Jari Nurmi is a professor of Computer Systems at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). He has held various research, education and management positions at TUT and in the industry since 1987. He got a PhD degree from TUT in 1994. His current research interests include System-on-Chip integration, on-chip communication, embedded and application-specific processor architectures, and circuit implementations of digital communication, positioning and DSP systems. He is leading a group of about 20 researchers and research associates at TUT
Dr. Nurmi is the general chairman of the annual International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC) and its predecessor SoC Seminar in Tampere since 1999, and a board member of SoC, ICL-GNSS, FPL, and NORCHIP conference series. He was/is also general chair of International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 2005 and International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS) 2011, general co-chair of IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) 2009 and Conference on Design and Architecture for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP) 2011, conference chair of NORCHIP 2010, TPC co-chair in NORCHIP 2005, European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME) 2006 and FPL 2010. He is also the local organization chair of ESWeek 2012. He was the head of the national TELESOC graduate school 2001-2005. He is the author or co-author of over 250 international papers, editor of Springer book "Processor Design: System-on-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs," co-editor of Kluwer book "Interconnect-centric Design for Advanced SoC and NoC", and has supervised more than 110 MSc theses, a few Licentiate theses and 13 Doctoral theses. He has been an opponent or reviewer for yet another 16 PhDs. He has reviewed projects and project proposals for The European Commission, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Saudi-Arabia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland. He is a senior member in IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Computer Society, Signal Processing Society, Solid-State Circuits Society and Communications Society. He was one of the recipients of Nokia Educational Award in 2004, and the recipient of Tampere Congress Award 2005, and co-recipient of IIDA Innovation Award in 2011. He has been awarded one of the Academy of Finland Senior Scientist research grants for the academic year 2007-2008. Dr. Nurmi is also a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society technical committee on VLSI Systems and Applications (CAS/VSA), and HiPEAC Network-of-Excellence.
Last update: 28.9.2011