Lauri Lovén

Lauri Lovén, D.Sc.(Tech) is a PI and the vice-director of the Center for Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), University of Oulu, in Finland. He leads the Future Computing Group of ca. 20 researchers and coordinates the Distributed Intelligence strategic research area in the 6G Flagship research program. He received his D.Sc. at the university of Oulu in 2021, was with the Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien in 2022, and visited the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the ETH Zürich in 2023. He's an associate editor at the SpringerNature Computing journal. His current research concentrates on edge intelligence. He has co-authored 2 patents and ca. 50 research articles in international journals, conferences, and workshops. Before and during his academic career he has worked ca. 20 years in software industry, primarily with AI startups, as founder, CTO, board member, advisor and mentor, among other roles.