Partners

• Born in 1962
• Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), 1987
• Doctor of Technology (Dr.sc.techn. in Civil Engineering), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), 1996

More than 10 years experience in the demanding tasks of leading expert teams, project management, and quality management. Several years of experience in business administration and management.

Work Experience:

• Managing director, Atostek Oy, 2000 -
• Quality manager, Viacon Oy, 1997-1999
• Researcher, ETH Zurich, Institute of Structural Engineering, 1993-1996
• Project manager, Tampereen Siltatekniikka Oy, 1990-1992
• Bridge design engineer, A-Insinöörit Oy, 1987-1990

Administration Experience:

• Board member of Atostek Oy, 1999 -
• Board member of Juvenes Oy, 1987
• Board member of TUT, 1986
• Board member of the Student Union of TUT, 1985-1986

Special knowledge in founding and running up an engineering company, leading expert teams, including human resources management, recruiting and knowledge development, project management and quality management.

Areas of technical specialization: mechanics of structures, bridge design, fatigue and endurance problems of structures.

• Born in 1962
• Master of Science in Electronics Engineering, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), 1988
• Licentiate in Technology (Lic.Tech. in E.E), TUT, 1992
• Doctor of Technology, (Dr.Tech. in E.E), TUT, 1995

More than 10 years of academic experience in research, education, and leadership. 10 years other experience, including industrial research, development, and management. Over 100 international scientific publications.

Work Experience:

• Managing Director, Staselog Ltd, 2002-
• Professor of Digital Techniques, TUT, 1997-2002
• Senior Researcher, Nokia Research Center, 1995-1997
• Designer, Nokia Consumer Electronics, Bochum, 1993-1995
• Researcher, CERN, Geneva, 1992-1993
• Researcher, TUT, 1988-1992

Administration Experience:

• Board Member, Staselog Oy, 2002-
• Docent of Digital Techniques, TUT, 2002-
• Chairman of the Board, Atostek Oy, 1999-

Qualified for professor in areas of digital and computer systems, signal processing, electronics, and telecommunication. Has lead more than 10 research and development projects, funded by Tekes, EU, Nokia and other industry.

Technical design experience

Microelectronics: integrated analog and digital circuit design at TUT and Nokia
Electronics: hardware and software implementations of neural networks at TUT
Signal processing: applying non-linear digital filters to colour images at TUT; algorithm and software design for linear and non-linear digital filters at CERN
Telecommunications: hardware implementation of error correction coding for satellite digital video broadcasting at Nokia; WLAN channel equalizer design at Nokia.

Topics of research projects

Microelectronics: CMOS process model parameter development for Spice-simulator
Electronics: laser image projector development; fast prototyping using FPGAs; dynamically configurable digital electronics
Digital and computer systems: parallel architectures for video coding(MPEG, H263); MPEG audio decoder using RISC processor; analysis and simulation of DRAM memories; multimedia implementations on PC using MMX
Signal processing: software for improving digital X-ray images using Wavelet; developing a WLAN indoor positioning system with Kalman-filtering
Telecommunications: developing a low cost WLAN base station architecture; implementing a precise and low cost WLAN indoor positioning system; implementing data acquisition with Bluetooth connection as an embedded system; implementing data acquisition with LON network connection as an embedded system; using USB in hospital environment; developing digital base band processing architectures for GSM and WCDMA; digital signal generators and modulator architecture development in VLSI.

• Born in 1975
• Master of Science in Information Technology, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), 2000

More than 7 years of experience in software specification, design, and implementation.

Work Experience:

• Chief engineer, Atostek Oy, 2000 -
• Software designer, Avasta Transactions/Stonesoft Plc, 1999 - 200
• Teaching assistant, TUT, 2000 -
• Research assistant, Digital media institute, TUT, 1999 - 2000

Administration Experience:

Board Member, Atostek Oy, 1999 -

Sofware Design:

Implementation of tailored software systems: gathering of requirements, writing specifications and reviewing them with the customer, designing and scheduling of software implementation, software testing, installation, and support. Project management, coordination and supervision of software projects.

Demanding Software Design Tasks:

Making of feasibility studies. Implementation of mathematical, signal processing, and image processing algorithms. Fast implementations using MMX and SIMD instruction sets.

Research and Education:

Presentations, e.g. Automaatio 03 and Automaatio 05 Seminar Days (Helsinki, Finland). Also presentations for industrial companies and public institutions. Topics including transfer and manipulation of video stream, technical tools for system integration. Teaching assistant at Tampere University of Technology.

• Born in 1977
• Master of Science in Digital and Computer Technology, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), 2002

Work Experience:

• Software engineer, Atostek Oy, 2001-
• Software engineer assistant, Harman Motive, Inc, 2000
• Research assistant TTKK, Institute of Digital and Computer Systems, 1999-2000

Techniques:

• Programming languages: C#, LabVIEW, C++ (Windows, Unix), C (embedded system), Java, Assembly, Prolog, Delphi
• Operating system: Windows -98, 2000, XP and Linux
• Web-development: HTML, CSS , PHP, Javascript
• Other: XML, ActiveX
• Certificates: CLD (Certified LabVIEW developer)

• Application areas: signal and image processing, video processing, machine vision applications, user interfaces, neural networks and artificial intelligence.
  
  Wide multimedia expertise in pattern recognition and video compression belong to Sarviluoma's special skills.

He has experience in project scheduling and specifying the customer requirements, development of image processing and machine vision algorithms. Sarviluoma has been project manager in several projects that successfully delivered a working machine vision solution to the customer. Sarviluoma also has extensive experience in technical consulting.

• Born in 1977
• Master of Science in Information Technology, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), 2002

Work Experience:

• Project Manager, Atostek Oy, 2000-
• Software engineer, Atostek Oy, 2000-2002
• Research assistant, NCSU/Img Lab, 2000
• System administrator, North Carolina State University (NCSU)/Soil science department, 1999-2000
• Software engineer, Nokia Telecommunications, 1998-1999

Techniques:

• Programming languages: C++ (Windows, unix), C (unix, embedded system), assembler (embedded system), Java (application, applet, JDBC), LISP (symbolic computation, artificial intelligence), Object Pascal (Delphi)
• User interferences: OpenGL (computer graphics), WinAPI/GDI, Java/Swing
• Databases: SQL/relation databases:PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Micro controllers: Motorola HC11, Motorola Mcore 2107
• Web-developement: XML/XSLT, HTML, Javascript, PHP, CGI
• Others: DICOM (medical solutions), OMT (planning technique) UML (modelling technique)

Expertise:

• Medical Imaging
• Experience in system design

Publications:

• Medical Imaging Data Representation with DICOM-XML
• Challenges for Data-Exchange in PET-Research

• Born in 1974
• Master of Science in Information Technology, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), 1999
• Doctor of Technology, (Dr.Tech. in Computer Science), TUT, 2006

Work Experience:

• Software engineer, Atostek Oy, 2005-
• Software engineering specialist, Atostek Oy, 2001-2005
• Research scientist: software implementations of signal processing algorithms, Tampere University of Technology (TUT)2001-2005
• Part-time network administrator, administration and development of Internet infrastructure and Unix-servers 2000-2005
• Research scientist/lecturer, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Digital Media Institute, 1997-2001
• Network administrator, TT-Tieto Oy, 1997
• Software engineer, TN-Systems Oy, 1995, 1996

Techniques:

• Programming languages: C/C++/C#, Java, Haskell, Perl, Python, PHP, Ada, VHDL, Lisp, several assembly languages
• Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Operating systems: Linux, Solaris, Windows NT/XP
• Application areas: Embedded systems, programming language and compiler technology, signal processing, telecommunications, digital hardware design

Topics of Research and Development Projects:

• Implementation techniques for signal processing software: Development of programming language and compiler technology at TUT.
  
• Automated Testing of Reactive Systems: Research on the testing and verification techniques for concurrent systems.
  
• Laboratory hardware for embedded systems: Development of a hardware platform for the teaching of MSc courses on embedded systems at TUT.