Since joining Nokia in 1995, Péter has contributed to several key areas of innovation including spoken dialogue systems, language technology, multimodality, advanced man-machine interfaces and more recently, device-centric wireless sensor networks. He is a Principal Scientist and a Research Team Leader at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto laboratory.

Péter received his M.Sc.E.E. degree in Telecommunications and Telematics from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary and after post-graduate studies in Finland and the Netherlands, his Licentiate of Technology degree on speech technology from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. In his focus are advanced user interface solutions where contextual and sensor information provide a better understanding of the user's intention. While on sabbatical at MIT's Spoken Language Systems Group, he has been working on a multimodal statistical integration mechanisms with a wider scope than mere fusion of the actual user input modalities. As a Team Leader of the Social and Physical Proximity Interactions team, he is heading a number of researchers aiming to provide better interaction means for bridging physical proximity relations and virtual social environments.

Péter has more than 20 publications at international conferences and workshops, and regularly participates to program and organizing committees. He is the owner and co-owner of five patents.

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