Bob Iannucci Senior Vice President, Head of Nokia Research Center Nokia Download picture in high resolution

Bob Iannucci is Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center, Nokia's corporate research unit. Interacting closely with all Nokia business groups, Nokia Research Center is responsible for the strategic and long-term research in Nokia. Operating in six countries, the center employs about 1000 researchers.

Bob joined Nokia in 2004 as Head of Nokia Research Center's Computing Architectures Laboratory. He holds B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA; M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, New York, USA; and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Bob has extensive experience in running both research and development activities in the fields of computing architectures, human-computer interaction, Internet, handheld computing, wireless technology networking systems. Previously, he held positions of Senior Vice President of Engineering at Cosine Communications, Vice President of Research at Compaq Computer Corporation, Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder of Exa Corporation, as well as various research and development roles at IBM Corporation.

Bob is the author and co-author of two books and several academic papers. He has five patents.