Esa Pitkänen
Organizer
FIMM-EMBL Group Leader, FIMM, HiLIFE
Leads the Machine Learning in Biomedicine group and the HiLIFE Biodata Analytics Meilahti unit. Principal investigator in the Applied Tumor Genomics research program.
People
Organizers
AiLIFE is organized by a team of researchers from the University of Helsinki, spanning the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), the HiLIFE Biodata Analytics unit and the Institute of Biotechnology.
Olli Kallioniemi
Organizer
Research Director, FIMM, HiLIFE
Founding director of FIMM (2007–2015). Leads the Precision Systems Medicine group, working on AI- and data-driven approaches to precision cancer medicine.
Heli Mönttinen
Organizer
Senior Researcher, Institute of Biotechnology (BI), HiLIFE
Leads the Gene Evolution group at the Institute of Biotechnology in Viikki, using computational methods to study the origins and evolution of RNA genes.
Guangzhao Cheng
Organizer
Postdoctoral Researcher, FIMM, HiLIFE
Works on large models for nanopore sequencing data and multimodal self-supervised deep learning for precision cancer medicine. Maintains this website.
Erika Romppanen
Organizer
Project Coordinator, FIMM, HiLIFE
Works in the Kallioniemi research group and the Data and AI-Driven Molecular Medicine (DAIMM) research initiative, supporting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of data, AI and molecular medicine.
Clara Benoit-Pilven
Organizer
Senior Researcher, FIMM, HiLIFE Biodata Analytics unit
Bioinformatician working on transcriptomic analysis for human health, including the genomics of sex differences in the human brain.
Daniel Nicorici
Organizer
Bioinformatician, HiLIFE Biodata Analytics unit
PhD in data science with over a decade of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computational biology, generative AI and precision medicine in academia and pharmaceutical R&D. Author of the FusionCatcher software.
Rishi Das Roy
Organizer
University Researcher, Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE Biodata Analytics unit
Designs algorithms and software for transcriptome data, with experience since 2014 in microarray, bulk RNA-seq and single-cell analysis.
Hosting institutions
The series is hosted by the Machine Learning in Biomedicine (MLBioMed), Precision Systems Medicine and Gene Evolution groups together with the HiLIFE Biodata Analytics unit, and is supported by the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), the Institute of Biotechnology and the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki.
HiLIFE is one of the leading life science research institutes in the Nordics, bridging the University's life-science units and campuses. FIMM is a translational research institute focusing on human genomics and precision medicine, part of HiLIFE and of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine.
Get involved
Would you like to give a talk, propose a speaker, or help organize a session on your campus? Get in touch with any of the organizers listed above. We especially welcome suggestions that bring life scientists and AI researchers together.
