Péter Pál Boda is a Principal Scientist at the Software & Application Technologies Laboratory of Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. He received his M.Sc.E.E. degree in telecommunications and telematics from the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1991. After pursuing post-graduate studies at TUB, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), he received his Lic. Tech. from HUT on "Psychoacoustical Considerations in Speech Analysis and Recognition" in 1995. The same year he joined Nokia Research Center where he worked as a senior researcher and an assistant group manager on spoken dialogue systems, language technology, usability and application development, and before his sabbatical leave as a Technology Expert focusing on multimodality and advanced man-machine interfaces in preparation of EU and Finnish national projects. He spent his sabbatical year (2003-2004) as a Visiting Scientist with the Spoken Language Systems Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.

His current research interest include advanced user interface solutions where contextual and sensory information provide a better understanding of the user intention. In the field of multimodality he is especially interested in statistical integration mechanisms with a wider scope than mere fusion of the actual user input modalities. He is currently the technical manager of SensorPlanet, a Nokia initiative on large scale mobile device centric wireless sensor networks.

He represented Nokia in the COST 249 and 278 EU actions on speech recognition in telecommunications and was an active participant in the CATCH-2004 EU project and more recently in obiLife. He has some 20 publications in international conferences and workshops and has been member of several workshops’ program and scientific committees. Owner and co-owner of two patents.