Kari Pulli is Research Fellow and heads the Visual Computing and Ubiquitous Imaging research team at Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California. His team is working on various aspects of imaging, from image recognition and augmented reality to computational photography.

Kari joined Nokia in 1999, and during his time at Nokia he has led many graphics research activities. He used to head Nokia’s graphics technology and mobile 3D standardization work, about which he recently wrote a book (Mobile 3D Graphics with OpenGL ES and M3G, Morgan Kaufmann, 2007). He is Nokia’s main representative at Khronos. In 2004 he moved to the research center, was a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004-06, after which he moved to Palo Alto.

Before joining Nokia Kari worked as a research associate at Stanford University and was the technical leader of the Digital Michelangelo project. He also worked briefly at SGI, Alias|Wavefront, and Microsoft.

Kari holds a PhD in graphics and surface reconstruction from University of Washington (1997) and MBA from University of Oulu (2001). He is also a docent at the University of Oulu, and has authored numerous academic papers.

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