Pasi Fränti, Professor School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland Phone: +358 (0)13 251 7931 E-mail: first.last@uef.fi

Education

• Ph.D.: 24.11.1994 (Univ of Turku, Computer Science)
• M.Sc.: 7.11.1991 (Univ of Turku, Computer Science)

Work experience

• 1999-- Professor (tenured since 3/2000), Univ Eastern Finland
• 1996-99 Postdoc (3 years), Academy of Finland
• 1995-96 Associate professor (1 year), Univ Joensuu
• 1992-95 Research and Teaching assistant (3½ years), Univ Turku
• 1991 Software Engineer (5 months), Contant Oy, Turku
• 1985-90 Various summer jobs at construction site, newspaper print, delivery, electricity company, security guard

Publications

• 57 refereed journal papers
• 130 refereed conference papers
• 54 other scientific papers
List of publications

Supervised PhDs

• Evgeny Karpov (ECSE, 11)
• Rahim Saeidi (ECSE, 11)
• Ville Hautamäki (ECSE, 08)
• Alexey Podlasov (ECSE, 07)
• Haibin Huang (ECSE, 07)
• Alexander Akimov (ECSE, 06)
• Ismo Kärkkäinen (ECSE, 06)
• Tomi Kinnunen (ECSE, 05)
• Mantao Xu (ECSE, 05)
• Olli Virmajoki (ECSE, 04)
• Pavel Kopylov (ECSE, 04)
• Juha Kivijärvi (TUCS, 04)
• Alexander Kolesnikov (ECSE, 03)
• Evgeny Ageenko (ECSE, 00)
• Timo Kaukoranta (TUCS, 99)

Editorial and organizational duties

• Pattern Recognition Letters (associate editor, 08--)
• APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (tutorial chair, 10)
• Int. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (track chair, 08)
• Computer Science Days in Finland (chairman, 04)
• PC member: ICIG, ICSTCC, RACS, ICASSP, ICPR, ICNLP, FINSIG, SCIA, ECMS, ACM-SAC, DSWIS

Memberships

• IEEE Senior member (08--)
• IAPR member (00--)

Refereeing duties

• Applied Physics & Engineering
• Computer Journal
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• Electronics Letters
• Entropy
• ETRI Journal
• GeoInformatica
• IEE Proceedings Vision Image and Signal Processing
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• IEEE Systems Journal
• IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
• IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting
• IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology
• IEEE Trans. on Communications
• IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computing
• IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
• IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in BioMedicine
• IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks
• IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics
• IET Image Processing
• Image and Vision Computing
• Information Sciences
• Information Systems
• Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
• Int. Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJAI)
• Int. Journal of Computer Vision
• Int. Journal of Document Analysis & Recognition
• Int. Journal of Image and Graphics
• Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology
• Journal of Electronic Imaging
• Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE
• Neurocomputing
• Optical Engineering
• Pattern Analysis & Applications
• Pattern Recognition
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• Real Time Imaging
• Signal Processing
• Signal Processing: Image Communications
• Software Practice & Experience
• The Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering B: Engineering
• The Imaging Science Journal

PhD thesis examination

• Jukka-Pekka Kauppi (Tampere Univ Tech, 11)(*)
• Jari Kyngäs (Univ Turku, 11)
• Tuomo Saarni (Univ Turku, 09)
• Andrea Hategan (Tampere Univ Tech, 09)(*)
• Beatrice Bilcu (Tampere Univ Tech, 08)(*)
• Sandipan Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur, India, 08)
• Niina Päivinen (Univ Kuopio, 07)(*)
• Jarkko Venna (Helsinki Univ Tech, 07)
• Matti Kutila (Tampere Univ Tech, 06)(*)
• Mohammed Ameer Ali (Monash Univ, Australia, 06)
• Jarno Mielikäinen (Lappeenranta Univ Tech, 03)
• Adriana Vasilache (Tampere Univ Tech, 03)(*)
• Andrew Penrose (Univ Cambridge, UK, 00)(*)
• Arto Kaarna (Lappeenranta Univ Tech, 00)
(*) Serving as Opponent

Administrative duties

• ECSE doctoral program, Head: 10--
• ECSE Vice head: 04-09
• ECSE Board member: 03--
• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, Joensuu, 01-06
• Member of the council, Faculty of Science, Joensuu, 01-06, 07-09
• Member of Student scholarship board, 02-04
• Responsible of the CS MSc program in Joensuu, 99-09
• Study advisor, CS dept, Univ of Turku, 92-95

Visits abroad

• Visiting professor at Fudan Univ, Shanghai, China (07-08, 2 months)
• Visiting scientist, InfoComm Research, Singapore (5x1 week, 05, 06, 07, 09, 11)
• Shorter (1-7 days) research visits to: McMaster (Canada), MIT-LL (Boston), JiaoTong (Shanghai), DianJi (Shanghai), NTU (Singapore), Univ South Bretagne (France), SPb state univ (St.Petersburg), NTU (Singapore), Hong Kong Polytech (China), HUT (Hanoi), Toyoyashi (Japan), BUT (Brno), Univ of Melbourne (Australia) and few others
• Faculty member at STMIK Rahardja, Jakarta, Indonesia

Current PhD students

• Full time: Qinpei Zhao, Minjie Chen, Mikko Malinen, Andrei Tabarcea, Karol Waga
• Part time: Caiming Zhong (Ningbo, Shanghai), Juhani Saastamoinen
• Remote: Zijian Zhu (Singapore), Pan Liangliang (DianJi, Shanghai)

Major research projects

• Mobile location-based applications and internet (MOPSI, 08-11)
• Search of personal media content (SEPEMCO, 05-06)
• New methods and applications of speech technology (PUMS, 03-07)
• Dynamic use of maps in mobile environment (DYNAMAP, 01-02)
• Real-time cartography imaging (REALMAP, 00)

Other skills

• Computer skills: Windows, DOS, Unix.
• Programming skill: Assembler, C, Cobol, Forth and Pascal (=outdated).
• Very strong design skills (best at the university).
• Languages: Finnish (native), English (excellent), Swedish (good), Germany and Russian (beginner), Chinese (Ni hao!).
• Personality: analytical, creative, goal-oriented, determined (=stubborn), good sense of humor (ha!).
• Always keep promises and complete the projects started.

Interests and hobbies

• Running (800m=2:15, 10k=38:28, ½-mar=1:23:33, marathon=2:54:57), chess (pelo=1856), running chess, football, floorball, orienteering, marathons, ice swimming, F1 (driving in dreams) and other sports.