SIPU research group

Current members:

Pasi Fränti, PhD, Professor
Tomi Kinnunen, PhD, Academy post-doctoral researcher (Speech technology)
Ville Hautamäki, PhD, Academy post-doctoral researcer (Speech technology)
Rajan Padmanabhan, PhD, Postdoctoral researcher (Voice biometrics)
Qinpei Zhao, PhD, Researcher (Clustering methods)
Minjie Chen, MSc, Researcher, doctoral student (Image denoising and segmentation)
Caiming Zhong, MSc, Visiting researcher, doctoral student (Clustering)
Mikko Malinen, MScEng, Researcher, doctoral student (Clustering)
Andrei Tabarcea, MSc, Project researcher (MOPSI), doctoral student (Location-based systems)
Karol Waga, MSc, Researcher, doctoral student (Recommendation systems)
Mohammad Rezaei, MSc, Project researcher (MOPSI), doctoral student (Clustering)
Sandhya Menon, MSc, Project Researcher (MOPSI) (Location-based applications)
Smita Mitkari, MSc, Project Researcher (MOPSI) (Location-based applications)
Zhizheng Wu, MSc, Visiting researcher (Speech processing)
Radu Mariescu-Istodor, BSc, Project researcher (MOPSI) (Location-based applications)
Matti Mononen, BSc, Project researcher (MOPSI) (Location-based applications)
Zhentian Wan, BSc, Trainee
Gaurav Mittal, Trainee
Joonas Virmajoki, Trainee

Collaborators and previous members:

Olli Nevalainen, PhD, Professor (Univ. of Turku)
Xiaolin Wu, PhD, Professor (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Susanto Rahardja, PhD, Program director (A*STAR, Singapore)
Haizhou Li, PhD, Department Head of Human Language Technology (Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Timo Kaukoranta, PhD (Univ. of Turku)
Juha Kivijärvi, PhD (Univ. of Turku)
Alexander Kolesnikov, PhD, Senior researcher
Olli Virmajoki, PhD, Lecturer (Kajaani Polytechnic)
Pavel Kopylov, PhD, Senior R&D engineer (DA Design, Forssa)
Mantao Xu, PhD, Professor (DianJi Univ, Shanghai)
Alexander Akimov, PhD, Senior software engineer (BC platforms, Helsinki)
Ismo Kärkkäinen, PhD, Software engineer (Joensuu)
Haibin Huang, PhD, Research fellow (Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Alexey Podlasov, PhD, Research fellow (National Univ. of Singapore)
Rahim Saeidi, PhD, Marie Curie postdoc (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen)
Evgeny Karpov, PhD, Software engineer (Tietoenator, Tampere)

Remote/inactive students:

Pan Liangliang, MSc, Researcher, doctoral student (Shanghai DianJi)
Zijian Zhu, MSc, Researcher, doctoral student (Inforcomm Research, Singapore)
Juhani Saastamoinen, PhLic, doctoral student, (Speaker recognition)
Marko Tuononen, MSc, Software engineer, doctoral student (Accenture)

Previous project workers, trainees and interns:

2010-11: Ilkka Vänskä, Lin Zhang, Jinhua Chen, Olga Ershova, Alexandra Mihailescu, Sadjad Siddiq, Petr Viktorin, Monika Machunik, Ding Liao, Kilian Vincent, Filip Sedlak, Cemal Hanilci
2008-09: Ilja Sidoroff, Ritesh Kolte, Juka Kuittinen, Pekka Nykänen, Antti Pöllänen, Lomanzi Sakala
2006-07: Victoria Yanulevskaya, Evgenia Chernenko, Rosa Gonzalez Hautamäki, Radu Timofte, Andrei Oprisan
2004-05: Ioan Cleju, Andrei Mihaila, Vibhor Jain, Olga Grebenskaya, Harsh Gupta
2002-03: Seppo Nevalainen, Teemu Hakolahti, Teemu Kilpeläinen
2000-01: Sami Gröhn, Florian Berger, Jussi Heino, Viktor Veis, Gurushyam Hariharan, Sandeep Mehta