The Team
Staff and Researchers
Juha Plosila
Dr. Juha Plosila is a Professor in the field of Autonomous Systems and Robotics at the University of Turku (UTU), Department of Future Technologies, Finland. He received a PhD degree in Electronics and Communication Technology from UTU in 1999. He is the head of the EIT Digital Master Programme in Embedded Systems at the EIT Digital Master School (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), and is a member in the Node Strategy Committee of the EIT Digital Helsinki/Finland node. (Researchgate)
Email: juplos@utu.fi
Hashem Haghbayan
Adjunct Processor (Docent), Department of Computing
Hahsem received a BA degree in computer engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, an MSc degree in computer architecture from University of Tehran, Iran, and Ph.D. with honor from University of Turku, Finland. Since 2022 he is an Adjunct Professor (Docent) and lecturer at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include high-performance energy-efficient architectures for autonomous systems and artificial intelligence. He has several years of experience working in industry, developing algorithms for automation and designing IP cores. (Researchgate)
Email: mohhag@utu.fi
Golnaz Sahebi
Doctoral Student, Department of Computing
Research interests: Solving multi-objective problems by applying meta-heuristic optimization methods, machine learning, deep learning, and parallel computing in the safe navigation of swarm of autonomous drones and medical analytics. (Researchgate)
Email: golnaz.sahebi@utu.fi
Sajad Shahsavari
Doctoral Candidate, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Research interests: Deep neural networks, time-series prediction, reinforcement learning and data analysis. (Researchgate)
Email: sajad.s.shahsavari@utu.fi
Masoomeh Karami
Doctoral Student, Department of Computing
Research interests: Design methodologies for embedded systems, in particular focusing fault tolerance and reliability issues, runtime resource management in homogeneous multi-core systems. (Researchgate)
Email: masoomeh.m.karami@utu.fi
Amir Ijaz
Doctoral Researcher, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Email: amir.ijaz@utu.fi
Miika Kolu
Doctoral Student, Department of Computing
Research interests: Computer vision, deep learning, representation learning, and cognitive computing.
Email: miika.p.kolu@utu.fi
Henri Sulo
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Computing
Huma Mahboob
Doctoral Student, The Commons of the Department of Computing
Research interests: Unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, XAI, and complexity reduction.
Email: huma.mahboob@utu.fi
Diluna Adeesha
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Computing
Research interests: Developmental robotics, digital factory
Email: dawarn@utu.fi
Chen Wu
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Computing
Research interests: Resource Management of Mobile Robot, Autonomous System, Embedded System
Email: chenwu@utu.fi
Research Assistants and TRAINEES
Afrooz Naseri
Research Interests: Autonomous system, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Non-Linear control systems, Machine Learning, Data Science
Email: afrooz.a.naseri@utu.fi
Aman Manishbhai Vyas
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Deep learning for robotics, Visual Odomerty, Visual Slam
Email: amvyas@utu.fi
Suvi Jokinen
Research interests: Unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and swarm intelligence, embedded systems, and collision avoidance.
Email: ssjoki@utu.fi
Alumni
Ph.D. Information and Communication Technology, 2023
Doctor of Science in Technology (DSc. Tech.), 2023
Ph.D. Information and Communication Technology, 2022
Ph.D. Information and Communication Technology, 2019
UTU-FUDAN Master’s degree, 2019