Erkki Oja
| Erkki Oja | |
|---|---|
| Born | Erkki Oja 22 March 1948 Helsinki, Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Fields | Machine learning Artificial neural networks |
| Institutions |
Brown University Academy of Finland University of Kuopio Tokyo Institute of Technology Lappeenranta University of Technology Aalto University |
| Alma mater | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Teuvo Kohonen |
| Known for | Oja's rule |
| Notable awards | Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (1992) Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (1994) Fellow, IEEE (2000) Knight of the White Rose of Finland (2006) IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Network Pioneer Award (2006) Fellow, International Neural Network Society (2008) |
Erkki Oja (born 22 March 1948 in Helsinki) is a Finnish computer scientist and Aalto Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University School of Science. He is recognized for developing Oja's rule, which is a model of how neurons in the brain or in artificial neural networks learn over time. He is the director of the Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and the IEEE, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. He served as chairman of the European Neural Network Society between 2000 and 2005, and as the chairman of the Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering between 2007 and 2012.
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