Erkki Oja

Erkki Oja
Born (1948-03-22) 22 March 1948 (age 76)
Helsinki, Finland
Alma materHelsinki University of Technology
Known forOja's rule
AwardsMember of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (1992)
Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (1994)
Fellow, IEEE (2000)
Knight of the White Rose of Finland (2006)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Network Pioneer Award (2006)
Fellow, International Neural Network Society (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
Artificial neural networks
InstitutionsBrown University
Academy of Finland
University of Kuopio
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Aalto University
Thesis Studies of the Convergence Properties of Adaptive Orthogonalizing Filters  (1977)
Doctoral advisorTeuvo Kohonen
Doctoral studentsAapo Hyvärinen
Websiteusers.ics.aalto.fi/oja/

Erkki Oja (born 22 March 1948) is a Finnish computer scientist and Aalto Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University School of Science.[1] He is recognized for developing Oja's rule,[2] which is a model of how neurons in the brain or in artificial neural networks learn over time.

  1. ^ "News: Erkki Oja appointed as Aalto Distinguished Professor". Aalto University. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  2. ^ Hertz, John; Krogh, Anders; Palmer, Richard G. (2018-03-08). Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation (1 ed.). CRC Press. doi:10.1201/9780429499661. ISBN 978-0-429-49966-1.