Erkki Harjula

Dr. Erkki Harjula is a tenure-track associate professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications - Networks and Systems (CWC-NS) research unit, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE). He received a D.Sc. degree in 2016, and a M.Sc. degree in 2007. He has background in the interface between computer science and wireless communications: mobile and IoT networks, distributed networks, cloud computing and green computing.

Currently, Prof. Harjula leads a team of ~10 researchers, called Wireless system level architectures for future digital healthcare (WEALTH), focusing on communication architectures for healthcare use cases. He and his team collaborates closely with healthcare researchers, clinicians, and industry partners to enable high-performance, secure, robust and resilient digital healthcare solutions in various use cases. The work bridges academic research and real-world needs, translating emerging technologies into impactful healthcare innovations. The key technologies include Edge-cloud continuum, Edge-AI, Medical IoT, Network Security and Green communications. WEALTH team is a part of WiMeC research group within CWC-NS research unit.

Furthermore, he leads the Computing on the edge-to-cloud continuum theme within the 6G Flagship Strategic Area 3: Distributed Intelligence. Harjula is the Principal Investigator in Eware-6G, Tomohead (Co-PI), Tech2Heal and Distech-6G projects, and he is the responsible teacher of Introduction to Internet graduate course. He is also an associate editor in Springer Wireless Networks (WINE) journal.

Previously, Harjula has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and project manager at CWC-NS (2016-2020), and a research scientist / project manager for Center for Internet Excellence (CIE) (2013-2015) and MediaTeam (2000-2014) research groups. He was a visiting scientist at the Columbia University in 2008-2009.

Courses:

Introduction to Internet (Fitech)