Helsinki University of Technology    

Visa Koivunen, Prof. (D.Sc. (EE))



Professor of Signal Processing,
Signal Processing Laboratory,
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland


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Short bio


Principal Investigator in SMARAD (Smart and Novel Radios Research Unit) Center of Excellence in Research nominated by Academy of Finland, 2001-2007 and 2008-2013

Editor, EURASIP Signal Processing journal


IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC), member


Statistical Signal Processing Research Group


Adjunct Professor,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
UPenn was ranked 15th in the worldwide university ranking made by Shanghai Jiao Tong University


My research interests include:

Statistical signal processing: estimation and detection.
Communications signal processing
Multiantenna systems in wireless comms and radar
Smart Antennas, MIMO Systems, Multicarrier systems
Array signal processing, multivariate statistics, Blind methods.
Non-cooperative signal processing, defence applications.

Currently, the research topics are:

Cognitive radios, Spectrum Sensing, Dynamic Spectrum Allocation

Multiuser MIMO, MIMO Radar, Waveform Diversity

navigation and localization systems

DoA estimation, Sensor arrays, space-time processing

MIMO propagation and channel modeling

Transceivers for high data-rate wireless comms systems

Estimation and optimization Theory for multivariate signals


Teaching at HUT: 2007-2008:

Random Processes for Communications (Fall semester, in finnish)
Statistical Signal Processing S-88.4200 (Spring semester, in english)
Submarine data for Statistical Signal Processing course assignment

Some recent publications (outdated, sorry)


I have been working at:
Princeton University
Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology.
Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology.
Signal Processing Research Lab (SPRL) of Prof. Saleem A. Kassam, Dept. of EE, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
GRASP Lab, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Dept. of EE, Univ. of Oulu, Finland (alma mater).


Non-academic stuff:

Ready to chair a thesis defence. Sometimes even professors look decent:


My second job as a ski instructor , just in case! In my office and another office view