Okko Räsänen
Professor at Tampere University
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolOkko Räsänen is a Professor and leader of the Speech and Cognition research group at Tampere University, specializing in computational self-learning systems that extract meaningful, predictive representations from multisensory input. With over a decade of academic and entrepreneurial experience, he blends theoretical work on infant language acquisition and unsupervised representation learning with practical analytics across speech, EEG/MEG, accelerometer, energy, and financial datasets. He has held research and visiting positions at Aalto and Stanford, served as an Academy Research Fellow, and co-founded a startup commercializing doctoral research into predictive analytics for industry. His work is notable for bridging cognitive science and signal processing—using real-world sensor streams to model how language and perception emerge without supervision. Based in Tampere, Finland, he combines deep domain expertise in spoken language processing with hands-on system-building across diverse sensor modalities.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science (tech.) Language technology, Doctor of Science (tech.) Language technology at Aalto UniversityM.Sc. (tech.) Language technology electrical engineering leadership and work psychology, M.Sc. (tech.) Language technology electrical engineering leadership and work psychology at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, Finnish, Swedish, German, matlab
Github Skills (19)
music-information-retrieval10
alice8
speech-processing8
diarization6
voice-activity-detection6
virtual-machine5
speech-enhancement5
linguistics4
espn3
speaker-recognition3
speech3
machine-learning2
python2
pytorch2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
orasanen/ALICE
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Automatic LInguistic Unit Count Estimator (ALICE)
Contributions:127 commits, 4 PRs, 107 pushes in 1 year 10 months
linguisticunitalicespeech-processingestimator
orasanen/thetaOscillator
Oct 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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