Biography

Date: 14 December, 2024

Jyri Kivinen is Lead Data Scientist at the Savings Banks Centre. He received his MSc (Tech) in Computer and Information Science from Helsinki University of Technology, and immediately started DSc (tech) studies there. During the doctoral studies he was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley. He received his PhD (viva voce in 2013, passed with no corrections) in Informatics (Machine Learning) from the University of Edinburgh. He has held post-doctoral positions at the Université de Montréal (at the Laboratoire d’informatique des systèmes adaptatifs (LISA), now Mila) and Aalto University (at the Deep Learning and Bayesian Modelling group, and at the Complex Systems group). Since then, he has been, e.g., Senior Data Scientist at GE Healthcare, Full-time Teacher and Senior Specialist at Lapland University of Applied Sciences. He visited the Alan Turing Institute during a postdoctoral position at Aalto University, and the collaboration that he contributed to, created a Memorandum of Understanding between the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) and the Alan Turing Institute.