People

Faculty staff:

• Yu Xiao
  Associate Professor, Team Leader
  yu.xiao(at)aalto.fi  |   |

Postdoctoral researchers:

• Ramyah Gowrishankar
  • Topic: smart textiles, energy harvesters
  • 2022-
  • ramyah.gowrishankar(at)aalto.fi
• Clayton Leite
  • Topic: resource-efficient human activity recognition, federated continual learning, text-to-motion
  • 2023 –
  • clayton.souzaleite(at)aalto.fi

Full-time Doctoral students:

• Yao Zhang
  “Resource-efficient machine learning for sensor-based human activity recognition”
  11.2024 – ;
  yao.1.zhang(at)aalto.fi
• Changyi Li
  “Deep learning for Multimodal activity recognition”
  11.2023 – ;
  changyi.li(at)aalto.fi
• Zeyu Yang
  “Federated continual learning for sensor-based human activity recognition”
  06.2023 – ;
  zeyu.yang(at)aalto.fi
• Tim Moesgen
  “Designing and developing haptic thermal and liquid experiences for virtual reality”
  09.2022 – ;
  tim.moesgen(at)aalto.fi

Part-time Doctoral students (4):

• Andrea Gentili (with VTT)
   “Enabling Next-Generation Connectivity for Critical Environments” 
  02.2024 –
• Truong-an Pham
  “Wearable cognitive assistance for assembly and maintenance”
  05.2017 –
  truong.pham(at)aalto.fi
• Oussama Bekkouche (with CSC)
  “Mobile Edge Computing”
  oussama.bekkouche(at)aalto.fi
• Aziza Zhanabatyrova
  “Crowdsensing-based mapping and localization for autonomous driving”
  11.2019 –
  zhanabatyrova.aziza(at)aalto.fi

Visiting Professors:

• Dr. Lina Maria Cardenas Bayona, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, April 2024
• Dr. Yaxi Liu, Beijing University of Science and Technology. Jan-August 2024
• Prof. Qingyuan Gong, Fudan University. October 2023.
• Prof. Ignacio Gali, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona Tech – UPC
  May 2022 (Erasmus + program)
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  Prof. Yang Chen, Fudan University
  August – September 2018, June – October 2019 (Nokia Visiting Professor)
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  Prof. Weixiong Rao, Tongji University
  August 2018
• 
  Prof. Yong Li, Tsinghua University
  July 2017

Academia collaborators:

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Research assistants and project workers:

• 2024: Ilona Mattila, Pia Johansson, Yu-Han Tseng, Yao Zhang, Jack Bergkulla, Henry Hsu, Sara Kutkova, Rojas Cayo Daniela, Pedro Vilaplana Lopez
• 2023: Yu-Han Tseng, Min Gao, Hui Ruan, Agustin Contreras
• 2022: Sofia Guridi, Hidde Grieg, Elina Onkinen, Jingting Ma, Esa Vikberg, Nguyen Phuong, Tim Moesgen, Kasper Lindberg, Ilpo Härkonen, Hanna-Maaria Sinkkonen, Olli Ruuskanen, Remy Montoir, Boxu Liu, Jiaming Yin, Yushan Liu
• 2021: Sofia Guridi, Pontus Lundström, Tim Moesgen, Laug Rasmus, Daniela Borgström, Mariela Urra Schiaffino, Erik Zuuring, Hsieh Wan-Ting, Ilpo Härkönen, Eero Tiainen, Ruo-Xuan Wu, Hidde Grieg, Elina Onkinen, Jingting Ma
• 2020: Sofia Guridi, Verneri Hirvonen, Ilpo Härkönen, Pontus Lundström, Antti Parviainen, Jasmine Xie, Kübra Kutlu, Ville Viinikka, Abbas Waqar, Joonatan Saarhelo, Maimuna Syed, Marcell Berta, Bruhn Thomas, Laug Rasmus, Tim Moesgen, Janne Salo, Daniela Borgström, Mariela Urra Schiaffino, Erik Zuuring
• 2019:Jasse Lahdenperä, Verneri Hirvonen, Xiuyang Li, Samuel Suikkanen, Aziza Zhanabatyrova, Ilpo Härkönen, Pontus Lundström, Krishna Karthikeyan, Antti Parviainen, Wencan Mao, Jiayun Zhang, Joonatan Saarhelo, Maimuna Syed, Marcell Berta, Bruhn Thomas, Jasmine Xie, Kübra Kutlu, Ville Viinikka
• 2018: Xuebing Li, Rong Xie, Tufail Muhammad,Jouni Ojala, Qinge Xie, Xiaolei Di, Verneri Hirvonen, Xiuyang Li, Samuel Suikkanen, Aziza Zhanabatyrova
• 2017: Tufail Muhammad, Jouni Ojala, Jonathan Granskog, Seyoung Park, Jiyao Hu

Alumni:

• Xuebing Li, doctoral student, 2020-2024
• Henry Mauranen, doctoral student, 2021-2024
• Esa Vikberg, doctoral student, 2022-2024
• Wencan Mao, doctoral student, 2019-2023
• Emmi Pouta, doctoral student, 2019-2023
• Tiina Lilja, business developer, 2022-2023
• Petr Byvshev, doctoral student, 2018-2022
• Riia-Leena Wallin, business developer, 2022
• Byungjin Cho, postdoc, 2019-2022
• Ozgur Akgul, postdoc, 2019-2022
• Giancarlo Pastor, postdoc, 2018-2021
• Guna Semjonova, visiting scholar, 2021-2022
• Ilpo Härkönen, project employee, 2019-2022
• Timo Sipponen, business developer, 2019-2022
• James Wen, postdoc, 2020-2021
• Chao Zhu, Doctoral student, 2016 – 2020
• Yuki Sato, Postdoc, 2017-2018|   |
• Marius Noreikis, Doctoral student, 2016 – 2019  | 
• Sandra Wirtanen, Textile designer, 2019
• Jihye Lee, Postdoc, 2018-2019
• Petri Nyman, Business developer, 2018-2020 
• Ondrej Spala, Business developer, 2018-2020 

Group photo, June 2019

Group photo, October 2018.