IEEE Finland best thesis awards celebrate emerging talent in signal processing and circuits

The IEEE Finland Chapter on Signal Processing and Circuits and Systems (SP/CAS) has recognised two outstanding early-career researchers in its 2025 Best Thesis Competition. Both the doctoral dissertation award and the master´s thesis award were awarded for research conducted at the University of Oulu.

Sumit Pratap Singh received the Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work on Radio receiver front-end ICs at the sub-THz/THz frequency range in silicon technology. His research explores integrated circuit design at extremely high frequencies, a key enabler for future communication systems such as 6G. Singh’s thesis contributes to the development of low-noise, high-gain receiver components using silicon-based technologies.


Vili-Valtteri Ojala was awarded for his Master’s thesis, A Fast Convergence Unbiased Low Complexity Method for Digital Pre-distorter Parameter Estimation: Algorithm and Architecture. His work proposes an efficient method for parameter estimation in digital predistortion, which improves transmitter linearity while keeping computational requirements low — an important advancement for power-efficient wireless systems.

The award event also featured a keynote by Oskari Tervo, Senior Staff Research Specialist at Nokia Standards, on the future of cellular networks and their trajectory toward 6G. His talk was supported by the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Finland. The IEEE SPCAS Best Thesis Awards highlight academic excellence in the field and signal the advancing research happening across Finland. Updates on future competitions and events will be announced through the organizing chapter and participating universities.

Last updated: 14.10.2025