Erkki Harjula

Dr. Erkki Harjula is a tenure-track assistant 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, he leads a team of six researchers, called Wireless system level architectures for future digital healthcare (WEALTH), focusing on communication architectures for healthcare use cases. 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)