Abhishek Kumar

I am working broadly in the following areas from software-hardware co-integration angle:

• Internet of Things
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Environmental Sensing
  • IoT Data Fabric
• Distributed XR
• 6G Software Architecture
• Machine Learning Systems
• Software-defined Battery
• Software-defined Hardware Infrastructure

I am also interested in exploring how ICT can aid in achieving UN SGD goals, in particular goals of clean energy, clime action, sustainable cities and communities and quality education.

I have also been heavily involved in teaching and supervisions as responsible teacher and supervisor at the University of Oulu.

Ongoing Course:

• 521290S Distributed Systems, 5 ECTS, 2025

Planned Courses:

• DP00AS69 High Performance Computing: Programming Parallel Supercomputers, 3 ECTS, 2025
• DP00AY84-3001 Network Analysis and Graph Machine Learning, 2 ECTS, 2025
• Internet of Things for Manufacturing Industry (Executive Education/Industry Training), via MooC, 2 ECTS, 2025

Couse Proposal under consideration:

• Cloud Computing and its Applications, 5 ECTS

Past Courses:

• Intenet of Things for Manufacturing Industry (Executive Education/Industry Training), 2 ECTS, 2024
• DP00AS69 High Performance Computing: Programming Parallel Supercomputers, 3 ECTS, 2024
• 521043S Internet of Things, 5 ECTS, 2023
• 521290S Distributed Systems, 5 ECTS, 2023
• 521043S Internet of Things, 5 ECTS, 2022

Supervision:

• Ongoing:
  • 1 PhD Student, 11 Master Thesis Students, 4 students undertaking Independent studies
• Finished:
  • 3 Bachelor Thesis Students, 4 Master Thesis Students, 10 Advanced Practical Training Students, and multiple unofficial internships

Prior to moving to Oulu, I was a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki from 08 Feb 2018 to 07 Feb 2022. During my PhD, I worked primarily in the areas of Pervasive Computing and Multimedia Computing with a special focus on privacy and robustness. I defended my PhD thesis titled Towards Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing: Bringing Privacy and Robustness to Computing in Context. I also briefly worked in the End-to-End Radio Network Service Automation Department at Nokia Bell Labs Espoo in 2021.

My current collaboration network in Finland includes VTT, Ericsson Research (under IETF/IRTF context), Alif Semiconductor, Aalto University, and University of Helsinki. I also advise Soundxvision Oy, Helsinki XR Center based startup which aims to build small form factor input modality hardware for XR headsets. Soundxvision received an angel investment in December 2023.

My research has been supported by FARIA - Finnish-American Research & Innovation Accelerator, FICORE - Indian-Finnish Consortia for Research and Education, Nokia Foundation, HPY Research Foundation, and Walter Ahlström Foundation.