Jari Nurmi

Jari Nurmi is a professor of Digital and Computer Systems at Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

He has almost 20 years of background in research and development in the areas of

• Processor architectures,
• Networks-on-Chip, and
• DSP and communications applications.

Prof. Nurmi is the general chairman and main organizer of the annual International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC) (earlier known as “SoC Seminar”) in Tampere since 1999 and has held top positions in a few other conferences, too.

He is the author or co-author of over 130 international papers, co-editor of Kluwer book “ Interconnect-centric design for advanced SoC and NoC ”, and he is currently editing another book on processor design.

He was one of the recipients of Nokia Educational Award in 2004, and the recipient of Tampere Congress Award 2005.