Panel chairing and organizing responsibilities

• Co-chair of panels, IEEE PIMRC 2006, Helsinki, Finland, Sept 2006.
• Chair and Organizer of panel, IEEE PIMRC 2006, Helsinki, Finland, Sept 2006.
• Chair and Organizer of panel, IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
• Panelist, WWI-MOCCA event, Shanghai, China 20.10.2005.
• Chair and Organizer of panel, IWS 2005, Alborg, Denmark, Sept 2005.
• Chair and Organizer of panel, IST Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 2005.
• Chair and Organizer of panel, IEEE Globecom, San Fransisco, Dec 2003.

Panel memberships

• Panelist, IEEE PIMRC 2005, Berlin, Germany, Sept 2005.
• Panelist, IEEE ICC 2005, Soul, Korea, May 2005.
• Panelist, IEEE ICC 2004, Paris, France, June 2004.
• Panelist, IEEE VTC 2004, Milan, Italy, May 2004.

Memberships in technical program committees

• WPMC 2009, Sendai, Japan, Sept 2009.
• WPMC 2007, Jaipur, India, Dec 2007.
• IEEE PIMRC 2007, Athens, Greece, Sept 2007.
• IEEE PIMRC 2006, Helsinki, Finland, Sept 2006.
• ISWC06, Valencia, Spain, Sept 2006.
• IST Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 2005.
• IST 99, Helsinki, Finland, Nov 1999.

Editorships

• Editor, WWRF Book on "Technologies for the Wireless Future", Chapters 1-2, Volume 2, 2006.
• Editor, WWRF Book on "Technologies for the Wireless Future", Chapter 1, 2004.
• Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine theme issue "WWRF Visions and Research Challenges for the Wireless Future", Vol 42 No. 9, September 2004.
• Editor, The Book of Visions 2001 of the Wireless World Research Forum.
• Editor, The Book of Visions 2000 of the Wireless Strategic Initiative.

Responsible positions

• Representative of Nokia, EICTA committee on research&development, 2000-2006.
• Chair, EICTA issue group on EU Framework programme, 2002-2003.
• Member, Tekes national strategy group in Information Society Technologies, 1999-2006.
• Representative of Finland in expert role, IST Committee, 1999-2000.
• Founding member and Nokia representative, EUREKA CELTIC core group, 2003-2005.
• Member, EUREKA ITEA board support group, 2000-2003
• Chair, Wireless World Research Forum, 2004-2006.
• Chair, Vision Committee of Wireless World Research Forum, 2003-2006.
• Member of the board, Wireless World Research Forum, 2001-2006.
• Member of the committee to evaluate Nokia quality award applications in the research category, 2003-2005.
• Member, ISTAG WG1, 2003.
• Founder and first president, Medical Technology Club PLÄTTY, Helsinki University of Technology, 1993.
• Vice president, PIK ry, the biggest aviation club in Finland, 1998.
• Representative of Finland in Chemistry Olympics in 1989.
• Member of the board, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 1994-1995.
• Membre de Comité directeur de l' Association Franco-finlandaise pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique 2006-.
• Chair of Tekes GIGA program topic group on wireless access networks 2009-.

Teaching

• Lecture on “Nanotechnology and limits of computation” on joint course of University of Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology, 2007.
• Series of lectures on “Nanotechnology in electronics” at the EVTEK University of Applied Sciences, 2007.
• Nokia internal teaching on research collaboration.
• Assistant on the Helsinki University of Technology courses on "Laboratory experiments on technical physics", "Structure and operation of the human brain", and "Physics II (electromagnetism)".
• Lectures on “Safe flying and human psychology” at PIK ry courses for future private pilot license holders.

Other

• Visiting scientist in New York University, USA, 1994 and 1995
• Senior Member of IEEE

• Happily married with Nina, one son and two daughters

Education

1993 to 1997

Doctor of Technology (technical physics)
Low Temperature Laboratory
Average 40 citations/article to the 6 journal articles of the PhD
thesis by mid 2006
Helsinki University of Technology

1989 to 1993

Master of Science (technical physics)
Department of Technical Physics
Helsinki University of Technology
+excellent grades (average 4,6/5)

1998 to 2003

Bachelor of Science (economics and business administration)
Department of Economics, Technology Management
Helsinki School of Economics (HKKK)

1987 to 1989

Secondary School Graduate
Tapiola Secondary School, Espoo, Finland
+Six laudaturs out of six possible (highest grade)
+several honorary diplomas

Work experience before graduation

• M.Sc. work on mathematics related to neuroscience, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
• Development of particle detector component aligning, CERN, Switzerland
• Vibrator indicator analysis, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
• Assistant in physics, Helsinki University of Technology
• Detector development, Outokumpu Electronics
• Assistant aircraft mechanic, alikersantti, Finnish Air Force
• Tourist information provider, Espoo city tourist information office
• Already in 1985-1988 summer technical assistant, Laboratory of Mineral Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology

Other

• Second in national physics competition for secondary school students in 1989
• Endurance sports as main hobby, Marathon record 3 hours 26 minutes in year 2000 (also mountain biking, paddling)
• Hunting and nature also as a hobby
• Private pilot license 1990-2001 (gliders, single engine planes, parachute jumping)
• Other interests: movies, literature, other sports

Languages

• Finnish - mother tongue
• English - fluent
• Swedish - fluent
• German - good
• French - reading and some speaking

Publications and patents

Topic areas cover wireless technologies, nanotechnology, technology policy, medical physics and neuroscience.

• 8 patents pending
• Peltonen J., Uusitalo M. A., and Pajarinen J., "Nano-scale fault tolerant machine learning for cognitive radio", accepted for MLSP 2008.
• Uusitalo, M. A. and Peltonen J., ”Nanocomputing with machine learning”, NTNE 2008.
• Uusitalo M. A., Andrew, P., Heino M., Kärkkäinen A., Rouvala M., Wei D., and Ryhänen T., "Green technology options for future mobile devices", invited to WPMC08.
• Kärkkäinen A., Andrew P., Colli A., Ermolov V., Radivojevic Z., Uusitalo M.A., and Ryhänen T., “Nanotechnology for future mobile devices”, presented at ANM2008.
• Uusitalo M. A. (Editor), “Combined View of Future Systems”, in the book Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF): Technologies for the Wireless Future, Volume 3, edited by David K., Wiley, 2008.
• Ermolov V., Heino M., Kärkkäinen A., Lehtiniemi, R., Nefedov N., Pasanen P., Radivojevic Z., Rouvala M., Ryhänen T., Seppälä, E., and Uusitalo M. A., "Significance of nanotechnology for future wireless devices and communications", The 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'07), Athens, Greece, 3.-7.9.2007.
• Uusitalo, M.A., “Global Vision for the Future Wireless World from the WWRF”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 1(2): 4-8, 2006
• Uusitalo M. A., Sapanel J.-C., Aftelak A., Alexiou A., Arbanowski S., Cardinael B., David K., Demestichas P., Dimitrakopoulos G., Dixit S., Hunt B., Jefferies N., Kellerer W., Kumar V., Mohr W., Sasse A., Skouby K. E., Sorensen L., and Wang H., Visions of System Concepts for Wireless World, WWRF, 2006
• Uusitalo M. A., Dixit S., Dimitrakopoulos G., Panagiotis D., Kim S. Y., Byung K. Yi, and Swanson L., "Introduction" and "Vision and Requirements of the Wireless World", in the book Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF): Technologies for the Wireless Future, Volume 2, edited by Tafazolli R., Wiley, 2006.
• Toh C.-K., Mähönen P., and Uusitalo M. A. "Standardization Efforts & Future Research Issues for Wireless Sensors & Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". Invited Paper in IEICE Transactions on Communications, E88B: 3500-3507, 2005.
• Uusitalo M. A., Dixit S., Crisler K., Popescu-Zeletin R., Arbanowski S., Tafazolli R., Moessner K., Walke B., and Pabst R., "Introduction", in the book Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF): Technologies for the Wireless Future, edited by Tafazolli R., Wiley, 2004.
• Maula M. V. J., Salmenkaita J.-P., and Uusitalo M.A., "Basic Challenges of Technology and Innovation Policy", in the book Innovaatiopolitiikka edited by Lemola T. and Honkanen P., Gaudeamus, 2004.
• Arbanowski S., Lipka M., Mössner K., Ott K., Pabst R., Pulli P., Schieder A., and Uusitalo M. A. "The WSI Reference Model for the Wireless World". Proceedings of the IST – Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Vol II: 613-617, 2003.
• Ehnholm G. J., Vahala E. T., Kinnunen J., Nieminen J. E., Standertskjöld-Nordenstam C.-G. M., and Uusitalo M. A. "Electron Spin Resonance Probe for Interventional MRI Instrument Localization". Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 10: 216-219, 1999.
• One of the papers in my Ph.D. thesis was the topic of one page story in Science: “Magnetic brain imaging Traces a Stairway to Memory” by J. Glanz in Science, 280(5360): 37, 1998.
• Uusitalo M. A., Virsu V., Salenius S., Näsänen R., and Hari R. "Activation of human V5 complex and rolandic regions in association with moving visual stimuli". NeuroImage, 5: 241-250, 1997.
• Vanni S., Uusitalo M. A. Kiesilä P., and Hari R. "Visual motion activatess V5 in dyslexics". NeuroReport, 8:1939-1942, 1997.
• Uusitalo M. A., Jousmäki V., and Hari R. "Activation trace lifetime of human cortical responses evoked by apparent visual motion". Neuroscience Letters, 224: 45-48, 1997.
• Uusitalo M. A. and Ilmoniemi R. J. "The Signal-Space Projection (SSP) method for separating MEG or EEG into components". Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 35: 135-140, 1997.
• Uusitalo M. A., Williamson S. J., and Seppä M. T. "Dynamical organization of the human visual system revealed by lifetimes of activation traces". Neuroscience Letters, 213: 149-152, 1996.
• Tesche C. D., Uusitalo M. A., Ilmoniemi R. J., Huotilainen M., Kajola M. J., and Salonen O. "Signal-space projections of MEG data characterize both distributed and well-localized neuronal sources". Electroencephalography and clinical Neurophysiology, 95: 189-200, 1995.
• Tesche C. D., Uusitalo M. A., Ilmoniemi R. J., and Kajola M. J. "Characterizing the local oscillatory content of spontaneous cortical activity during mental imagery". Cognitive Brain Research, 2(4): 243-249, 1995.

• "Green technology options for future mobile devices", with Andrew, P., Heino M., Kärkkäinen A., Rouvala M., Wei D., and Ryhänen T., invited to WPMC08, Lapland, Finland.
• “From Micro- to Nanoelectronics”, 7th International Workshop on Future Information Processing Technologies, Dresden, Germany, 4.9.2007, http://www.iwfipt.gwtonline.de/
• Neuromorphic engineering workshop, Telluride, Colorado, USA, 17.7.2007
• WWRF conference #18, Helsinki, Finland, 13.6. 2007.
• NSTI conference on nanotechnology, Santa Clara, California, USA, 22.5. 2007: Nokia vision on nanotechnology.
• Tekes GIGA seminar, Helsinki, Finland, 17.1.2007
• WWRF conference #17, Heidelberg, Germany, 15.11. 2006.
• Going Global 2006, Helsinki, Finland, 22.9.2006.
• CKIR workshop, Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, 29.8.2006
• Wireless Broadband World Forum 2006, Soul, Korea, 25.5. 2006.
• UAE Forum in Telecommunication Research 2006, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 17.5. 2006.
• WWRF conference #16, Shanghai, China, 26.4. 2006.
• WWRF conference #15, Paris, France, 8.12. 2005.
• WWI-MOCCA event, Shanghai, China 20.10.2005.
• International Conference on B3G, Shanghai, China, 18.10. 2005.
• WWRF conference #14, San Diego, USA, 6.7. 2005.
• IWCT05, Oulu, Finland, 9.6.2005.
• B3G by IBC Asia, Soul, Korea, May 2005.
• 3GPP2 Future evolution workshop, Soul, Korea, May 2005
• World Wireless Conference, Palo Alto, USA, May 2005.
• WWRF conference #13, Jeju, Korea, 1.3. 2005.
• WWI Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, 9.12.2004.
• 3G by IIR, Hong Kong, China, 18.11.2004.
• WWRF conference #12, Toronto, Canada, 4.11. 2004.
• 3G by IEE, London, UK, 18.10.2004.
• Futute Forum on mobile internet 2010, Bonn, Germany, 15.9.2004.
• Samsung 4G Forum, Jeju, Korea, 24.8.2004.
• Nordic Radio Symposium, Oulu, Finland, 18.8.2004
• WWRF conference #11, Oslo, Norway, 10.6.2004.
• ICB3G, Tokyo, Japan, 26.5.2004.
• EuroIndia, Delhi, India, 25.3.2004.
• WWRF conference #10, Beijing, China, 25.2.2004.
• IPv6 summit, Washington D.C., USA, Dec 2003
• WWRF conference #7, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 3.12.2002