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Jyri Huopaniemi is Head of Mobile Applications Research at Nokia Research Center, responsible for strategic research in new applications, services and software platforms. He received his doctoral degree from Helsinki University of Technology in 1999.

Jyri studied acoustics and audio signal processing, multimedia and information technology at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), and received his M.Sc., Lic. Tech., and D.Sc. (Tech) degrees in electrical and communications engineering in 1995, 1997 and 1999, respectively. Prior to joining Nokia in 1998 he conducted research on multimedia signal processing at Stanford University and Helsinki University of Technology.

Jyri is the author or co-author of over 55 technical articles published in international journals and conferences, and he has been awarded four patents. He was one of the leading contributors to the MPEG-4 audio scene description and rendering standardization during 1997-2000, and he has headed three mobile media standardization efforts in the Java Community Process.