Erkki Harjula

Dr. Erkki Harjula is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications – Networks and Systems (CWC-NS) research unit. He leads a team of six researchers, called Wireless system level architectures for future digital healthcare (WEALTH), focusing on communication architectures for healthcare use cases. The key technologies include Edge-cloud continuum, Edge-AI, Medical IoT, Network Security and Green communications. He received a D.Sc. degree in 2016, and a M.Sc. degree in 2007. Previously he has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and project manager at CWC-NS (2016-2020), and a research scientist / project manager for Center for Internet Excellence (CIE) (2013-2015), and for MediaTeam (2000-2014) research groups. He visited Columbia University in 2008-2009. Dr. Harjula is Principal Investigator in Eware-6G, Tomohead (Co-PI), Tech2Heal and Distech-6G projects, and he is the responsible teacher of Introduction to Internet graduate course. He is also an associate editor in Springer Wireless Networks (WINE) journal.