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Aapo Hyvärinen is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, affiliated with the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and the Helsinki Probabilistic Machine Learning Lab. He previously held the position of Professor of Machine Learning at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London (2016-2019).
- Education: Undergraduate Mathematics at University of Helsinki, Vienna, and Paris; Ph.D. in Information Science from Helsinki University of Technology (1997)
His research focuses on machine learning and computational neuroscience, particularly:
- Independent Component Analysis (ICA)
- Natural Image Statistics
- Causal Representation Learning
- Neural Signal Processing
- Applications to brain imaging (MEG, CryoEM)
Recent publications emphasize causal discovery, identifiable machine learning, and nonlinear ICA. Key projects include:
- VETURI (AI for health)
- DIGIMIND (AI in mental health)
- CIFAR grants (2022-2025)
Scientific awards:
- Highly Cited Researcher (2010)
He serves as Action Editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research and Neural Computation, and has held Area Chair roles at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, and UAI conferences. His work bridges theoretical machine learning with neuroscience and philosophical implications of artificial intelligence.
