Fanni Ojala

My research interests include machine learning, Bayesian data analysis, likelihood-free inference, survival modeling and the application of the aforementioned methods to bacterial genomics research, such as bacterial colonisation and antimicrobial resistance.

Full researcher profile
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Areas of expertise

Machine learning, Bayesian data analysis, Likelihood-free inference, Survival analysis, Bacterial genomics, Bacterial colonization, Antimicrobial resistance

Honors and awards

Aalto SCI award: Teaching Assistants of the Year 2023

Our teaching assistant (TA) team in the Machine Learning course (CS-C3240) got the Aalto SCI award: Teaching Assistants of the Year 2023.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Dec 2023

Research groups

  • Professorship Marttinen P., Doctoral Researcher

Publications

Basic reproduction number varies markedly between closely related pandemic Escherichia coli clones

Fanni Ojala, Henri Pesonen, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Tommi Mäklin, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Pekka Marttinen, Jukka Corander 2025 Nature Communications

Bayesian modeling of the impact of antibiotic resistance on the efficiency of MRSA decolonization

Fanni Ojala, Mohamad R. Abdul Sater, Loren G. Miller, James A. McKinnell, Mary K. Hayden, Susan S. Huang, Yonatan H. Grad, Pekka Marttinen 2023 PLoS Computational Biology