Hello and welcome to my small corner on the Internet.
I am a simple, curious, versatile engineer and independent researcher living in Finland. I am the lead researcher for Distributed Robotics Group at Protocol Institute on weekends/evenings and write open-source protocols and software for robotics. For day-job I consult different companies in robotics and embedded-systems at Unikie. Here is my two-page CV.
I have been building hardware and software for around fifteen years, both in academia and industry. I have dabbled in lots of technologies during this time all the way from diodes and transistors, micro-controllers with few kilobytes of ram to Linux/Windows applications. I have designed small PCBs and electronic circuits, have written a lot of embedded software for sensors, for robots, and wireless sensor networks protocols. I have also written software for robotic simulation and occasionally made android/iOS applications. However, my core skill and strengths lie in the field of Embedded Software. I get a good kick out of packing as much functionalities as possible in a few kilo-bytes of ram and some tens of kilo-bytes of flash memory.
Regarding my education, I got my first master’s degree in Space Technology and Robotics from Erasmus Mundus SpaceMaster Programme.
In my free time I build small rovers for fun and do self-funded research for fun at Protocol Institute. I research the intersection of blockchain, robotics and AI-agents and write open-source protocols and software for it.
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In brief, my plan was to be a full-time academic, but I made a pivot to industry in 2015. So I am only able to do research in my free-time. I was planning to study Field Robotics for my doctoral studies particularly Evolutionary Robotics. I have been fascinated by Evolution for almost a decade and keep reading research articles on it whenever I have free time. Had I started my PhD I would have studied Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms in the context of Robotics, however life seemed to have a different plan for me.
I plan to use this web-site primarily as a place to bookmark things I read, jot my thoughts down occasionally and document my research.
I like to meet and get to know fellow geeks and people with backgrounds different than mine and listen to their stories. Twitter might be the fastest way if you would like to get in touch.
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