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

Contact

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

Areas of expertise

artificial intelligence
data analytics
machine learning
health technology

Biography

Antti Airola, is an Associate 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 EU and Research Council of Finland funded research projects.

Teaching

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.

Research

Airola's main research areas are in the area of machine learning and data science, especially their applications in the health domain.

Publications

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Identification of functionally related enzymes by learning-to-rank methods (2014)

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Michiel Stock, Thomas Fober, Eyke Hüllermeier, Serghei Glinca, Gerhard Klebe, Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Bernard De Baets, Willem Waegeman
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Predicting patient acuity from electronic patient records (2014)

Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Elina Kontio, Antti Airola, Tapio Pahikkala, Heljä Lundgren-Laine, Kristiina Junttila, Heikki Korvenranta, Tapio Salakoski, Sanna Salanterä
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Statistical parsing of varieties of clinical Finnish (2014)

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Veronika Laippala, Timo Viljanen, Antti Airola, Jenna Kanerva, Sanna Salanterä, Tapio Salakoski, Filip Ginter
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))