Head of Research, Nokia China

As research team leader in Nokia Research Center Beijing, Jyri is currently responsible for research in services and applications area focusing on Asian markets. He has been involved in more than 50 invention reports and 10 patent applications, and he was recently awarded as a TOP-3 inventor in Nokia China 2006.

In 2001 he changed his research focus to mobile gaming and was responsible of running games research program from year 2002 to 2006. In 2004 he established a research team focusing mobile gaming and end of 2005 he moved to Beijing to ramp up games research activities in China. Last year he worked on urban game experience project called Manhattan Stories Mashup, and also in a mobile learning project that has emerged into a product called Mobiledu that was launched in China in May.

Jyri joined Nokia 1997 to research the network and service management and later also the network quality of service. He received his Master of Science (Technology) degree from Helsinki.