Nokia Scholarships 2012

Nokia Scholarships 2012

Nokia Foundation allocated a total of 411 300 Euros for the grants this year. Foundation awarded grants for 73 Nokia Scholarships, three Visiting Professors, one Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair, and one Nokia Foundation Award. Foundation received a total of 279 grant applications for the Nokia Scholarships.

Nokia Foundation Award and Grant Receivers and Nokia Foundation Board in the Awards Ceremony 2012.

Recipients of Nokia Foundation Scholarship

November 27, 2012

Aflaki Beni, Payman
Topic: Asymmetric stereoscopic 3D video compression
Grant: 5000 €
Alahdab, Salim
Topic: A High Resolution Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) Based On a Cyclic Time Domain Successive Approximation Interpolation Method for All Digital Frequency Synthesis
Grant: 5000 €
Anteroinen, Johanna Katariina
Topic: Electrical Properties and Applications of Graphene Devices
Grant: 5000 €
Ashraf, Adnan
Topic: Cost-Efficient Resource Allocation for Multi-tier Web Applications in a Cloud Environment
Grant: 5000 €
Bhattacharya, Sourav
Topic: Enriching Sensor Data on Mobile Platform - A Machine Learning Approach
Grant: 5000 €
Chang, Zheng
Topic: Energy and Spectral Efficient Solutions for OFDMA Wireless Networks
Grant: 5000 €
Cochez, Michael Serge Lia
Topic: Application of evolutionary computing in the context of ontology optimization
Grant: 5000 €
Costa, Mário
Topic: Efficient Signal Processing Techniques for Smart Multi-Antenna Systems
Grant: 5000 €
Cui, Yanqing
Topic: Social Networking Services on Mobile Devices: User Interface Designs and User Experience Studies
Grant: 5000 €
Dahlberg, Krista Hannele
Topic: Measurements and characterisation of millimeter wave Schottky diodes
Grant: 5000 €
DING, Yi (Aaron)
Topic: Enabling Efficient and Collaborative Traffic Management for Mobile Systems
Grant: 5000 €
Ebrahimi, Masoumeh
Topic: Robust on-Chip Interconnect Network using Learning Approaches
Grant: 5000 €
Ekman, Inger Margareta
Topic: Game Sound Design
Grant: 5000 €
Farhan, Muhammad
Topic: Signal and Image Processing Methods for Systems Biology
Grant: 5000 €
Ferdinand, Nuwan Suresh
Topic: Analyze and design of cooperative networks
Grant: 5000 €
Goncalves, Jorge André
Topic: Designing Technology to Foster Participation in the Wild
Grant: 5000 €
Grönroos, Stefan Andreas
Topic: Efficient Algorithms for Reconfigurable Software-Based Multimedia Delivery Platforms
Grant: 5000 €
Hadaytullah, Hadaytullah
Topic: Genetically self-adaptive software systems
Grant: 5000 €
Heinimäki, Teemu Johannes
Topic: Improving Game AI Quality
Grant: 5000 €
Heittola, Toni Kristian
Topic: Methods for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis and Synthesis
Grant: 5000 €
Holmbom, Annika Helena
Topic: Customer Segmentation with Data Mining Methods - from vast amount of data to actual knowledge
Grant: 5000 €
Hyrynsalmi, Sami Tapani
Topic: Emergence of Digital Software Marketplaces
Grant: 5000 €
JACOB MATHECKEN, PHILIP JOHN PRAMOD
Topic: Study of RF-Impairments in Modern Telecommunication Systems: Analysis and Compensation Techniques
Grant: 5000 €
Jokhio, Fareed Ahmed
Topic: Video transcoding with parallel and distributed computation
Grant: 5000 €
Joshi, Satya Krishna
Topic: Radio resource management in wireless communication networks - from the optimal (centralized) solution towards distributed implementations
Grant: 5000 €
Juliano Nardelli, Pedro Henrique
Topic: Spatial Spectral Efficiency in Wireless Networks
Grant: 5000 €
Juvonen, Antti
Topic: Data mining solutions for enhancing network data security
Grant: 5000 €
Kallio, Mikko Aleksi
Topic: Real­-world applications of randomization methods in data mining
Grant: 5000 €
Kamali, Maryam
Topic: Formal Methods for the Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks
Grant: 5000 €
Kanth, Rajeev Kumar
Topic: Analysis, Design and Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Antenna
Grant: 5000 €
Karhila, Reima
Topic: Adaptation of Statistical Speech Synthesis Using Suboptimal Data
Grant: 5000 €
Katsigiannis, Michail
Topic: The evolution of radio access networks: Economical insights for Finnish mobile operators
Grant: 5000 €
Kaufman, Brett
Topic: ANALOG AND DIGITAL TECHNIQUES OF SELF-INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION
Grant: 5000 €
Kaur, Puneet
Topic: Open Service Innovation for Digital Services
Grant: 5000 €
Khatun, Afroza
Topic: Advanced Scanning Techniques for Field Synthesis and Near-field Antenna Measurements
Grant: 5000 €
Kuusinen, Antti Veikko Olavi
Topic: Perception of music in performance spaces - Search for the best acoustics
Grant: 5000 €
Lagerspetz, Eemil Henrik
Topic: Context-aware Collaborative Energy Efficiency Solutions
Grant: 5000 €
Laine, Markku Pekka Mikael
Topic: Unified Web Application Development: A Presentation-Centric Approach Based on Declarative Languages
Grant: 5000 €
Leinonen, Markus Kristian
Topic: Distributed Cross-layer Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Grant: 5000 €
Levä, Tapio
Topic: Diffusion of communication protocols in the Internet
Grant: 5000 €
Liyanage, Lakmal Madhusanka
Topic: Performance cost of security in future telecommunication networks
Grant: 5000 €
Maglyas, Andrey
Topic: Overcoming complexity of software product management
Grant: 5000 €
Mahmood, Aamir
Topic: Enabling Time Synchronized and Interference-Aware Initialization of Wireless Sensor Networks
Grant: 5000 €
Niemelä, Ville Johannes
Topic: Enabling future Wireless Healthcare Systems
Grant: 5000 €
Niittynen, Juha
Topic: Performance and reliability of printable electronics
Grant: 5000 €
Nikou, Shahrokh
Topic: Opening the black-box of IT artifacts: looking into mobile service characteristics and individual perception
Grant: 5000 €
Nygren, Eeva Liisa
Topic: Increasing motivation towards mathematics through educational games
Grant: 5000 €
Nyländen, Teemu Ilmari
Topic: Energy Efficient Signal Processing Hardware Implementations for Future Wireless Systems
Grant: 5000 €
Oksanen, Jan Henrik Salomo
Topic: Spectrun sensing and access policies for cognitive radio
Grant: 5000 €
Pepe, Antonietta
Topic: Computational models and mathematical representations of 3D shapes
Grant: 5000 €
Pereverzeva, Inna
Topic: Formal Development of Resilient Autonomic Distributed Systems
Grant: 5000 €
Pervilä, Mikko Antti Tapani
Topic: Data Center Energy Retrofits
Grant: 5000 €
Pettersson, Ville Hermanni
Topic: Graph Algorithms for Routing and Domination problems
Grant: 5000 €
Pouke, Matti Reijo Juhani
Topic: Activity Data Visualisation in 3D Virtual Environments
Grant: 5000 €
Putaala, Jussi Mikael
Topic: Reliability of electronics interconnections and their prognostic monitoring methods in novel applications
Grant: 5000 €
Raitoharju, Matti Samuli
Topic: Mathematical methods for indoor positioning
Grant: 5000 €
Rasilo, Heikki Ville Tapani
Topic: Creating an articulatory model and a speech acquisition mechanism for a learning virtual infant, LeVI
Grant: 5000 €
Rezaei, Mohammad
Topic: Clustering of location-based data
Grant: 5000 €
Ruotsalainen, Laura Maria
Topic: Visual-aided navigation in smartphones for challenging GNSS signal environments
Grant: 5000 €
Salo, Markus
Topic: Explaining Extreme Experiences of Mobile Interaction with the Real World
Grant: 5000 €
Sarlin, Peter Sebastian Johan
Topic: Financial Stability Surveillance with Computational Intelligence
Grant: 5000 €
Sipola, Tuomo Severi
Topic: Spectral signature extraction from high-dimensional manifolds
Grant: 4000 €
Syeed, M.M. Mahbubul
Topic: Comprehending co-evolution of Open Source Software (OSS) Projects: Analytical methods and tool support
Grant: 3500 €
Tamrakar, Sandeep
Topic: New Applications of Mobile Trusted Computing and NFC
Grant: 5000 €
Tchamov, Nikolay Nikolaev
Topic: Optimization of OFDM receivers in the presence of phase noise
Grant: 5000 €
Thombre, Sarang
Topic: Test-bench for Automated Testing of GNSS Receivers
Grant: 5000 €
van Heeswijk, Mark
Topic: Scalable Machine Learning Algorithms on Massively Parallel Architectures
Grant: 5000 €
Venkatraman, Ganesh
Topic: Resource Allocation for Users in LTE - A systems
Grant: 5000 €
Vilkamo, Juha Tapio
Topic: Advanced adaptive perceptual spatial sound processing methods
Grant: 5000 €
Vuorela, Samu Jeremias
Topic: Determining, analysing and system-level modelling of the reliability of power supplies for LED applications
Grant: 5000 €
Wagner, Paul Juha
Topic: Unifications in reinforcement learning, with applications to humanoid virtual actor design
Grant: 5000 €
Wei, Lu
Topic: Spectrum Management for Future Wireless Systems
Grant: 5000 €
Xiaohua, Huang
Topic: Emotion recognition from facial expressions for affective human-computer interaction
Grant: 5000 €