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Speakers

		Mr. Tero Ojanperä
		Senior Vice President Nokia, Finland

 

Tero Ojanperä is Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center. Nokia Research Center, the corporate R&D unit of Nokia, serves the research and development work of Nokia's business groups. In the rapidly changing landscape of mobile communications, the role of the research center is to enhance Nokia's technological competitiveness and innovative edge. Operating in seven countries, the center employs 1200 people representing forty-nine different nationalities.

Tero Ojanperä received his M.Sc. degree from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1999.

He joined Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland, in 1990 and worked as a Research Engineer from 1991 to 1992. During 1992-95, he led a radio systems research group concentrating on wideband CDMA, GSM WLL, and US TDMA. In 1994-95, he was also a project manager of the wideband CDMA concept development within Nokia. Later, this concept formed the basis for the FRAMES wideband CDMA.

From 1995 to 1997, he was a Research Manager in Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, heading Nokia's third-generation air interface research program. He was actively involved in setting up the FRAMES project, and during 1995-1996 he was also the leader of the technical area air interface and the multiple access work package in the project that was responsible for the selection of the FRAMES Multiple Access (FMA) scheme. The FRAMES wideband CDMA was the basis for the UMTS WCDMA concept in ETSI. From 1994 to 1997, he was a Nokia representative for the UMTS radio interface issues in the ETSI SMG5 and SMG2 standardization committees.

From 1997 to 1998, he worked as a Principal Engineer at Nokia Research Center in Irving, Texas. He was involved in US third-generation standards activities for cdma2000. In addition, he was involved in technical/strategic work for Nokia's proposal for the TDMA/EDGE standard.

In 1998, he joined Nokia Networks, Finland, as the Head of Radio Access Systems Research. In 1999, he was promoted to Vice President, Radio Access Systems Research. In 1999, he was also assigned as General Manager of Nokia Networks, Korea. Prior to his current role as Head of Nokia Research Center, Tero Ojanperä worked as Vice President in charge of Research, Standardization and Technology of IP Mobility Networks at Nokia Networks.

He is the author of the book "WCDMA for Third Generation Mobile Communications" (Artech House, 1998) and its second edition "WCDMA: Towards IP Mobility and Mobile Internet" (Artech House, 2001). He has also authored several conference and journal papers as well as a chapter in three books: "Wireless Communications TDMA versus CDMA" (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), "GSM: Evolution towards 3rd Generation" (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998), and "The Mobile Communications Handbook, second edition" (CRC Press, 1999).

He is a member of the IEEE, and in 1996 he was the secretary of the IEEE Finland section. He was a member of the Technical Program Committee of the Vehicular Technology Conference 1999 and the vice chair for the International Communications Conference (ICC) 2001.

 

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