Dr. Akopian received the M.S. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1987 and Ph.D. degree from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland, in 1997. From 1999 to 2003, he was with Nokia Corporation. Prior to joining Nokia in 1999, he was a member of teaching and research staff of TUT and a Research Scientist with the Institute of Informatics and Automatization, Yerevan, Armenia. His current research interests include digital signal processing algorithms for communication receivers, dedicated hardware architectures, and positioning methods. Dr. Akopian authored more than 20 patents.