I am a Chief Research Scientist at the Department of Information and Computer Science, (previously Laboratory of Computer and Information Science) of the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland.

I am interested in data analysis or data mining using techniques of probabilistic modeling and machine learning. Previously, I was also conducting research about artificial neural networks. In the research projects within our research group Parsimonious Modeling at the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT), we are interested in parsimonious models — compact or sparse representations of the data.

I have taught a large number of courses on varying topics in our laboratory for post-graduate students. I am teaching a Master's level course T-61.5140 Machine Learning: Advanced Probabilistic Methods. On the course, we use the software package BernoulliMix for the term project.