NAME AND ADDRESS : Juha Jaakko Röning
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: December 21st, 1957, Pyhäjoki, Finland
NATIONALITY: Finnish
MARITAL STATUS
Married to Eija Röning, two sons: Tapio Röning, born June 6th, 1995 Janne Röning, born May 19th, 1997
ADDRESS, TELEPHONE, EMAIL
Infotech Oulu and Dept. of Electrical Engineering, P.O. Box 4500, FIN-90014 University of Oulu , Finland
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Doctor of Technology at the University of Oulu, November 1992.
PRESENT POSITION
Docent, Professor of Embedded Systems at the University of Oulu, since 1993.
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
The principal goal of our research is to develop components for the next generation of intelligent systems, which are autonomous, adaptive, and able to correct their own mistakes. Such features imply from a system an ability to perceive, reason, act, and learn from experiences. In this work, we utilize methods from several research fields: robotics, artificial intelligence, machine vision, pattern recognition, neural computing, and fuzzy logic.
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1/2003- Head of Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu.
9/1998- Professor of Embedded Systems at the University of Oulu.
10/1995-8/1998 Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Oulu.
8/1995-9/1995 Senior Research Associate at the University of Oulu.
8/1994-7/1995 Associate Professor at the University of Oulu.
1994-7/1994 Senior Research Associate at the University of Oulu.
1993- Docent in Information Technology, specifically intelligent machines and their applications.
1993-1994 Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Oulu.
1992-1993 Senior Research Associate at the University of Oulu.
1991-1992 Laboratory Engineer in the Computer Laboratory, University of Oulu.
1990-1991 Graduate student in Computer Science Program.
1989-1990 Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu.
1986-1989 Junior Research Fellow in the Academy of Finland.
1985-1986 Visiting Research Scientist, Center for Robotic Research, University of Cincinnati.
1984-1985 Laboratory Engineer in the Computer Laboratory, University of Oulu.
1983-1984 Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu. Summer 1982
Summer 1981 Research Assistant in the Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Berlin, Germany.
Summer 1980 Asea Kabel AB (Sweden). Work planner in an underground cable section.
Summer 1979 Asea Kabel AB (Sweden). Final electricity tests for cables.
1977-1978 Military service.
RESEARCH AWARDS, HONOURS AND MAJOR GRANTS
Asla/Fulbright scholarship 1985
MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS
Responsible director of project:
REDI: Remote Distributed Intelligence. (Funding 120 000 euro 2005-2007, Academy of Finland.)
Easy: Home Helper and wireless mobile aid. (Funding 9/2003-8/2004, 203 900 euro)
Beacon: Behaviour modelling in context-aware systems.(Funding: 180 000 euro,2003-2005, Academy of Finland.)
Apricot: Agent Platform for Applications Serving Mobile Users. (Funding: 417106 euro, 1.1.2002 - 31.12.2002)
Robots Serving Humans (Funding 800 KFIM by Academy of Finland, 2001-2002)
Intelligent Moving Aids for the Elderly (Funding annually 800 KFIM, 2001-2002)
GENIE - Genie of the Net - An Environment for Ubiquitous Servants (Funding 4900 KFIM, 2000-2001).
PROTOS - Security Testing of Protocol Implementations (Funding 3400 KFIM, 1.1.1999-31.12.2001).
Usage of Spatio-Temporal Neural Networks for Solving Time-Dependent Measurement Problems (Funding 1470 KFIM, 1.3.1998-30.4.2000).
Intelligent signal analysis and the required component technology (Funding 3000 KFIM, 1.9.1994 - 28.2.1998).
Reactive and goal-oriented robot (Funding 101 KFIM by Academy of Finland 1.1.1996 - 31.12.1996.)
Project Manager: Project Real-time software environment for machine vision (REKKI-94), Funding 700 KFIM, 15.4.1994 - 31.3.1995).
Research partner of project:
OSLO: Application of Property Models to End Product. (Funding 2005-2007, 100 000 euro)
TASA: Improvement the uniform quality of hot-rolled steel products. (Funding 2004-2005, 100 000 euro)
SIOUX: Intelligent system for dynamic online quality control of spot welding processes for cross-sectoral applications. (Funding 395 860 euro, 1.9.2002 - 31.8.2004 by European Comission)
VALTA: Improvement of Rolling Accuracy, (Funding 336 500 euro, 1.1.2002 - 31.12.2002)
HI-TECH STEEL; responsible director of the subproject Data Mining and Estimation of Rejection Risk (Funding 1600 KFIM, 1.8.1998-31.12.2001).
Project Multimedia Home Aid Communication System (Funding 300 KFIM, 1.8.1998-31.8.1999).
Mobile work machine environment modeling; responsible for obstacle detection (Funding 400 KFIM, 1.3.1995 - 31.12.1996).
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE),
GUIDANCE OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Suprvisor of over 100 completed master's, four licentiate, and one doctoral theses.
OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Secretary of Pattern Recognition Society of Finland, 1987 - 1992.
Secretary of SPIE's Robotics Working Group, 1991 -
Vice Chairman of Pattern Recognition Society of Finland 1997 - 1999.
Three patents.
Author or co-author of more than 150 papers in international journals, books, and conference proceedings.
Reviewer of the book: Buchanan: PC Interfacing, Communications and Windows Programming, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Reviewer of book proposal Operating System Concepts and Implementation: A Linux Perspective by Rushikesh Joshi, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Reviewer of a special volume in the Springer Verlag series on 'Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' (Intelligent Sensor Based Robot Systems), February 1999.
Reviewer of Robotics and Autonomous Systmes, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Optical Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation, IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems, International Journal of Neural Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on SMC, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Neurocomputing and several international and national conferences in the field of image analysis and intelligent systems (from 1988).
Member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal Engineering Letters.
EU programme Consultation Meeting "Trust and Confidence in the mobile Information Society" for the 6th Framework Programme, Brussels on 3-4 May 2001.
EURON Advisory Committee, EU programme Consultation Meeting "Robotics brainstorming" for the 6th Framework Programme, Brussels on 6-7 March 2002.
Evaluator of the Strategic Objective 2.3.1.5, Call 1 of the 6th Framework Programme, "Towards a global dependability and security framework", Brussels, on 18-24 May 2003 (evaluation).
Evaluator of the Strategic Objective 2.3.1.5, Call 1 of the 6th Framework Programme, "Towards a global dependability and security framework", Brussels, on 10-13 June 2003 (hearing).
Custodian for a doctoral dissertation: Jukka Riekki, Reactive Execution of a Mobile Robot, University of Oulu, 18.12.1998.
Custodian for a doctoral dissertation: Janne Haverinen, Adaptation through a Stochastic Evolutionary Neuron Migration Process, University of Oulu, 23.3.2004.
Custodian for a doctoral dissertation: Susanna Pirttikangas, Routine Learning: From Reactive to Proactive Environments, University of Oulu, 19.11.2004.
Custodian for a doctoral dissertation: Esa, Methods and Techniques for Experimenting with Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, 11.4.2005.
Custodian for a doctoral dissertation: Jouni Huhtinen, Utilizatioin of Neural Network and Agent Technology Combination for Distributed Intelligent Applications and Services, University of Oulu, 4.11.2005.
Supervisor of licentiate thesis: Juha Alakärppä, Evaluation of Software Development Principles of Selected Palmtop Computers, 2004.
Supervisor of licentiate thesis: Rauli Kaksonen, A Functional Method for Assessing Protocol Implementation Security, 2001.
Supervisor of licentiate thesis: Esa Tuulari, Context Recognition with Handheld Electronic Devices, 2000.
Supervisor of licentiate thesis: Kimmo Takanen, A Fast Estimation Method of the Number of Recommended Test Cases for Protocol Conformance Testing, 2000.
Reviewer of licentiate thesis: Latvakoski Esko Juhani, Integration Test Automation of Embedded Communication Software, 1997.
Reviewer of licentiate thesis: Hasemann Jörg-Michael, Planning and monitoring in dynamic environments, 1994.
Reviewer of licentiate thesis: Härkönen Ari, A Design Procedure for Image Acquisition Systems, 1994.
Reviewer of doctoral dissertation: Pietikäinen Markku, Detecting Knots in Logs Using X-Ray Imaging, 1995.
Reviewer of a doctoral dissertation: Hasemann Jörg-Michael, Planning and Monitoring in Dynamic Environments, 1996.
Reviewer of doctoral dissertation: Pasi Kolinummi, Hardware Implementation and Applications of Scalable Parallel Computer, 2000.
Reviewer of doctoral dissertation: Jari Syrjärinne, Studies of Modern Techniques for Personal Positioning, 2001
Reviewer of doctoral dissertation: Hannu Mäkelä, Outdoor Navigation of Unmanned Mobile Machines, 2001
Reviewer of doctoral dissertation: Iivari Kunttu, Shape and Gray Level Descriptors for Surface Defect Image Retrieval and Classification, 2005.
Reviewer of doctoral dissertation: Juhana Helovuo, A Functional Implementation Technique for Digital Signal Processing Software, 2005.
Reviewer of the candidates for Professorship in Software Engineering, University of Jyväskylä, 1999.
Reviewer of an invited candidate for Professorship in Computer Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, 1999.
Reviewer of the candidates for Professorship in Information Technology, University of Turku, 2000.
Expert statement in Docent nomination in Adaptive Signal Processing, Technical University of Helsinki, 2002.
Member of the examination committee for a doctoral dissertation: Kierkegaard Pär, Sensing Range by Using Two Illumination Sources and Two-Camera Streopsis, University of Linköping, Sweden, 2 May 1995.
Member of the examination committee for a doctoral dissertation: Forsberg Johan, Mobile Robot Navigation Using Non-Contact Sensors, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, 27 November 1998.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Per Gunnar Auran, A Spatial Reference Grid for Real-Time Autonomous Underwater Modeling using 3-D Sonar, The Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, 7.11.1996.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Ailisto Heikki, CAD model-based planning and vision guidance for optical 3D co-ordinate measurement, University of Oulu, 14 March 1997.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Paakkari Jussi, On-line flatness measurement of large steel plates using moire topography, University of Oulu, 5 June 1998.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Ulf Larsson, Robot Control with Feedback from Non-Contact Sensors, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, 14 December 1999.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Pasi Kolinummi, Hardware Implementation and Applications of Scalable Parallel Computer, Tampere University of Technology, 22 August 2000.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Jari Syrjärinne, Studies of Modern Techniques for Personal Positioning, Tampere University of Technology, 7 March 2001.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Hannu Mäkelä, Outdoor Navigation of Unmanned Mobile Machines, Helsinki University of Technoloyg, 30 November 2001.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Markus Varsta, Self-Organizing Maps in Sequence Processing, Helsinki University of Technoloyg, 12 December 2002.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Pekka Isto, Adaptive Probablistic Roadmap Construction with Multiheuristic Local Planning, Helsinki University of Technology, 26th of September 2003.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Jouni Raitamäki, An Approach to Linquistic Pattern Recognition Using Fuzzy Systems, University of Jyväskylä, 18th of December 2003.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Juha Alakarhu, DRAM System Design Using Simulation and Memory Stream Characterization, Tampere University of Technology, 8th of October 2004.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Johan Himberg, From Insights to Innovations: Data Mining, Visualization, and User Interfaces, Helsinki University of Technology, 5th of November 2004.
Opponent for a doctoral dissertation: Iivari Kunttu, Shape and Gray Level Descriptors for Surface Defect Image Retrieval and Classification, Tampere University of Technology, 25th of November 2005.
Chairman of local organization of the 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (19-22.6.1988).
Chairperson of several international and national conferences (from 1988).
Member of the management team in the TEKES project Navigation and Positioning of Mobile Robots, 1988 - 1989.
Member of Organizing Committee and Member of Program Committee of the 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (19-22.6.1988).
Session Coordinator of the IEEE Roundtable Discussion on Vision-based Vehicle Guidance (1990, Tokyo, Japan).
Member of the Program Committee of Blanco-92 (15-16.10.1992, Oulu, Finland).
Member of the Organizing Committee of Industrial Optical Sensing: Application and Integration (15-20.11.1992, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of Program Committee of International Dedicated Conference on Lean/Agile Manufacturing in the Automotive Industries, Aachen, Germany, 13-17 September 1993.
Member of Program Committee of Industrial Optical Sensing and Metrology: Applications and Integration (7-10.9.1993, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the Program Committee of Industrial Optical Sensors for Metrology and Inspection (31 Oct. - 4 November 1994, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: Algorithms and Computer Vision (31 Oct. - 4 November 1994, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: 3-D Vision, Product Inspection and Active Vision (31 Oct. - 4 November 1994, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the Program Committee of International Dedicated Conference on Lean/Agile Manufacturing in the Automotive Industries (Aachen, Germany, 31.10-4.11.1994).
Member of the Program Committee of International Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion and Machine Vision (Aachen, Germany, 31.10-4.11.1994).
Member of the examination committee for a doctoral dissertation: Kierkegaard Pär, Sensing Range by Using Two Illumination Sources and Two-Camera Streopsis, University of Linköping, Sweden, 2 May 1995.
Member of the Program Committee of International Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion and Machine Vision (Stuttgart, Germany, 18-22.9.1995).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIV: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision and Material Handling (22 - 26 October 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Member of the Program Committee of International Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion and Machine Vision in the Automotive Industries (Stuttgart, Germany, 18-22.9.1995).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XV: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision and Materials Handling (19-21 November 1996, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the Program Committee of International Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion and Machine Vision in the Automotive Industries (Florence, Italy, 16-19.6.1997).
Member of the Program Committee of International Dedicated Conference on Simulation, Diagnosis and Virtual Reality Applications in the Automotive Industry including Supercomputer Applications Robotics (Florence, Italy, 16-19.6.1997).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision and Materials Handling (14-17 October 1997, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
Member of the Program Committee for the Programme Track on Advanced Manufacturing in the Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry, (Dusseldorf, Germany, 2-5.6.1998).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision (1-6 November 1998, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the examination committee for a doctoral dissertation: Forsberg Johan, Mobile Robot Navigation Using Non-Contact Sensors, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, 27 November 1998.
Member of the Advisory Committee for the Programme Track on Advanced Manufacturing in the Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry, (Vienna, Austria, 14-18.6.1999).
Member of the Program Committee of the Finnish Signal Processing Symposium (FINSIG'99) (May 31, 1999, Oulu, Finland)
Member of the Program Committee of the Infotech Oulu Workshop on Texture Analysis in Machine Vision (June 14-15, 1999, Oulu, Finland).
Member of the Program Committee of the Scandinavian Symposium on Robotics 99 (October 14-15, 1999, Oulu, Finland).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVIII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision (19-22 September 1999, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the Programme Committee for Workshop on Real-Time Image Sequence Analysis, RISA'2000, Aug 31 - Sept 1, 2000, Oulu, Finland.
Member of the Programme Committee of the Robtics, Motion & Machine Vision Track in ISATA 2000, (Dublin, Ireland, September 25-29, 2000).
Member of the Programme Committee of the Infotech Oulu International Workshop on Information Retrieval September 20-21, 2001, Oulu, Finland.
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIX: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision (5-8 November 2000, Boston, Massachusetts).
Member of the Program Committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision (29-31 October 2001, Newton, Massachusetts).
Member of the Program Committee of The Fourth International Conference on Machine Automation, ICMA'02, Human-Friendly Reliable Mechatronics (September 11-13, 2002, Tampere, Finland).
Co-Chair of program committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXI: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, 27-31 October 2003, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Juha Röning: Co-Chair of the European Intensive Programme on Information and Communication Technologies Security (IPICS'2004) (5th Winter School, Oulu, Finland March 30 - April 7, 2004)
Member of the Program Committee An International workshop on Processing Sensory Information for Proactive Systems (PSIPS 2004) (Oulu, Finland, June 14-15, 2004).
Member of the Program Committee of The Finnish AI Conference SteP-2004 (1-3.9.2004, Vantaa, Finland).
Member of the Program Committee of The International Conference on Machine Automation, ICMA'04, Mechatronics for Safety, Security, and Dependability in New Era (November 24-26, 2004, Osaka, Japan).
Member of Steering Committee OpticsEast Symposium, (25-29 October 2004, Philadelphiad, Pennsylvania, USA).
Member of the Program Committee 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2004) (Sep. 28-Oct. 2, 2004 in Sendai, Japan).
Member of the Program Committee of the 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2004), Washington, Oct. 25-29, 2004.
Co-Chair of program committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision (25-29 October 2004, Philadelphiad, Pennsylvania, USA).
Member of the Program Committee 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), Barcelona, Spain, April 18-22, 2005.
Chair of program committee of IEEE Internationa Syposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA2005), June 27-30 2005, Espoo, Finland.
Member of the Program Committee of The 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2005, Barcelona, Spain, 14th - 17th September, 2005.
Co-Chair of program committee of Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision (23-25 October 2005, Boston, Massachusetts, USA).
Member of the Departmental Study Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, 3/1995-
Vice Head of the Departmental Study Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, 3/1995 -
Member of Departmental Graduate Study Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, 2/1995 -
Vice member of the Faculty of Technology Council, University of Oulu, 1997-2000.
Member of the Interactive Information Engineering Curriculum Development Group at the University of Oulu, 1998 -
Member of the committee appointed to establish a study option for medical engineering at the University of Oulu, 1999.
Member of committee of Information Security Development at the University of Oulu, 9/1999 -
Chairman of the Departmental Committee developing the process of grading the diploma theses, 1999.
Chairman of the University of Oulu self-assessment committee for the evaluation of programmes for information industry, the evaluation was done by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council, 1999.
Chairman of the Electrical and Information Engineering Transform Education Committee at the University of Oulu, 9/1999 -
Member of the Faculty of Technology Council, 2000 -
Member of the Senate of the University of Oulu, 2000 - 2002.
Head of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, 2003 -