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I’m responsible of immersive audio research & standardization at Nokia. My passion is to shape the future of audio, from spatial audio to 6DoF and beyond.

I’m experienced in leading audio/visual research teams, building forward-looking prototypes and protecting key innovations with numerous patents. Due to my long background in user experience, I’m able to design novel R&D concepts that take the end-user experience into account. Bringing new technical enablers to the end user as appealing solutions is one of my key talents.

I’m always eager to learn something new and take part in new adventures!

Tampere University of Technology, 2014

Doctor of Science (Computer Science)

Thesis: Novel Music Discovery Concepts: User Experience and Design Implications

Tampere University of Technology, 2003

Master of Science (Computer Science)

Nokia, 1998-2024 – Head of Immersive Audio Standardization (Current position)

• Heading audio standardization and related research (3GPP IVAS, MPEG Immersive Audio)
• Leading a large multi-cultural team
• Significant focus in patenting
• Building forward-looking prototypes and solutions
• Responsible of roadmaps, audio research portfolio & audio IPR strategy

Previous Nokia positions:

Distinguished research manager, Immersive Audio Research (2022-2024)

Research Leader – Immersive Audio Technologies (2016-2022)

Research Leader – Media Cloud Analytics (2014-2016)

Principal Researcher – Entertainment & Music Design (2012-2014)

Senior Specialist – User Experience (2008-2012)

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AND Solutions, 2000-> – Founder

Side activity that has included, e.g., importing and selling electric bicycles, Web design, and consulting.

Tampere University of Technology, 2002-2003 – Part-time teacher (Assistant)

Teaching Usability & User-Centered Design

• Over 700 granted patents in 250 patent families
• >500 filed patent applications. One (or if not most) Nokia productive innovator.
• Recognized Nokia top inventor 2012-2022, 6 years of being Nokia Corporation #1 inventor
• Inventor training on 5 sites and developed proven methods for mass IPR generation
• Wide range of innovations: audio, music, user interfaces, VR/AR/XR, multimedia, mobile devices, accessories, vehicles.
• 20 scientific publications (Detailed list in LinkedIn)
• Proven skills in patent portfolio management & mining and claim analysis

Finnish Institute of Enterprise Management, 1997

Entrepreneurship degree

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Immersive audio

Skilled audio expert with background in producing solutions for 3D spatial audio, music discovery, source tracking, source separation, volumetric audio (6DoF), AR/VR audio, communication audio, and more.

Music

Experienced musician with 30+ years of history in playing various instruments, hundreds of live performances, 200+ composed songs, music production and even being a conductor for a musical theater band.

Leadership

Long experience in leading and managing projects & products, in addition to 10 years of experience in leading research teams. True people leader with skills to build high performing teams.

Innovation & concepts

Following latest technology trends and have a wide portfolio including building numerous research concepts & prototypes complemented with hundreds of patents from various technology areas. Skills with patent and claim language for improved outcome of inventions.

User Experience

Acknowledged expert in UX. Broad experience in designing and conducting small and large-scale R&D user trials and pilots. External pilots with companies such as Reuters, Lonely Planet, New York Times and many others. The trials have varied from small paper prototype testing to larger international multi-party field experiments.

Interaction design and user interfaces

Practical experience in interaction design and light-weight UI design for R&D prototypes.

Social and language skills

Very outgoing person with fluent English skills. Likes to interact and collaborate with people. Basic language skills with Spanish, German and Swedish.

Real-time spatial audio mixing prototype

Invented world’s first real-time spatial audio tracking and rendering system. The solution was initially targeted for VR and demonstated in high profile events, e.g., NAB show. A version of the concept was later productized as part of the OZO Live offering.

Prototype of volumetric telepresence in AR

Worlds first multi-room volumetric telepresence protype for Augmented Reality. Users are able to experience volumetric audio telepresence together having extremely immersive experience.

Composition of world’s first volumetric song

Composed and played all instruments to world’s first volumetric multi-zone song where a user can walk inside the song and the experience the song in unique ways according to user position. The song is now part of official MPEG-I standardization test content.

Productizing music recommendation algorithms

Long-term research in ways for improving music recommendations, including e.g., world’s first instrument dominance analysis algorithm. A selection of the developed algorithms were integrated as part of a large music service back-end.

Novel user interfaces for music

World’s most extensive (evaluated) collection of novel user interface prototypes for finding new and appealing music from massive music catalogs. The work has inspired several companies for their solutions.

Streaming mobile music service

In 2004, probably one of the first mobile streaming music service prototype was created. The prototype later extended to cover numerous novel usage concepts to support social listening and finding new music.

External collaboration

Long track record in establishing University and company partnerships for supporting and complementing internal research work. Active participation and preparation of different public funding projects and experience even in coaching and hosting student projects with proven track record.

On request to address specific areas of expertise.