Jaakko Tapio Astola#
Membership Number: | 3282 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jta |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1.10.1993 - present Professor of Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology
- 1.8.2001 - 31.7.2006 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland
- 1.8.1988 - 30.9.1993 Associate professor of applied mathematics at Tampere university (appointed from 1.1.88)
- 1.1.1988 - 31.7.88 Acting professor of electrical engineering (electronics) at Tampere University of Technology
- 1.11.87 - 31.12.87 Researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Tampere University of Technology
- 1.8.87 - 31.10.87 Acting associate professor of computer science at Lappeenranta University of Technology
- 1.7.79 - 31.7.87 Lecturer of mathematics at Lappeenranta University of Technology
- 1.9.84 - 31.12.84 Researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology. Research work with the Discrete Mathematics Group headed by Prof. J.H. van Lint
- 1.4.76 - 31.3.77 Study and research at the Department of Computer Science of Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Fields of Scholarship
- Image processing
- Signal processing
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Spectral and algebraic methods in signal processing
- Audio signal processing
- Information theory and statistical inference
- Compression methods
- Systems biology and bioinformatics
- Algebraic coding theory
- Logic design and representations of discrete functions
Honours and Awards
- 2012 EURASIP FELLOW, European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
- Recipient of the 2010 Nokia Award
- 2007 SPIE FELLOW, SPIE,
- April 15, 2002 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters,
- October 16, 2001 Member of the Finnish Academy of Technology,
- December 6, 2000 Award: Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland, from the President of Finland,
- 2000 IEEE FELLOW,