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UBISS 2020 calls for students to study IoT, VR, digital fabrication and robotics – apply now!

UBICOMP will host UBISS 2020 (11th International UBI Summer School 2020) in Oulu on June 8-13, 2020. UBISS 2020 comprises of four parallel 6-day “hands on” workshops (intensive courses worth 5 ECTS): A: SMART INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY IN 5G AND BEYOND Professor Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark Dr. Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Aalborg University, Denmark Dr. Federico Chiariotti, Aalborg…

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European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference 2019 co-hosted by UBICOMP

The 2019 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2019) took place on the 26th and 27th of November, at the University of Oulu Finland, and was co-hosted by general chairs Dr. Panos Kostakos and Dr. Mourad Oussalah, from UBICOMP and CMVS research units, respectively. EISIC, the Premier European Conference on Counterterrorism and Criminology, presents the best of current Intelligence and Security Informatics research…

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3 NOKIA scholarships awarded to UBICOMP members

Elina Kuosmanen and Abhinay Pandya (top row, 11th and 13th from the right, respectively), at the Nokia Scholarship Award Ceremony at Helsinki Pörssitalo, November 28th 2019. Three doctoral students from the Center for Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP)- Elina Kuosmanen, Jonas Oppenlaender and Abhinay Pandya– have each been the recipients of a Nokia Scholarship from the Nokia Foundation. The Nokia Scholarship is intended…

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Elina Kuosmanen, UBICOMP, is awarded by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation

Elina Kuosmanen, doctoral student at the UBICOMP unit has been the recipient of a grant by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation for her research work on the use of technology towards Parkinson’s disease management. Elina’s research target is to find ways to use technology to support Parkinson’s patients daily life and manage the disease treatment, for example, by screening the motor…

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