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Antti
Airola
Associate Professor, Health Technology
D.Sc. (Tech.)

Contact

+358 29 450 4193
+358 50 517 8711
Vesilinnantie 5
20500
Turku

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Areas of expertise

artificial intelligence
data analytics
machine learning
health technology

Biography

Antti Airola, is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of data science in the area of Health Technology at the University of Turku. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles, won multiple international data science competitions, and received several research excellence awards such as the the HATUTUS award for the best PhD thesis in the area of pattern recognition in Finland (2010 - 2011) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Paper award (2015). He is currently working as responsible leader in several Academy of Finland and Business Finland funded research projects.

Teaching

Airola's main research areas are in the area of machine learning and data science, especially their applications in the health domain. He currently leads two Academy of Finland funded projects related to the area of biomedical interaction prediction, and the Business Finland PRIVASA project on privacy-preserving AI for health data.

Research

Airola is currently responsible for teaching the course TKO_3103 Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, as well as thesis supervision work (BSc, MSc, PhD). He has developed materials for and taught in many courses in the area of data and computer science, is responsible for developing the curriculum for both national BSc and MSc Medical and health technology programmes, as well as the international MSc programme in Health technology, and directs the AI Academy that coordinates AI related teaching between the faculties.

Publications

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Playtime Measurement with Survival Analysis (2018)

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Markus Viljanen, Antti Airola, Jukka Heikkonen, Tapio Pahikkala
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

How engineers perceive the importance of ethics in Finland (2018)

European Journal of Engineering Education
Ville Taajamaa, Anne-Maarit Majanoja, Diana Bairaktarova, Antti Airola, Tapio Pahikkala, Erkki Sutinen
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

A community challenge for inferring genetic predictors of gene essentialities through analysis of a functional screen of cancer cell lines (2017)

Cell Systems
Gönen M, Weir Ba, Cowley GS, Vazquez F, Guan Y, Jaiswal A, Karasuyama M, Uzunangelov V, Wang T, Tsherniak A, Howell S, Marbach D, Hoff B, Norman TC, Airola A, Bivol A, Bunte K, Carlin D, Chopra S, Deran A, Ellrott K, Gopalacharyulu P, Graim K, Kaski S, Khan SA, Newton Y, Ng S, Pahikkala T, Paull E, Sokolov A, Tang H, Tang J, Wennerberg K, Xie Y, Zhan X, Zhu F, Aittokallio T, Mamitsuka H, Stuart JM, Boehm JS, Root DE, Xiao G, Stolovitzky G, Hahn WC, Margolin AA
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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