HPY Research Foundation

HPY Research Foundation was founded in 1999 and supports research studies of telecommunications technology, studies closely related to telecommunications business or to the use of telecommunications. These research studies should be in the areas of technological, economical or behavioral sciences and the level of post-graduate studies aiming to doctoral thesis or higher-level studies.

By 2023 the Foundation has granted a total of EUR 1.2 million to mainly researches for their doctoral thesis in various universities. The Foundation library has now 144 doctoral theses. 

Grant awarded for 2024

HPY Research Foundation 2024 grants have been granted. The foundation supported doctoral thesis students by awarding grants worth EUR 3,000  each. See full list below.

Contact information

Mail address:

HPY:n Tutkimussäätiö – HTF:s Forskningsstiftele sr / HPY Research Foundation
Asiamies Ilpo Aarni
Kultakummuntie 1
00940 HELSINKI

Representative of the foundation:

Ilpo Aarni. Lic.Tech
Email: ilpo.aarni@kolumbus.fi
Phone:  +358 (0) 50 2435

Previous grants 

NimiTutkimustyön aiheYliopisto & valvojaMyöntö
Maria Cojocari Graphene enhanced anapole metasurface for room-temperature THz bolometry
Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Fysiikan ja matematiikan laitos, Polina Kuzhir, Maria Kafesaki


3 000 €
Pyry Kiviharju
Receiver Advances in Radio Technology of Wireless Capsule EndoscopyAalto-yliopisto, Sähkötekniikan korkeakoulum, Katsuyuki Haneda


3 000 €
Mehdi LetafatiGenerative AI for Wireless Communications: Towards Efficient and Resilient AI-native SystemsOulun yliopisto, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Matti Latva-aho, Samad Ali3 000 €
Hsiao-Chun Lin Stress Detection and Work: Cross-impact of Information and Communications Technology for Improving Wellbeing in Future NetworksTampereen yliopisto,
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Jari Nurmi

3 000 €
Mikko Majamaa
Enhancing the Performance of Non-Terrestrial Networks in 5G and BeyondJyväskylän yliopisto,
IT tiedekunta,
Timo Hämäläinen, Jani Puttonen

3 000 €
Nils Meyer-KahlenTransfer-Plausible Acoustics for Augmented Reality TelepresenceAalto-yliopisto, Sähköekniikan korkeakoulu, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Tapio Lokki, Sebastian Schlecht

3 000 €
Albert SalmiMonisyöttöantennisuunnittelun laskennalliset menetelmätAalto-yliopisto, Sähkötekniikan korkeakoulu, Elektroniikan ja nanotekniikan laitos, Ville Viikari

3 000 €
Nassim SehadHuman-Computer Interaction in the Metaverse — A Journey Towards the Internet of SensesAalto-yliopisto, sähkötekniikan korkeakoulu
Information and Communication Engineering, Riku Jäntti, Hadid Abdenour 

3 000 €
Mohammadjavad Sojdeh
Energy Efficiency in Cache-aided Multi-antenna NetworksOulun yliopisto, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Antti-Heikki Tölli

3 000 €
Abolfazl ZakeriScheduling and Sampling Algorithms For Information Freshness and Semantic CommunicationsOulun yliopisto, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, CWC - Radio Technologies, Marian Codreanu, Mohammad  Moltafet


3 000 €