Eric Malmi
Doctor of Science (Technology)
About Me
I'm a Senior Research Scientist at Google, Zurich. I finished my doctoral studies in the Data Mining Group led by Prof. Aristides Gionis. In my thesis, I developed collective entity resolution methods with the main focus on linking historical population records and inferring family trees.
My research interests include data mining, machine learning, computational social science, natural language understanding, graph algorithms, and entity resolution. You can find more information about my research interests and hobby projects from my data science blog mining4meaning.com.
During my doctoral studies, I had the pleasure to work as a data scientist at Verto Analytics and to intern at Qatar Computing Research Institute and Google Research.
Publications
Demos
AncestryAI (paper)
DeepBeat (paper)
Teaching
I have supervised student research projects and bachelor's theses on the following topics:
- Deep learning for measuring name similarity, Spring 2017
- Predicting news headline clicks and quality, Spring 2017
- Topic modeling for rap lyrics analysis, Spring 2016
- Speech synthesis for building an automated rap bot, Spring 2016
- User demographics prediction, Fall 2015
- Analysis of first name popularities in historical Finland, Fall 2015
- Predicting purchase for a visit, Fall 2014
- Customer lifetime value estimation, Fall 2014
Additionally, I have been a teaching assistant for the following courses:
- Information Visualization, Spring 2017
- Statistical Natural Language Processing, Spring 2012
- From Data to Knowledge, Fall 2011
- Basic Course in Programming (Python), Spring 2010
- Basic Course in Programming (Java), Fall 2008
Media
Some of my work has been featured in the news.
AncestryAI
Demographic prediction based on user's apps
Washington Post
Ilta Sanomat (in Finnish)
DeepBeat
Bloomberg TV (video interview)
The Wall Street Journal (interview)
MIT Technology Review
How We Get To Next (interview, song)
CBC (radio interview)
Mashable
Consequence of Sound (video interview)
Mic (interview)
CNET
Slash Gear
CIO
Esquire
Quarz
Nelonen TV (in Finnish)
Nyt (interview, in Finnish)
Talouselämä (in Finnish)
Raplyzer
The original blog post in
Mining for meaning (in Finnish)
English translation of the original blog post in
Mining for meaning
Engadget
Rapstation (radio interview)
The Daily Dot (interview)
Vox
Hypebeast
Rapzilla
Dagens Nyheter
(interview, in Swedish)
Hiphop.de (in German)
Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish)
YleX
(radio interview, in Finnish)
Rumba (in Finnish)
Digitoday (in Finnish)