Santeri Mentu
Doctoral Researcher at Aalto University
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolSanteri Mentu is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University with 8 years of experience applying machine learning to spatiosemantic scene understanding and robotics. He combines academic rigor from a strong mathematics and bioinformatics background with hands-on data science work—previously building time-series and ML solutions at Kaiku Health and improving generative priors for healthcare applications. His research focuses on robust, reliable models that bridge perception and action in real-world robotic systems, informed by prior work on latent tensor reconstruction and Gaussian process prior VAEs. Based in Helsinki, he brings a pragmatic research-to-product mindset and a knack for translating theoretical advances into applied tools for health and robotics. An understated thread through his career is a consistent drive to make probabilistic and structured ML models practical for deployment beyond the lab.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Bioinformatics and Digital Health, with honours, Master's Degree, Bioinformatics and Digital Health, with honours at Aalto University
English, Finnish, Swedish
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Github Skills (13)
rocket7
bayesian-network7
bayesian-deep-learning6
convolutional-neural-networks5
image-recognition4
bayesian4
bayesian-inference4
python4
variational-inference3
pytorch3
reinforcement-learning3
bayesian-statistics3
ml-agents2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
smentu/AI-guided-rockets
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Training a SpaceX-style rocket to land autonomously using reinforcement learning. Powered by Unity MLAgents.
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 28 pushes in 1 month
ml-agentsreinforcement-learningrocketunitylander
sprojekt/HIT_VAE
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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