Erkki Oja

Teaching activities

Course From Data to Knowledge, Period II (autumn)

Course Principles of Pattern Recognition, Period III (spring)

Reception hour: Tuesday, 3 to 4 PM, Room B328, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research activities

Neural networks, especially unsupervised learning like PCA, ICA, SOM

Statistical pattern recognition and machine learning

Computer vision and image analysis

Signal and data analysis

Applications of the above on industrial problems

See short biography or current full CV.

Books, journal papers etc.

Subspace Methods of Pattern Recognition, Research Studies Press and J. Wiley, 1983 (out of print)

Kohonen Maps (with S. Kaski), Elsevier Science, 1999

Independent Component Analysis (with A. Hyvarinen and J. Karhunen), J. Wiley, 2001

Here is a list of my published journal and conference papers

Some old papers, not easily available, can be downloaded here .

Recent invited plenary talks

ISNN, Chengdu, China, May 2006

IJCNN, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006

MLSP, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 2007

ICANN, Limassol, Cyprus, September 2009

Memberships in scientific organizations

IEEE: Fellow

IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition): Founding Fellow

ENNS (European Neural Networks Society): Past President

INNS (International Neural Networks Society): Fellow

Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Member

Finnish Pattern Recognition Society, Past Chairman

Academiae Europaeae, member

Editorial Boards of journals

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, until 2000

Neural Computation

Pattern Recognition Letters

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Neural Networks, until 1995

etc.

Conference Committees

IJCNN, ICANN, ICA-BSS, NIPS, etc.

The Independent Component Analysis research group

The FastICA MATLAB Package

The Macadamia Master's Programme in Machine Learning and Data Mining