CURRICULUM VITAE             31.10.2005

Personal details

Jussi Paavo Samuli Parkkinen
Born December 28, 1953, Mikkeli, Finland. Married, two children.

Studies

High School graduation                    Karhulan yhteiskoulu    1972

Batchelor of Science                      University of Kuopio    1979

Master of Science (physics)               University of Kuopio    1982

Licentiate of Philosophy (mathematics)    University of Kuopio    1986

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. mathematics)  University of Kuopio    1989

 

docent (applied physics)                  University of Kuopio    1991-

docent (computational engineering)        Helsinki U of Tech      1998-

docent (information technology)           Lappeenranta U of Tech  1999-

 

Professional career

 

physicist                             Central Hospital of Kotka    1980

lecturer in mathematics               University of Kuopio         1981

assistant in physics                  University of Kuopio         1981-1982

research assistant (mathematics)      University of Kuopio         1983,84-85

lecturer in mathematics               University of Kuopio         1983-1984

research assistant                    Academy of Finland           1985

research assistant (computer science) University of Kuopio         1986

associate professor in computer sci   Lappeenranta U of Technology 1986

research assistant                    Academy of Finland           1987-1989

visiting research scientist           The University of Iowa, USA  1989-1990

visiting professor                    U of Saskachewan, Canada     1990

research scientist                    University of Kuopio         1991

professor in computer science         University of Kuopio         1991-1992

associate professor in computer sci   Lappeenranta U of Technology 1992-1993

professor in information technology   Lappeenranta U of Technology 1993-1998

senior scientist                      Academy of Finland           1996-1997

professor in computer science         University of Joensuu        1999-

visiting professor                    Chiba University, Japan      2007-

 

Fee paid teacher in different universities in Finland,

lectures over 1000 hours

Lecturer in the International Summer School on Novel Computing 1996, Finland

Lecturer in the Intensive Program for Computer Vision 1996, Germany,

1998, Spain, and 2000, Finland, 2004, St Etienne, France

Lecturer of intensive course in Color Image Analysis, Graduate School of

Modern Optics and Photonics, 2000, Finland

 

Administrative experience

 

University of Kuopio:
Departmental council of Department of Mathematics, Physics and

Chemistry:

                                member  1977-1982            

                                vicemember  1983-1986
Faculty council of Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences:

                                member  1987-1988, 1991-1992
Head of Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics 1991-1992

Lappeenranta University of Technology,
Governing board:                vice member  1993-1994

                                member       1995-1998

Teaching and research council:  member       1993-1994

Department of Information Technology: 

                                vice dean    1993-1994

                                dean         1995-1998

Laboratory of Information Processing:

                                head of lab  1993-1998

University of Joensuu,  
Council of the Faculty of Sciences:

                                member       1999-2001

Head of the Department of Computer Science   1999-2006

Dean of Faculty of Science                   2006-2007

Vice Rector of the University of Joensuu     2007-

 

Head of the East Finland Universities Graduate School in Computer

Science and Engineering (ECSE) 1995 - 1998, 2001-2002

Chairman of the best PhD-award committee of the Nordic Countries

Pattern Recognition Societies  1997 – 2001, committee member 2002-2006

 

Reviewer, superviser and other official duties

A number of reviews for professorship, associate professorships, and docentships for Finnish universities.

Invited statements for a faculty position in:

      University of California, Riverside USA   

      The University of Iowa, USA

      University of Alberta, Canada      

      University of Wales, UK       

      The University of Auckland, NZ
PhD-thesis opponent or PhD review committee member:

      Chiba University, Japan

      Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Sweden

      Tampere, Helsinki, and Lappeenranta University of Technology

      University of Oulu, Tampere, and Helsinki
Official reviewer for PhD-thesis: 

      A number of Finnish universities and MRIT, Australia

Superviser/cosuperviser of PhD-theses:

      Lappeenranta University of Technology (6),

      University of Joensuu (5)

      University of Kuopio (1)
Superviser of a number of Lic Phil and Master's these in:

      Lappeenranta University of Technology

      University of Joensuu

      University of Kuopio

Reviewer of grant applications for:

      Academy of Finland

      Canada Foundation for Innovation

      Israel Science Foundation

      Czech Science Foundation

      Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Autria
Editorial board member:

      Pattern Analysis and Applications 1998 – 2003

      Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis 2005 -

Reviewer for the scientific journals and conferences:

Computing Surveys; Neural Networks; Pattern Analysis and Applications;

The Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision; IEEE transactions

on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; IEEE transactions of Pattern Analysis

and Machine Intelligence; Optical Engineering; Pattern Recognition

Letters; IEEE transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement;

Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems; a number

of international scientific conferences

10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis:

                      chairman of program committee,

1st Russian-Scandinavian Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Image

Analysis:             general chair of the workshop

MCS'01                cochairman of the conference  

14th Scandinavian Conference of Image Analysis

                      general chair
Program committee member in a number of international conferences

A number of plenary and invited lectures in international conferences

 

Member in scientific societies

Finnish Pattern Recognition Society:

       secretary 1984-1988, chairman 1995-1999;

Governing board member of the International Association for

Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

IAPR fellow.

Chairman of the CIE technical committee for Multispectral Imaging 2004 -