Summary
Ardi Tampuu is a Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Tartu with 12 years of research and software engineering experience bridging computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and machine learning. His trajectory from internships at Max Planck and INSERM to a PhD on artificial neural networks for biological data and a Research Software Engineer role demonstrates a strong blend of theoretical modeling and practical system-building. He has worked on brain-inspired visuo-motor control, thalamo-cortical simulations in NEST, and deep multiagent reinforcement learning environments, showing comfort with both biologically grounded models and modern ML architectures. Based in Estonia, Ardi combines academic teaching with hands-on research software development, often translating complex biological problems into reproducible computational experiments. Not obvious from the title: his background includes robotics and plugin development for bioinformatics tools, reflecting a knack for cross-disciplinary engineering.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Bioinformatics and modeling, Master of Engineering (MEng), Bioinformatics and modeling at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
Master's degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Master's degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Tartu Ülikool
English, French, Estonian, German, Spanish