MIKA YLIANTTILA (mika.ylianttila (-at-) oulu.fi) was nominated in 2007 Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Information Engineering and Information Network Systems at the Computer Science and Engineering laboratory and in 2009 the Associate Director of the MediaTeam Oulu research group at the University of Oulu, Finland. He started his research career at the Centre for Wireless Communications and Telecommunication Laboratory in 1997, and worked there till 2002. Dr. Ylianttila received his M.Sc. degree in electrical and information engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 1998; Licentiate of Technology degree in 2001, and Doctor of Technology (PhD) degree in 2005, respectively. In his doctoral thesis he addressed vertical mobility management and handoff in heterogeneous wireless IP networks. He has acted as pro tem professor 2005-2009, responsible of Information networks degree programme, at the Electrical and Information Engineering department, University of Oulu.

His research is focused on multimedia communication and information network systems, including topics on overlay networking and technical performance; community management and user experience; content management and service architectures. More specifically, topics include signaling, mobility and session management; communication and service architectures; mobile peer-to-peer protocols; and extending towards topics on modeling user experience and techno-economical analysis. He has been responsible of Information networks degree programme for several years, which has had a techno-economical emphasis. He is teaching courses in the areas of information networks and multimedia systems. He works constantly with new national and international ICT project initiatives, and participates and follows actively the standardization development. Dr. Ylianttila was the Chairman of the IEEE Finland Section 2008-2009, and is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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Dr. Mika Ylianttila is an Adjunct Professor in Information Engineering and Information Network Systems at the Computer Science and Engineering laboratory and Associate Director at the Media Team Oulu research group, at the University of Oulu, Finland. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Information engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 1998; Licentiate of Technology degree in 2001, and Doctor of Technology (PhD) degree in 2005, respectively. He was appointed as Adjunct Professor in Information Engineering and Information Network Systems in 2007. He has acted as pro tem professor 2005-2009, responsible of Information networks degree programme, at the Electrical and Information Engineering department, University of Oulu. His research is focused on multimedia communication and information network systems, including topics on overlay networking and technical performance; community management and user experience; content management and service architectures. More specifically, topics include signaling, mobility and session management; communication and service architectures; mobile peer-to-peer protocols; and extending towards topics on modeling user experience and techno-economical analysis. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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