Jussi Parkkinen
is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Eastern Finland, 
Finland. Since September 2011 he is on three years leave-of-absence for being 
professor and Head of Discipline of Electrical and Computer Systems 
Engineering at the Monash University Sunway Campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He specializes in spectral color image analysis and pattern recognition. 
He received his M.Sc. in medical physics in 1982 and his Ph.D. in 
mathematics in 1989, from the University of Kuopio, Finland. In 1989-1990 
he was a visiting researcher at The University of Iowa, IA, USA, in 1990 
a visiting professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 
1991-1992 professor and the Head of Department of Computer Science in the 
University of Kuopio, Finland, and in 1992-1998 professor of Information 
Processing and in 1995-1998 Dean of the Department of Information 
Technology at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Since 
1999 he has been a professor of Computer Science, in 1999-2005 the Head 
of Department of Computer Science, in 2006-2007 the Dean of Faculty of 
Science, and in 2007-2009 the vice rector (research) at the University of 
Joensuu, Finland. Since 2007 a visiting professor at the Chiba 
University, Japan. In 1995-1999 he was the chairman of the Finnish 
Pattern Recognition Society and he is a fellow of the International 
Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He was the chairman of the CIE 
TC8-07 technical committee on Multispectral Imaging in 2004-2008.