Henry Tirri
Founding Academic Fellow at Nokia
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Tirri is a seasoned technology executive and academic with over 26 years leading global R&D, product and IP strategy across AI, machine learning, data analytics and wireless systems. He has repeatedly bridged deep research and commercial impact—from co-founding Ekahau and contributing core positioning IP to architecting Bluetooth Low Energy and automotive OTA services—to running multi-thousand-person organizations as CTO/EVP at Nokia, InterDigital and HARMAN. A practiced board advisor and keynote speaker, he blends hands-on engineering (open-source HEIF back-end contributions) with high-level strategy, digital sovereignty initiatives, and P&L leadership. His academic pedigree (PhD, long-standing professorships and fellowships at UC Berkeley, University of Helsinki and Aalto) informs evidence-driven innovation and talent development. Notable for turning research into large exits and standards influence, he also serves as a strategic advisor to Fortune 500s and European tech programs.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (12)
file-processing10
file-handling10
c-language10
heif10
file-access10
parsing10
cprogramming-language10
file-parsing10
fileio10
file-format10
file-parser10
json9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nokiatech/heif
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
High Efficiency Image File Format
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 7 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Henry contributed to the core functionality of the HEIF file format library. Their work involved the addition and modification of source code, particularly related to the JSON parsing and file reading components. The user focused on fixing bugs and enhancing the handling of various data structures within the HEIF file structure, including fixes for 'ipco' and 'iprp' boxes, and support for 64-bit box sizes, which suggests a deep understanding of the file format's intricacies. Additional commits relate to reader/writer functionality.
pngimage-processingimagefile-format
nokiatech/omaf
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Nokia OMAF implementation
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 26 pushes in 8 months
replayomafsecurityopengl3nokia
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