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Tommi S. Jaakkola is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his M.Sc. in theoretical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in 1992 and his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from MIT in 1997. After completing a postdoctoral position in computational molecular biology as a DOE/Sloan fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), he joined the MIT EECS faculty in 1998. His research interests span various aspects of machine learning and statistical inference, focusing on the development of algorithms for modern estimation problems that often involve incomplete data sources. Additionally, his applied research addresses challenges in computational functional genomics, particularly in relation to transcriptional regulation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science specializing in machine learning and computational biology.