Melissa Valjakka joins the Computational Health lab to work on her Master’s thesis
We welcome Melissa Valjakka to the team! Melissa joined us in October 2026 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Aalto University. Melissa’s thesis project focuses on investigating the added value of clinical notes in disease risk prediction by comparing structured information extraction and text embedding methods. She explores the use…
FinnGen best paper in 2025 prize!
Yesterday in the annual FinnGen face-to-face meeting we were honoured to share the best FinnGen paper award for 2025 together with Kira Detrois from the DSGE lab! This was a nice recognition for this collaborative work which started in 2022 as part of the INTERVENE consortium. If you wish to check out what we did,…
Computational Health lab officially launched!
The Computational Health lab has started its operations at FIMM in September 2026! Our mission is to use machine learning and data science to find better ways to utilize large-scale health data in forecasting future health and disease, and to develop new personalized health solutions. Read more about the thoughts of the lab PI, Tuomo…
