Jari Nurmi works as a Professor at Tampere University, TAU (ex Tampere University of Technology, TUT), Finland since 1999, in the Electrical Engineering unit. He received his M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and D.Sc.(Tech) from TUT in 1988, 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is working on embedded computing, System-on-Chip, approximate computing, wireless localization, GNSS receiver design, and software-defined radio and networks. He has held various research, education and management positions at TUT since 1987 and was the Vice President of the SME VLSI Solution Oy from 1995 to 1998. He is the director of the national DELTA doctoral training network of about 200 PhD students.