Mika Tarvainen Homepage

Mika Tarvainen, Ph.D., Docent Senior Researcher Biosignal Analysis and Medical Imaging Group (http://bsamig.uku.fi) Department of Applied Physics (http://www.uef.fi/fysmat) University of Eastern Finland (UEF) (http://www.uef.fi) Phone: +358 40 355 2369 Room: G5-008 (CENTEK-building) Email: mika.tarvainen(at)uef.fi

Degrees and qualification

• Docent on Medical signal analysis and physiological modelling, University of Kuopio, Finland, 1 May 2008
• Ph.D., University of Kuopio, 18 June 2004. PhD thesis: "Estimation Methods for Nonstationary Biosignals"
• M.Sc., University of Kuopio, 4 November 1999. MSc thesis: "Electrical Impedance Tomography with Internal Power Sources (In Finnish)"

Research topics

Biomedical signal analysis, time series and spectrum estimation methods, time-varying and nonlinear techniques, multivariate modeling, physiological modeling.

Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis - Kubios HRV software (http://kubios.uku.fi)

Teaching and supervision experience

Teaching

• Medical Signal analysis course, University of Kuopio/UEF (Jan 2006, Mar 2010)<7li>
• Signal Analysis course, University of Kuopio (Jan 2007, Sep 2007, Dec 2008, Oct 2010)
• Time-Series Analysis course (exercises), University of Kuopio (Sep 2002, Feb 2005)
• Supervisor of Physics laboratory works, University of Kuopio, (2000-2004)

Supervision

• Primary supervisor of 1 Ph.D. thesis and 2 M.Sc. theses
• Secondary supervisor of 7 Ph.D theses and 1 M.Sc. thesis

Publications

• 27 articles in scientific journals with referee practice
• 2 book chapters
• 34 articles in conference proceedings with referee practice
• 16 conference abstracts

Biosignal Analysis and Medical Imaging Group Publications

Major grants

• Academy of Finland, postdoctoral researcher's project (project no: 126873): "Cardiovascular signal analysis methods for monitoring human wellbeing", 1.1.2009-31.12.2011 (195 450 &euro)

Other activities

• Associate Editor for IST Transactions of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
• Review Editor for Frontiers in Clinical and Translational Physiology
• Associate Editor for 28th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'06) and session chair at EMBC'06 and EMBC'08.
• Referee in 13 scientific journals from the field of biomedical engineering and signal processing
• Secretary of the Finnish Society of Medical Physics and Medical Engineering (1.1.2007 - )

...and one major personal hobby: