Category: News

Greetings from the Winter Satellite Workshop 2026!

Heidi Kuusniemi presented the SpacEconomy project at the Winter Satellite Workshop (WSW), which brought together approximately 2,300 participants. The event featured an EXPO area with around 50 stands, where research organizations, companies, and educational institutions showcased their work, networked, and explored new innovation opportunities.

Tampere University researchers featured in top 6G ISAC article – published in the Proceedings of the IEEE: 2025 Highlights and What’s Next”

The article “The Integrated Sensing and Communication Revolution for 6G: Vision, Techniques, and Applications” has been selected for Inside Proceedings of the IEEE: 2025 Highlights and What’s Next, which showcases the year’s most visible and cited IEEE publications. The list includes highly influential research across fields from artificial intelligence and edge computing to 6G wireless networks.

[FI] Satelliittitekniikka on tulevaisuuden ala – Tampereen yliopisto kouluttaa ja tutkii alan huipulla

Tampereen yliopisto kouluttaa uuden sukupolven langattoman viestinnän ja paikannuksen asiantuntijoita sekä tekee kansainvälisesti arvostettua tutkimusta satelliittipaikannuksen, signaalinkäsittelyn ja avaruusteknologian ytimessä.

Professor Heidi Kuusniemi, specialised in geospatial technology and satellite navigation, joins Tampere University

Heidi Kuusniemi will start as a Professor of Wireless Systems at Tampere University on 1 August 2025. Before taking on this position, she served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vaasa, leading the research on geospatial technology and satellite positioning, also acting as the coordinating Professor for Digital Economy, a multi-disciplinary research platform. She has also worked as a part-time Research Professor in satellite navigation at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute of the National Land Survey of Finland. Kuusniemi brings with her strong expertise in satellite positioning, interference mitigation and smart wireless systems.

Tampere University Contributing to a More Sustainable 6G Future in the RF ECO3 Project

A consortium of major Finnish industrial and academic stakeholders has launched a new project to accelerate the development of technologies and radio frequency (RF) design related to the evolution from 5G to 6G networks.

Roman Klus and Team Win Best Paper Award at IEEE PIMRC 2024 for Advances in ML-Based Localization

'Future 6G NTN Systems' Challenge winner: "Enhancing HAP Networks with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces," ICCSPA’24

Ayush Kumar Dwivedi and the team's innovative approach integrates Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces with high-altitude platforms, setting a new standard for future 6G communication networks

Millimeter-Wave Radio SLAM: 60 GHz Indoor Sensing Dataset

A new openly available dataset of beamformed millimeter-Wave radio measurements (at 60 GHz) has been published in IEEE Dataport

New coalition to promote development of future 6G technology — Tampere University participates in 6G Finland collaboration entity

The most relevant Finnish research institutes and companies doing 6G research and development founded a national coalition to advance Finland’s competitiveness in 6G. The new coalition, 6G Finland, aims to intensify national 6G cooperation and increase the impact of Finnish 6G expertise globally.

Research Assistant, 8-16 positions (Electrical Engineering, summer jobs)/ Tutkimusapulainen 8-16 tehtävää (Sähkötekniikka, kesätyö)

Tampere University Electrical Engineering unit at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences offers summer intern positions (Research Assistant positions). Research Assistants work on interesting research topics in the research groups related to different branches of Electrical Engineering, namely 1) Electronics and Embedded Systems, 2) Communications Engineering and Radio Systems, and 3) Smart-Grid Technology and Electromechanics.

Jaakko Marin wins 2021 Master’s Thesis Award

Jaakko Marin (29) from Tampere University has received an award for the best master’s thesis written in the field of engineering in 2021 from Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK and the Tekniska Föreningen i Finland TFiF. In his thesis, Marin developed a system which, for example, enables public authorities to prevent the use of drones that are a threat to safety. TEK and TFiF also granted a Doctoral Dissertation Award and Master’s Thesis Awards in non-engineering fields.

World’s first non-cellular 5G technology approved internationally – Tampere University contributed to the standard development

Tampere University researchers have, together with Wirepas, been involved in developing a new connectivity standard for 5G Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The Radiocommunications Sector (ITU-R) of the International Telecommunications Union adopted DECT-2020 New Radio (NR) as the first non-cellular 5G technology to be part of the 5G standard family in October.