Timo I. Laakso was born in Vantaa, Finland in 1961. He received the Master
of Science in Technology, the Licentiate of Science in Technology, and
the Doctor of Science in Technology degrees in electrical engineering in
the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Helsinki University of
Technology in 1987, 1990, and 1991, respectively. After graduation he was
1992-1994 with the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, working on
the research of 3rd-generation mobile communication systems. In 1994-1996
he was Lecturer at the University of Westminster,
London. Since 1996 he is professor of signal processing at the Helsinki University of
Technology.
Dr. Laakso has ca. 100 journal and conference publications on design and
implementation of digital filters and mobile communications systems. His
interests are in the design and implementation of digital signal processing
algorithms for telecommunications. He is a Senior Member of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
and a member of the Finnish Clarinet Society.
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