E-mail (VLSI Solution Oy): tap@vlsi.fi
BIOGRAPHY
tapio
Tapio
Saramäki
was born in Orivesi,
Finland,
on
June 12, 1953. He has received the Diploma Engineer (with honors) and
Doctor of
Technology (with honors) degrees in electrical engineering from the
Tampere
University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland, in 1978 and 1981,
respectively.
Since 1977, he has held
various research and teaching positions at TUT,
where he is currently a Professor of signal processing and a Docent of
telecommunications (a scientist having valuable knowledge for both the
research
and education at the corresponding laboratory). He is also a Cofounder
and a
System-Level Designer of VLSI Solution Oy, Tampere, Finland,
originally specializing in VLSI implementations of Sigma-Delta
modulators and
analog and digital signal processing algorithms for various
applications. He is
also the President of Aragit Oy Ltd., Tampere, Finland, which was
founded by
four TUT professors, specializing on various services for the industry,
including the application of information technology to numerous
applications.
In 1982, 1985, 1986, 1990, and 1998 he was a Visiting Research Fellow
(Professor) with the University
of California, Santa Barbara,
in 1987 with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and in
2001 with the National
University of Singapore. His research interests are in digital signal
processing, especially filter and filter bank design, VLSI
implementations, and
communications application, as well as approximation and optimization
theories. He has written 300 international journal and conference
articles, various international book chapters, and holds three
world-wide used
patents on the efficient implementations of FIR filters as VLSI
circuits and
one patent for designing and implementing over-sampled generalized DFT
filter
banks.
Dr.
Saramäki received
the 1987 Guillemin-Cauer
Award (together with M. Renfors) and the 2006
Guillemin-Cauer
Award (together with M. B. Furtado, P. S. R.
Diniz, and S. L. Netto) for the best paper of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
CIRCUITS
AND SYSTEMS published in 1987 and 2005, respectively, as well as two
other best
paper awards. He was elected in 2002 as the Fellow of IEEE for
“contributions
for the design and implementation of digital filters and filter banks”,
and in
2004 as the Fellow (Honorary Member) of the Russian A. S. Popov Society
for
Radio-Engineering, Electronics, and Communications (the highest
membership
grade in the society and the 80th Fellow since 1945) for “great
contributions
to the development of DSP theory and methods and great contributions to
the
consolidation of relationships between Russian and Finnish
organizations”. He
is also a founding member of the Median-Free Group International. He
was an
Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND
SYSTEMS-II:
ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING from 2000
to 2001, and is currently an Associate Editor of Circuits,
System, and Signal Processing (from 2003 to 2008). He was
also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
(from
2002 to 2003) and the Chairman of the IEEE Circuits and Systems DSP
Technical
Committee (from May 2002 to May 2004). Furthermore, he has been very
active in
taking part in various duties for organizing several international
conferences
and workshops including, among others, ISCAS, EUSIPCO, ECCTD, IASTED,
and ISPA,
as well as annual TICSP (Tampere International Center for Signal
Processing)
workshops concentrating on transforms, multi-rate filter banks,
spectral
methods, and multi-rate signal processing in general.
Teaching in spring 2007 (Third and fourth periods)
Teaching in spring 2006 (Fourth period)
Teaching in spring 2006 (Fourth period and fifth periods)
- SGN-9106 Signal Processing Graduate Seminar I. First meeting 14.2, TB224
- Some parts of Handbook for Digital Signal Processing, edited by S. K. Mitra
- and J. F. Kaiser, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1993, 1268 pages
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