Jorma Laaksonen
Senior University Lecturer at Aalto University School of Science
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJorma Laaksonen is a Senior University Lecturer and long-time research scientist at Aalto University with a D.Sc. in Technology from Helsinki University of Technology and over three decades of experience in pattern recognition, statistical classification and neural networks. He has authored roughly 30 journal and 200 conference papers, combining deep academic rigor with practical systems work such as founding roles in the SOM and LVQ Programming Teams and the PicSOM development group. His research focuses on content-based information retrieval and computer vision, and he has led funded projects including an Academy of Finland fellowship on image retrieval using neural methods. Jorma blends teaching, administration and management with active research, mentoring generations of students while maintaining hands-on expertise that stretches back to assembler programming on Intel 8086. Based in Helsinki, he is an IEEE Senior Member and an IAPR Technical Committee contributor, known for cultivating reproducible, tool-driven research rather than chasing trends.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation, Matriculation at Joutsan lukioDoctor of Science in Technology, Computer Science, Doctor of Science in Technology, Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Russian, c++
Github Skills (27)
python8
raspberry-pi7
iot6
mqtt6
extraction6
home-automation5
multimodal5
machine-translation5
sound-files4
analyzer4
asyncio4
parser4
deep-learning4
computer-vision4
rdf3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aalto-cbir/PicSOM
Nov 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 24 pushes in 5 years 6 months
MoMaF/metadatatools
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
Scripts for extracting and handling Elonet and MoMaF metadata
Contributions:49 commits, 3 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 4 months
extractionhandlinganalyzermetadata
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