Curriculum Vitae of Pasi Fränti

Pasi Fränti, Professor
School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland
Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland
Office: +358 (0)50 442 2265
E-mail: first.last@uef.fi

Research interests

Clustering algorithms
Location-based services (LBS)
Machine learning
Data & web mining

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 (23 years), Univ Eastern Finland (tenured since 3/2000)
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

120 refereed journal papers
179 refereed conference papers
63 other scientific papers

List of publications

Supervised PhDs (32)

Chengmin Zhou (UEF, 23)
Himat Shah (UEF, 22)
Nilima Shah (UEF, 21)
Thomas C.T. Ho (UEF, 21)
Sami Sieranoja (UEF, 20)
Jiawei Yang (UEF, 20)
Lahari Sengupta (UEF, 19)
Radu Mariescu-Istodor (UEF, 17)
Najlah Gali (UEF, 17)
Mohammad Rezaei (UEF, 16)
Karol Waga (UEF, 15)
Andrei Tabarcea (UEF, 15)
Mikko Malinen (UEF, 15)
Caiming Zhong (UEF, 13)
Zijian Zhu (UEF, 13)
Minjie Chen (UEF, 12)
Qinpei Zhao (UEF, 12)
Evgeny Karpov (UEF, 11)
Rahim Saeidi (UEF, 11)
Ville Hautamäki (UEF, 08)
Alexey Podlasov (UEF, 07)
Haibin Huang (UEF, 07)
Alexander Akimov (UEF, 06)
Ismo Kärkkäinen (UEF, 06)
Tomi Kinnunen (UEF, 05)
Mantao Xu (UEF, 05)
Olli Virmajoki (UEF, 04)
Pavel Kopylov (UEF, 04)
Juha Kivijärvi (TUCS, 04)
Alexander Kolesnikov (UEF, 03)
Evgeny Ageenko (UEF, 00)
Timo Kaukoranta (TUCS, 99)

Editorial and organizational duties

AIMS Applied Computing and Intelligence (editor-in-chief, 21--)
Applied Sciences (editorial board member, 20--)
Machine Learning with Applications (associate editor, 20-23)
Journal of Electronic Imaging (associate editor, 16-21)
Entropy (guest editor, 21)
Frontiers in Robotics (guest editor, 20)
Remote Sensing (guest editor, 20)
Applied Sciences (guest editor, 18)
Algorithms (guest editor, 17)
S+SSPR workshops (chair, 14)
Speaker Odyssey (co-chair, 14)
IEICE Transactions (guest editor, 11)
Pattern Recognition Letters (associate editor, 08-12)
APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (tutorial chair, 10)
Int. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (track chair, 08)
Computer Science Days in Finland (chair, 04)
PC member: ACM-RACS, ACM-SAC, DSWIS, ECMS, FINSIG, ICASSP, ICBDSC, ICIG, ICNLP, ICPR, ICSTCC, InterSpeech, SCIA, SoICT, WebIST

Memberships

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

Refereeing duties (130)

Advanced Engineering Informatics
Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
Aerospace
AI & Society
AIMS Mathematics
Applied Intelligence
Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences
Applied Physics & Engineering
Applied Sciences
Applied Thermal Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Reviews
Behaviour and Information Technology
Biodata Mining
Biomimetics
BMC Bioinformatics
Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
Chemometrics & Intelligent Laboratory Systems
Chemosphere
Cogent Engineering
Color Research & Application
Communications in Statistics - case studies and data analysis
Computational Intelligence & Neuroscience
Computer Journal
Computer Systems Science and Engineering
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Connection Science
Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
Digital Signal Processing
Electronics
Electronics Letters
Entropy
ETRI Journal
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Evolving systems
Expert Systems with Applications
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Frontiers in Psychology
Future Generation Computer Systems
GeoInformatica
Graphical Models
IEE Proceedings Vision Image and Signal Processing
IEEE Access
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IEEE Systems Journal
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinf.
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting
IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Trans. on Communications
IEEE Trans. on Computational Social Systems
IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computing
IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics
IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in BioMedicine
IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Trans. on Multimedia
IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence
IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing
IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics
IET Image Processing
Image and Vision Computing
Information
Information Processing Letters
Information Sciences
Information Systems
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Int. Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Int. Journal of Computer Vision
Int. Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management
Int. Journal of Document Analysis & Recognition
Int. Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Int. Journal of Geographical Information Science
Int. Journal of Image and Graphics
Int. Journal of Neural Systems
Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence
Int. Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
iScience
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
Journal of Applied Mathematics
Journal of Big Data
Journal of Building Engineering
Journal of Classification
Journal of Computational Science
Journal of Computers
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Journal of Electronic Imaging
Journal of King Saud Univ. - Computer and Inf. Sciences
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE
Knowledge and Information Systems
Knowledge-Based Systems
Machine Learning
Mathematica
Mathematical and Computational Applications
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Nature: Machine Intelligence
Nature: Scientific Reports
Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA)
Neurocomputing
Optical Engineering
Pattern Analysis & Applications
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition Letters
PLOS Computational Biology
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
Processes
Real Time Imaging
Sensors
Signal, Image and Video Processing
Signal Processing
Signal Processing: Image Communications
SN: Computer Science
Software Practice & Experience
Software X
Speech Communication
Symmetry
The Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering B: Engineering
The Imaging Science Journal

PhD thesis examination (28)

Hazem Noori Abdulrazzak (Univ. Tenagi Nasional, Malaysia, 23)(*)
Povilas Gudzius (Univ. of Vilnius, 23)(*)
Qifan Gao (Shanghai Jiaotong, 23)
Tero Lähderanta (Univ. of Oulu, 22)
Aysylu Gabdulkhakova (TU Wien, Austria, 22)(*)
Marko Niemelä (Univ. of Jyväskylä 22)(*)
Faqihza Mukhlish (Univ of New South Wales, Australia, 21)
Joonas Hämäläinen (Univ. of Jyväskylä, 18)(*)
Syed Z.H. Kazmi (Univ of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan, 18)
Kalle Rutanen (Tampere Univ. of Tech, 16)(*)
Matteo Maggioni (Tampere Univ. of Tech, 15)(*)
Joonas Tuikkala (Univ. of Turku, 14)(*)
Aram Danielyan (Tampere Univ of Tech, 13)(*)
Florin Ghido (Tampere Univ of Tech, 12)
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)

(*) Opponent / part of committee

Administrative duties

SciTeCo doctoral program, board member 15-17
ECSE doctoral program, Head: 10-15
ECSE Vice head: 04-09
ECSE Board member: 03-10
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, Joensuu, 01-06
Member of the council, Faculty of Science, Joensuu, 01-09
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, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China 2024 (6 months)
Visiting scholar, Southern University of Science and Technology, China 2023 (3 months)
Visiting professor at Shenzhen Technology University, China 2019-20 (8 months)
Visiting professor at Fudan Univ, Shanghai, China 2007-08 (2 months)
Visiting scientist, InfoComm Research, Singapore 2005, 06, 07, 09, 11, 13 (1 week each)
Visiting teacher, Iasi Tech. Univ. 2010
Two days intensive course on Image processing theory, algorithms and applications (Vadodara, India, 2014)
Keynote for IEEE Int. Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP, Xi'an, China, 2022)
Plenary talk for Conf. on Data analysis methods for software systems (DAMSS, Druskininkai, Lithuania, 2022)
Plenary talk for Conf. on Data analysis methods for software systems (DAMSS, Druskininkai, Lithuania, 2021)
Keynote for ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, (Korea/Virtual, 2021)
Keynote for Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing, (Sinaia, Romania, 2014)
Keynote for Int. Conf. Information Technology (Changchun, China, 2011),
Faculty member at STMIK Rahardja, Jakarta, Indonesia
Short (1-7 days) research visits to: McMaster (Canada), MIT-LL (Boston), Univ. of Pittsburgh (USA), Univ. of Indiana (USA), Univ South Bretagne (France), Univ. Toulouse (France), Brno Tech. Univ. (Czech), St. Petersburg state univ (Russia), ITMO (Russia), Univ. Vilnius (Lithuania), Univ. Porto (Portugal), JiaoTong (Shanghai), TongJi (Shanghai), DianJi (Shanghai), NWPU (China), SZTU (China), SUSTech (China), Nanhua (China), Jilin Zuhai campus (China), Hong Kong Polytech (Hong Kong), CUHK (Hong Kong), NTU (Singapore), Toyoyashi (Japan), Hanoi Tech. Univ. (Vietnam), Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), RUPP (Phnom Penh), Mahidol (Bangkok), Vadodara (India), IIT Delhi (India), Univ. of Melbourne (Australia), and few others.

Current PhD students

Local: Nancy Fazal, Gulraiz I. Choudhary, Masoud Fatemi, Abigail Wiafe, Jimi Tuononen, Mehrdad Salimi
Remote: Biliaminu Jimoh, Sylwan Rahardja

Major research projects

Improving and optimizing social welfare and health care reform (IMPRO, 18-23)
Mobile personalized information systems (MOPIS, 12-14)
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, Linux.
Programming skill: Assembler, C, Cobol, Forth and Pascal.
Very strong design skills.
Languages: Finnish (native), English (excellent), Swedish (good), Germany and Russian (beginner), Chinese (Ni hao!).
Personality: analytical, creative, goal-oriented, determined, good sense of humor.
Always keep promises and complete the projects started.

Interests and hobbies

Running, chess, football, floorball, orienteering, marathons, ice swimming, F1 (driving in dreams), travelling.
Records: 800m=2:15, 10k=38:18, ½-mar=1:23:04, marathon=2:54:57, Pelo=1950.
Creator of running chess, football chess, swim chess and several other sport chess events.
Inventor of the name for Jippo football team.