Tapani Ryhänen Head of Strategic Research, Nokia Research Center

Tapani Ryhänen is the Head of Multimedia Devices Research at Nokia Research
Center. He is leading the strategic research activities in the areas of future user
interfaces, mobile video systems, future digital home, multimedia device architectures,
mechanics and miniaturization. The work is targeting to future device concepts and
architectures as well as to key enabling technologies.

His work at
Nokia has also covered sensor technologies and applications, wellness and health
applications, ambient intelligence, RF MEMS, micro- and nanotechnologies, architectures
and interfaces of peripheral devices, such as sensor modules and mass storage solutions.

Tapani received his M.Sc. in Technical Physics in 1986 and his Ph.D.
in Electronics in 1992 from the Helsinki University of Technology. He joined Nokia
in 1995. Tapani has authored over 60 publications and has nine patents.