Olli Simula, EspooAmbassador 2011

Professor Olli Simula is head of the Department of Information and Computer Science in Aalto University, School of Science. As professor of Computer Science Simula has worked since 1997. Between years 1989 and 1996 he worked in Helsinki University of Technology as Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering.

Simula's central areas of scientific interests are digital signal processing, neural networks and their applications in intelligent and adaptive systems, computer architectures for signal processing and exploratory data analysis and mining.

During his career Simula has been inviting many international conferences to Finland. 13 of which came to Finland 10 were held in Espoo. In addition Simula has worked in 33
local scientific or organising committees of international conferences (5 of which was held in Espoo).

Olli Simula is also highly appreaciated within his scientifical field and it is shown by the multiple presentations and requested speeches plus wide list of scientifical publications and articles.

More information: Olli Simula, CV

EspooAmbassador 2011 -award was given to Olli Simula during EspooMenu -lunch in Dipoli Congress Centre in 25th August.2011.  This year was the first time when EspooMenu -lunch was organised. In future the lunch will be every year in August but as a EspooAmbassador -lunch where the next Ambassador will be announced.