Rate My Professor Ville Viikari

Ville Viikari is Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering in the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University, a position he has held since August 2023 for the term until December 2025. He leads the radio technology research group and has been a faculty member at Aalto since 2012, starting as Assistant Professor and advancing to full Professor. Previously, from 2007 to 2012, he worked as Research Scientist and then Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre in Espoo, Finland, where his research focused on wireless sensors, RFID, radar applications, MEMS, and microwave sensors. From 2001 to 2007, he was at the Radio Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology (now part of Aalto University), investigating antenna measurement techniques at submillimeter wavelengths and antenna pattern correction techniques. Viikari earned his Master's degree in Engineering and Technology from Helsinki University of Technology in March 2004, Licentiate degree in April 2006, and Doctoral degree in May 2007.

His current research interests include antennas for mobile devices and networks, antenna clusters and coupled arrays, RF-powered devices, and antenna measurement techniques. Viikari has garnered significant recognition for his contributions, including the AMTA 2005 Student Paper Award, Best Presentation by Young Scientist at the XXXI Finnish URSI Convention in 2008, IEEE Sensors Council 2010 Early Career GOLD Award for advancements in wireless sensor technology, FIMECC Prize 2013 as project manager for the Zero Power Sensor Network (2010-2013), Young Researcher Award of the Year 2014 from the Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion, and Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering Doctoral Thesis Award in 2022 as supervising professor. Among his influential publications are "Co-designed mm-wave and LTE handset antennas" (IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2018), "Eight-element antenna array for diversity and MIMO mobile terminal in LTE 3500 MHz band" (Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2014), "Phase-based UHF RFID tracking with nonlinear Kalman filtering and smoothing" (IEEE Sensors Journal, 2011), "Analyzing radar cross section signatures of diverse drone models at mmWave frequencies" (IEEE Access, 2020), and "Road-condition recognition using 24-GHz automotive radar" (IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2009). His work has amassed over 3,800 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring his impact in antenna design and wireless technologies.