PRESS RELEASE
May 14th, 2018
HELSINKI, FINLAND: MOPRIM, an innovative smart mobility data company, today announced that Henry Tirri has joined the company’s Board of Directors. MOPRIM will strengthen its deep technology development in the mobility domain to support the growing demand in the field. Henry Tirri will bring expertise and vision to support MOPRIM’s vision of becoming a major player providing data-as-a-service products for smart mobility to support people, vehicles and smart cities related applications.
With a unique background as an academic, corporate executive and entrepreneur, Tirri has extensive experience leading and converting cutting edge technology development, product management and intellectual property into high growth business opportunities on a global scale. From 2016 to 2017 Tirri held Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer management roles at HARMAN, and previously from 2004 to 2015, Tirri held various technology leadership roles at Nokia, as Executive Vice President and CTO, and member of the Nokia Leadership Team.
Prior to joining Nokia, Tirri was a tenured Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Graduate School and the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Helsinki, leading a world-class research group in probabilistic modeling. He has held various academic positions including Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin; Research Scientist at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC); Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories; and Visiting Scientist at NASA AMES, Visiting Professor at Stanford University and an Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at University of California at Berkeley. He is the author and co-author of numerous academic papers in various fields of computer science, social sciences and statistics and holds many patents in information technology.
Tirri holds Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, Finland and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Tampere. His personal research interests span from Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, information theory and analytics to the programmable world/Internet of Things.
About MOPRIM
MOPRIM develops proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms for advanced movement recognition of people, vehicles and their mobility in smart cities. MOPRIM’s data-as-a-service solution is especially suitable for gathering and analyzing any movement related data using smartphones or wearables.
More information: Petri Martikainen, Executive Chairman, e. press@moprim.com