Aki Vehtari

Academy Research Fellow, D.Sc. (Tech.), Adjunct Professor (docent) in Statistics

Aalto University (Helsinki University of Technology was one of three universities merged to Aalto)
School of Science
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science (BECS)

Office: Rakentajanaukio 2C, 3rd floor, F306
Phone: +358 40 5333 747
Email: Aki.Vehtari(at)aalto.fi

Research Activities

I'm leader of the Bayesian methodology group at BECS. Most of our current and past projects are listed in Bayes group's research page, but since we are so busy doing new research, some recent projects may be missing from there.

My research interests are Bayesian probability theory and methodology, especially inference methods such as Laplace, EP, VB, MC, model assessment and selection, non-parametric models such as Gaussian processes, dynamic models, and hierarchical models.

Interesting applications I'm currently working on include brain signal analysis (MEG, fMRI, InI-fMRI ), genome wide association analysis, public and occupational health care data analysis, spatio-temporal epidemiology and large predator population structure and size estimation.

List of my publications

2013-04-25 New Release of GPstuff 4.1

Teaching

I'm responsible for several courses, but during Academy Research Fellowship, others will take care of actual teaching for two courses.

Software

I have participated in writing several computational software packages:


Last modified: 2012-10-13