Matti Latva-aho

Matti Latva-aho (IEEE Fellow) received the M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr. Tech (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996 and 1998, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland, after which he joined the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho was Director of CWC during the years 1998-2006 and Head of the Department for Communication Engineering until August 2014. Currently, he is a Professor at the University of Oulu on wireless communications and served as Director for the National 6G Flagship Programme until 6/2025. He served as Academy of Finland Professor in 2017 - 2021. He was nominated as a Global Fellow at Tokyo University in 2021. Currently Latva-aho is Vice President for Research at University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho has published over 600 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications. He received the Nokia Foundation Award in 2015 for his achievements in mobile communications research.