Samuel Kaski

Samuel Kaski

Machine learning professor

ELLIS Institute Finland is hiring! DL September 21, 2026

  • Postdocs and doctoral students: We have many postdoc and PhD positions in the groups of ~50 faculty of this startup institute which is entering its scale-up phase. This is worth checking out!
  • Entrepreneurial postdocs: New thing this year, the plan is to launch a startup/spinoff with an excellent team with competitive advantage from the expertise the candidates and the groups have, and recent and future breakthroughs. Challenging? Very. Worth doing? Apply if you think so…

I am welcoming candidates from this call as well, to my team and for collaboration with other teams in the institute or elsewhere.

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.

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

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