CURRICULUM VITAE

28.1.2002

Personal data

Name	Markku K. Renfors
Date and place of birth	January 21, 1953 in Suoniemi, Finland
Home address	Penttilänkatu 24, FIN-33820 Tampere, Finland
Office address	Tampere University of Technology Institute of Communications Engineering P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
Telephone	+358 3 3115 3937 (off.) +358 3 3115 3808 (fax) +358 3 3562 852 (home)
Internet	markku.renfors@tut.fi or mr@cs.tut.fi

Education

Tampere University of Technology

Diploma engineer (1978), Licentiate of Technology (1981), and Doctor of Technology (1982) in Electrical Engineering

Dissertation: On the Design of Efficient Digital Filters Using Graph Theoretic Equivalence Transformations

 Professional Experience

1992- present

Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Professor, Head of the Institute of Communications Engineering

• Digital signal processing in receiver front-end
• Digital transmission techniques with emphasis on multicarrier systems

1997-1998 One year leave from the professor position with the senior research grant of the Academy of Finland

1988-1991 Nokia Research Center and Nokia Consumer Electronics, Tampere, Finland

Project Manager and Design Manager

• Video signal processing, HDTV

1982-1988 Tampere University of Technology, Tampere Finland

Various research and teaching positions

• Digital signal processing, Structures and implementation of digital filters
• Speech coder architecture

1982-1984 Linkoping University, Sweden

Visiting Researcher

• Structures and implementation of digital filters
• VLSI design

1979-1982 Tampere University of Technology, Tampere Finland

Research and teaching assistant

• Structures and implementation of digital filters

Military service

1978-1979

Professional Activities

Leader of the following projects funded by the Academy of Finland

• Advanced Multicarrier Techniques for Wireless Communications, 2002-2004, about 3 person years
• Advanced Transceiver Architectures and Implementations for Wireless Communication, 2001-2002, about 8 person years
• Analog and Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Highly Integrated Transceivers, 1997-2000, about 20 person years
• Signal Processing for All-Digital Receivers, 1994-1996, about 4 person years

Leader of the following projects funded by the National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes) and industry

• Digital and Analog Techniques for Flexible Radio, 1998-2001, about 40 + 8 person years (TUT&HUT)
• Fast DSL Technologies for Broadband Transmission, 1998-2001, about 9 + 9 person years (TUT&HUT)
• FASTER, 1993-1995, about 15 person years

Leader of the project RTT DTVi funded by Tekes and RTT Oy, 1993-2001, about 35 person years

Partner manager at Tampere University of Technology in Race II project R2008 EuroBridge (1995-96).

Participated in EUREKA95 project to develop European standard for HDTV (88-91).

Visiting Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1985&1986 (3+3 months)

Senior Member in IEEE.

Vice Chair (Tutorials) for International Communications Conference, ICC2001, Helsinki, Finland.

Secretary of the 1988 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS'88, Espoo, Finland.

Reviewer for

• IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
• IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
• IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
• IEEE Trans. on Communications
• Electronics Letters
• Signal Processing

Awards

• IEEE CAS Society: 1987 Guillemin-Cauer Award (together with Tapio Saramäki)

Supervisor for the following theses for the Degree of doctor of Technology

• Mika Grundström: Communication System Design for High Capacity and High Quality Video. TUT, Jan. 1997.
• Zhang Hang: All-Digital Synchronization Techniques and Detection of TFM Signals in the Presence of DC Offsets. TUT, Dec. 1999.
• Mikko Valkama: Advanced I/Q Signal Processing for Wideband Receivers: Models and Algorithms. TUT, Nov. 2001

Supervisor/examiner for 7 Licentiate of Technology theses and about 100 M.Sc. theses.

 Publications

• 14 papes in Journals and about 100 papers in international conferences with review practice.