Pertti Huuskonen,

Principal Member of Research Staff, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland

Dr. Pertti Huuskonen is Principal Scientist with Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland. He holds a doctorate in computer science from University of Oulu, Finland, 1997. He has been applying artificial intelligence in his previous positions at VTT and CERN on such diverse fields as industrial control, high-energy physics and telecommunication. His research interests with Nokia have included context awareness, ubiquitous computing, and mobile interaction for more than a decade. In 2006, he co-authored a book on Personal Content Experience at Nokia Research in Palo Alto, California. His laptop has probably seen all the cafés of Silicon Valley. He is now on a sabbatical in the University of Tampere, authoring his next book on Context Awareness, and drinking too much coffee again.

Marc Parlange

Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL

Speaker: Marc Parlange is Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering. He completed his MS and PhD at Cornell University in Civil and Environmental Engineering before joining the University of California as Assistant Professor in 1990. He was promoted to Professor of Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1996 and joined the EPFL faculty in 2004. He and his PhD students work in hydrology and fluid mechanics in the environment especially as concerns land-atmosphere exchange and evaporation over complex terrain. He has been awarded the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union, and the Dalton Medal of the European Geosciences Union. Previously he was Editor of Advances in Water Resources and is currently Editor in Chief of Water Resources Research.

David McKay

Professor in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

David MacKay studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He is now a Professor in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University. His research interests include machine learning, reliable computation and communication with unreliable hardware, and the creation of information-efficient human-computer interfaces. He would be delighted if Nokia were to include Dasher (www.dasher.org.uk) as a text entry method in one of their wonderful mobile phones. He is writing a free popular book on Sustainable Energy.

Monika Henzinger

Professor at the School of Communication and Computer Sciences, EPFL

Monika Henzinger received her PhD in 1993 from Princeton University and joined the Computer Science Department at Cornell University as assistant professor. In 1996 she became a member of technical staff at the Systems Research Center of Digital Equipment Corporation. A few years later she joined Google as the Director of Research. Since 2005 she has been a faculty member at the School of Computer & Communication Sciences of EPFL, heading the Laboratory of Theory and Applications of Algorithms. Dr. Henzinger is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an European Young Investigator Award, and a Top 25 Women on the Web Award and she is a co-recipient of the SOSP 1997 Best Paper Award.

Olav Tirkkonen

Principal Member of Research Staff, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland and Professor in the Department of Communications and Networking, Helsinki University of Technology

Olav Tirkkonen received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Helsinki University of Technology in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Between 1994 and 1999 he was with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen. He joined Nokia Research Center in 1999, where he first concentrated on physical layer resarch on multiantenna communication. In 2004-2006 he was leading the Nokia-wide research for the physical layer standardization of UTRA Long Term Evolution. Since August 2006 he is sharing his time between the position of a Principal Member of Research Staff at Nokia Research Center, and the position of a professor in communications at the Department of Communications and Networking in Helsinki University of Technology. His current research interests are in multiantenna techniques, cellular system design, and self-organization of wireless networks. He has published some 50 papers, is the coinventor of some 40 families of patents and patent applications and is a co-author of the book "Multiantenna transceiver techniques for 3G and beyond".

Peter L. Bossaerts

Professor in the College of Management of Technology, EPFL

Peter Bossaerts received a licentiate and doctorandus degree in applied economics from the University of Antwerp in Belgium and a PhD Management (Finance) at UCLA, under Richard Roll. His first appointment as assistant professor was at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration. In 1990, Peter Bossaerts moved to Caltech, where he was promoted to become Professor of Finance, and ultimately the William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management. He was also Executive Officer for the Social Sciences and Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. Peter Bossaerts is presently Swiss Finance Institute Professor at EPFL, chairing the Laboratory for Decision Making under Uncertainty. While his research and publications have encompassed many areas of theoretical and empirical finance, his present work is focused on experimental finance. This work borrows tools from many relevant fields, such as decision theory, general equilibrium theory, game theory, cognitive psychology, and decision neuroscience. His work has been published in top journals in finance, economics and neuroscience. Peter Bossaerts has taught undergraduate, MBA, PhD and executive classes at various places across the world. He is or has been on the board of many academic journals, such as the Review of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and Mathematical Finance.

Amin Shokrollahi

Professor at the Schools of Basic Sciences and Communication and Computer Sciences, EPFL

Amin Shokrollahi has worked on a variety of topics, including coding theory, computational number theory and algebra, and computational algebraic complexity theory. He is best known for his work on iterative decoding algorithms of graph based codes, an area in which he holds more than 20 granted and pending patents. He is the co-inventor of Tornado codes, and the inventor of Raptor codes. His codes have been standardized and successfully deployed in industrial applications involving data transmission over lossy networks. Amin finished his PhD in 1991 at the University of Bonn. From 1995 to 1998 he was a Senior Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Mathematical Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Since 2000 he is the Chief Scientist of Digital Fountain, a company specializing on fast and reliable data transmission on unreliable networks. In 2003 Amin joined the faculty of EPFL where he holds a position as a full professor jointly in the departments of Mathematics, and of Computer Science. Amin is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was awarded the best paper award of the IEEE IT Society in 2002 for his work on iterative decoding of LDPC codes, the IEEE Eric Sumner Award in 2007 for the development of Fountain Codes, and the joint Communication Society/Information Theory Society best paper award of 2007 for his paper on Raptor Codes.