Eero Hyvärinen

Aapo Hyvärinen is a Finnish professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki. He studied mathematics in Helsinki, Vienna, and Paris, earned his Ph.D. in information science from Helsinki University of Technology in 1997, and later joined the University of Helsinki, where he became a professor in 2008.

He is widely known for foundational work on independent component analysis, along with influential research in unsupervised learning, causal discovery, and probabilistic machine learning. His research profile also highlights applications to neuroscience, and he has served as a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).

Alongside his research papers, he has written books including Independent Component Analysis, Natural Image Statistics, and Painful Intelligence: What AI Can Tell Us About Human Suffering. His work is often appreciated for making difficult ideas in machine learning feel clear, rigorous, and useful.