Hang Nguyen (hang.nguyen@uef.fi)
Hang Nguyen is a Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) specializing in Intellectual Property (IP) Law. Currently, her research concerns farmers’ privileges in Vietnamese Law compared to the European Union (EU) Law. As an agricultural country, Vietnam’s IP agriculture-related regulations, such as plant variety and farmer’s privileges, are not very developed; meanwhile, these regulations are more advanced in the EU. The comparison between the EU and Vietnam shows what is missing and what can be applied to Vietnam laws. Also, this research points out the possibility to protect Vietnamese agriculture products under other regimes rather than plant variety such as certification marks, collective marks, geographic indications, etc.
Hang Nguyen is a Lecturer at the faculty of Civil Law – Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (HCMU Law), Vietnam. She teaches IP Law, Civil Law, Personal Rights for undergraduate and LL.M students at HCMU Law and other universities as a guest lecturer. She obtained her Master and Doctoral degrees at the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan. Her LL.D Dissertation and LL.M thesis were about comparative issues related to trademark laws among the United States, the EU, Japan, and Vietnam. She moved to Finland joined UEF because its Law School offers broad, wide, and profound courses on IP; it is possible to examine different fields related to IP, such as IP and Food/Food Fraud; IP and Internet or IP and International Trade.
Internationalization Ecosystem of North Karelian Forestbioeconomy and Unique Food – BIOSYS JAPAN
Krista Sutinen (krista.sutinen@uef.fi)
Coordinator in the Humanities: Cultural studies, English, Finnish for foreigners, French, Japanese, Karelian, Media culture and communication, Swedish and Teaching Finnish as L2 language.
Coordinator in Digistartti.
Course teacher in the study module of Ikävoimaa työhön (Work and organizational psychology).
Educator of online pedagogy.
Master of Administration (Administration, especially Leadership of Psychology)
Master of Education
Bachelor of Theology
Markku Hauta-Kasari (markku.hauta-kasari@uef.fi)
Markku Hauta-Kasari received his MSc in computer science from the University of Kuopio, Finland, in 1994 and his PhD in information processing from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, in 1999. Since 1999 he has been working in research and teaching positions in computer science at the University of Eastern Finland. From 1996 to 1998 he was a visiting researcher at Professor Toyooka’s Optical Sensing Laboratory, Saitama University, Japan. In 2002 he was 2 months as a visiting researcher at Professor Miyake’s laboratory in Chiba University, Japan, and in 2007 one month as a visiting Professor at the National Museum of Japanese History, Japan. In 2003 – 2010, he was the Director of InFotonics Center Joensuu research center at the University of Joensuu. Currently, he is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Eastern Finland. He is the head of the Spectral Color Research Group. His research interest include spectral color research, pattern recognition and computer vision. He is a member of the Optical Society of Japan, and the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland. He is a past chairman of the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland (2003 – 2006) and past chairman of the CIE Technical Committee TC8-07 “Multispectral imaging” (2008 – 2011). In 2014-2021 he was the Head of the School of Computing at the University of Eastern Finland. Since 2022, he is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science and Forestry.
Mikko Vastaranta (mikko.vastaranta@uef.fi)
Dr. Mikko Vastaranta is a professor in digitalization and knowledge leadership in forest-based bioeconomy at the University of Eastern Finland’s School of Forest Sciences. He earned his M. Sc (2007) and PhD (2012) in forest resource science and technology from the University of Helsinki, where he also holds an adjunct professorship in remote sensing of forests. He has held positions as a research scientist at the Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research, university lecturer in forest planning (University of Helsinki), visiting research scientists at the Pacific Forestry Centre (Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada), and visiting professor at Shinshu University (Japan). His research focuses on examining nature-human-technology interactions using geoinformation science-based technologies and methods. Vastaranta has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and his recent publications can be found on Google Scholar.
Tatu Lajunen (tatu.lajunen@uef.fi)
Tatu got his PhD in Pharmacy from University of Helsinki in 2016. He works on drug delivery to challenging target sites, for example posterior segment of the eye, tumors and central nervous system. Tatu has diverse international research background through working in Santen Pharmaceuticals in Japan as well as Kyoto University and Tokyo University of Pharmacy & Life Sciences. He holds a shared position in University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland. The current focus of his research is the utilization of nanoparticle drug delivery systems for targeted treatment of diseases with biomacromolecules. With the help of his international network of collaborators, the work continues to progress the field towards better medications.
Tomi Kinnunen (tomi.kinnunen@uef.fi)
Tomi H. Kinnunen is a Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Joensuu in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was an associate scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore. Since 2007, he has been with UEF. In 2010-2012, he was funded by a post-doctoral grant from Academy of Finland focusing on speaker recognition. He has been a PI or co-PI in three other large Academy of Finland funded projects on speaker recognition and voice anti-spoofing, and a partner in H2020-funded OCTAVE project focusing on voice biometrics for physical and logical access control. He chaired Odyssey 2014 workshop and served as an associate editor in Digital Signal Processing. From 2015 to 2018, he served as an associate editor in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and from 2016 to 2018 as a Subject Editor in Speech Communication. Between 2015 and 2016 he visited 6 months at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, under a mobility grant from Academy of Finland, with focus on voice conversion and spoofing. Since 2017, he has been Associate Professor at UEF, where he leads Computational Speech Group (https://www.uef.fi/web/speech). He is known as one of the co-founders of ASVspoof challenge (www.asvspoof.org), a non-profit initiate that seeks to evaluate and improve security of voice biometric solutions under spoofing attacks.
Research interests:
– Speaker and language recognition (in wide sense; includes automatic and perceptual methods)
– Spoofing and countermeasures for speaker recognition
– Voice transformation
– Application of my research to other bioacoustic signals