Valtteri  Niemi, received a PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Turku,  Finland in 1989. After serving in various positions in University of Turku, he  was an Associate Professor in Mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland,  during 1993-1997. He joined Nokia Research Center (NRC), Helsinki, Finland, in  1997. Since then, he has contributed in several roles for Nokia research in  wireless security area, including cryptological aspects. In 2008, he moved to  the newly established NRC laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his main  focus was on privacy-enhancing technologies. He was nominated as a Nokia Fellow  in January 2009. During 2011, Valtteri led the Security and Networking  Protocols team in the Radio Systems laboratory of NRC (in Helsinki). He has  participated and led around 30 projects, including EU projects, TEKES projects,  international cooperation projects, Nokia internal projects and so on. Starting  from beginning of 2012, Dr. Niemi is currently a Professor in the Department of  Computer Science in University of Helsinki, Finland.

Prof.  Niemi participated 3GPP SA3 (security) standardization group from its beginning  and during 2003-2009 he was the chairman of the group. Before 3GPP, he took part  in ETSI SMG 10 for GSM security specification work. He has published more than  70 scientific articles, co-authored four books and holds a total of more than  100 patent grants in different countries. Most of his granted patents are  essential inventions and have significant impact in telecommunication industry.  He has given more than 30 keynote speeches and invited talks in international  conferences and universities all over the world. Recently, he solely edited a  special issue about LTE security in Computer Communications. His books have  been adopted as textbooks by a number of universities.