaging the brain change across different time-scales, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2009

Reviewer for: 1) IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2) IEEE Transactions on Information Techology in Biomedicine, 3) Human Brain Mapping, 4) IEEE Transactions on BioMedical Engineering, 5) Computer Methods and Programs in BioMedicine, 6) Image and Vision Computing, 7) Image Analysis and Stereology, 8) IEE Electronics Letters 9) IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 10) Neuroimage 11) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 12) IEEE Signal Processing Letters 13) Digital Signal Processing 14) Intrernational Journal of Molecular Imaging 15) Pattern Recognition 16) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 17) Signal Image and Video Processing

Scientific commitee member: ISVC2009 Compuational bioimaging special track 2009

Reviewer for: 1) MICCAI (2005,2006,2007), 2) EUSIPCO (2006), 3) ISSPA (2005) 4) OHBM (2009,2010,2011).

Current students

Antonietta Pepe , PhD student 2008 - (co-supervised by Ulla Ruotsalainen)

Jukka-Pekka Kauppi , PhD student 2008 - (supervised by Ulla Ruotsalainen)

Juha Pajula, PhD student 2010 -

Former students

Lu Zhao , PhD 2006 - 2010 (co-supervised by Ulla Ruotsalainen) Lu's thesis

Evgeny Krestyannikov, PhD 2004 - 2008 (co-supervised by Ulla Ruotsalainen)

Anu Juslin, PhD (graduated 2007), principal supervisor was Ulla Ruotsalainen. Anu's thesis

Esa Wallius, PhD (graduated 2007), principal supervisor was Ulla Ruotsalainen. Esa's thesis

Supervisor of 7 MSc. theses between 2001 and 2010

Supervisor of Marie Curie exchange graduate-student Dimitris Glotsos, University of Patras, Greece, during his visit Sep 2003 - March 2004. PhD thesis of Dimitris included 2 joint journal publications with me.

Grants (as PI)

The Academy of Finland, 516850 EUR, 2009 - 2014 (the Academy research fellow post + research costs)

The Academy of Finland, 156000 EUR, 2005 - 2008 (post-doc project)

The Academy of Finland, 23600 EUR, 2004 - 2005 (post doc at UCLA)

Nokia Foundation, 4000 EUR, 2002 (encouragement grant)

Publications

Full publication list can be found here

21 refereed full length international journal articles (9 of these as the first author, 1 as sole author, and 3 as the senior author)

31 refereed international conference articles, 2 national conference articles, 28 international conference abstracts, 2 lecture notes

I also have authored severeal pieces of open-source software related to my research activaties

Teaching experience

I have lectured several graduate and under-graduate level courses on pattern recognition, data analysis and medical image processing. For details see here

Other

Chaired "Medical Image Processing"-sessions in FINSIG03 (Finnish signal processing symposium, Tampere, Finland, 2003) and NORSIG04 (Nordic signal processing symposium, Helsinki, Finland, 2004) symposiums.

Member of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping

Board member of Finnish Pattern Recognition Society