I am the founding director of ELLIS Institute Finland, a Machine Learning Professor operating 50-50 in the UK and Finland. In Finland I also lead the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI, and in the UK the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals AI-FUN. Part of my research group is at Aalto University and part in the University of Manchester. I will do my best to update the rest of this page soon but my up-to-date list of papers is always in Google Scholar.

Research interests

• Probabilistic modelling and Bayesian inference
• Collaborative AI for decision making and design
• Collaboration with many fields including health, medicine, biology, user interaction, cognitive science, neuroscience; especially when formulated as virtual simulation-based laboratories
• Timely in ML: distribution shifts, multiple tasks and sources, generative models, experimental design, simulation-based inference, humans in the loop and theory of mind, privacy-preserving learning

Current activities

• ERC Advanced Grant ODD-ML: Out-of-distribution deployable machine learning 2026-
• ELLIS Institute Finland; ELLIS Fellow
• ELLIS Board Member 2025-
• ELLIS Robust ML Program
• UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellow
• Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and ELLIS Unit Manchester
• UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems
• AI-DOC 100 AI PhDs in Finland
• Action editor: JMLR, IEEE TPAMI
• Regularly Area Chair (or equiv) of ML conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI
• I am very proud of the 36 PhD students and many postdocs I have mentored. Of my lab alumni, 21 have got faculty positions in Universities and the rest are entrepreneurs or in company positions (~50%) or staff members or postdocs at research institutes