Erkki Oja

Erkki Oja
Born	Erkki Oja (1948-03-22) 22 March 1948 Helsinki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Alma mater	Helsinki University of Technology
Known for	Oja's rule
Awards	Member 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
Fields	Machine learning Artificial neural networks
Institutions	Brown University Academy of Finland University of Kuopio Tokyo Institute of Technology Lappeenranta University of Technology Aalto University
Doctoral advisor	Teuvo Kohonen

Erkki Oja (born 22 March 1948 in Helsinki) is a Finnish computer scientist and Aalto Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University School of Science. He is recognized for developing Oja's rule, which is a model of how neurons in the brain or in artificial neural networks learn over time. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and the IEEE, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. He served as chairman of the European Neural Network Society between 2000 and 2005, and as the chairman of the Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering between 2007 and 2012.

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