Jari Nurmi is a professor at the Electrical Engineering unit in Tampere University (TAU), formerly Tampere University of Technology (TUT). He has held various research, education and management positions at TAU and TUT and in the industry since 1987. He got a D.Sc.(Tech) degree from TUT in 1994. His current research interests include System-on-Chip integration, Approximate Computing, on-chip communication, embedded and application-specific processor architectures, and circuit and system design and implementation for digital communication, positioning and DSP. He is leading a group of about 10 researchers and research associates at TAU.
Dr. Nurmi is the general chairman of the annual IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference NorCAS (a merger of the former International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC) and the Nordic Microelectronics Conference NORCHIP), and a board member of NorCAS, ICL-GNSS, FPL, and BEC conference series. He was/is also general chair of International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 2005 and International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS) 2011, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, general co-chair of IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) 2009 and Conference on Design and Architecture for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP) 2011, conference chair of NORCHIP 2010 and 2014, TPC co-chair in NORCHIP 2005, European Workshop on Microelectronics Education (EWME) 2006 and FPL 2010. He was also the local organization chair of ESWeek 2012, and host of FPGAworld Tampere 2012 and HiPEAC ESW Autumn 2020. He was the head of the national TELESOC graduate school 2001-2005, board member of national GETA graduate school 2007-2013, and director of national DELTA doctoral training network 2014-2021. He is the author or co-author of about 400 international papers, editor of Springer book “Processor Design: System-on-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs,” co-editor of Kluwer book “Interconnect-centric Design for Advanced SoC and NoC” and Springer books “GALILEO Positioning Technology” and “Multi-Technology Positioning,” and has supervised about 150 MSc theses, a few Licentiate theses and 27 Doctoral theses. He has been an opponent or reviewer for yet another 48 PhDs worldwide. He has reviewed projects and project proposals for The European Commission, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Saudi-Arabia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland. He is a senior member in IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Computer Society, Signal Processing Society, Solid-State Circuits Society, Communications Society, Aerospace Electronics and Systems Society, and Vehicular Technology Society. He was one of the recipients of Nokia Educational Award in 2004, and the recipient of Tampere Congress Award 2005, and co-recipient of IIDA Innovation Award in 2011. He has been awarded one of the Academy of Finland Senior Scientist research grants for the academic year 2007-2008. He got the Scientific Conference Award in 2013, and HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award 2013. Dr. Nurmi is also a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society technical committee on VLSI Systems and Applications (CAS/VSA), and HiPEAC Network-of-Excellence. He served as a member of the board of Tampere Convention Bureau, and coordinator of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network MULTI-POS 2012-2016 and is coordinating APROPOS ITN 2020-2024. He is also a co-founder of Ekin Labs Oy / Radiomaze, Inc., an award-winning research spin-off company since 2013.