Simo Särkkä

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
T410 Dept. Electrical Engineering and Automation

Dr. Särkkä is an Associate Professor in Sensor informatics and medical technology at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation (EEA) at Aalto University. His research interests are in multi-sensor data processing systems with applications in location sensing, health and medical technology, machine learning, inverse problems, and brain imaging.

Full researcher profile
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Contact information

Phone number
+358505124393

Honors and awards

Winner of the 1st Prize for Reproducibility in Signal Processing by soundsoftware.ac.uk, awarded at Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Conference 2014

Winner of the 1st Prize for Reproducibility in Signal Processing by soundsoftware.ac.uk, awarded at Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Conference 2014.
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Jan 2014

Winner of the IJCNN Time Series Prediction Competition - The CATS Benchmark (together with Vehtari & Lampinen)

Winner of the IJCNN Time Series Prediction Competition - The CATS Benchmark (together with Vehtari & Lampinen), 2004 (24 international contestants).
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Jan 2004

Best paper finalist and runner-up award, Computer Track

The first IEEE Life Sciences Conference (LSC), best paper finalist and runner up award for the Computer track for the paper "Prediction of major complications affecting very low birth weight infants" by Olli-Pekka Rinta-Koski, Simo Särkkä, Jaakko Hollmén, Markus Leskinen, Krista Rantakari and Sture Andersson
Award or honor granted for a specific work Professorship Rousu Juho Dec 2017

The best student paper award winner

The best student paper award winner for paper "Jakub Prüher and Simo Särkkä (2016). On The Use Of Gradient Information In Gaussian Process Quadratures. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)."
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Jan 2016

Tammy L. Blair Best Student Paper Award, First Runner-Up

Award or honor granted for a specific work School common, ELEC Jul 2016

Tammy L. Blair Best Student Paper Award, First Runner-Up

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation Jul 2017

Research groups

  • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
  • Sensor Informatics and Medical Technology

Publications

Online pole segmentation on range images for long-term LiDAR localization in urban environments

Hao Dong, Xieyuanli Chen, Simo Särkkä, Cyrill Stachniss 2023 Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Multidimensional projection filters via automatic differentiation and sparse-grid integration

Muhammad Fuady Emzir, Zheng Zhao, Simo Särkkä 2023 Signal Processing

Vessel Bearing Estimation Using Visible and Thermal Imaging

Ajinkya Gorad, Syeda Sakira Hassan, Simo Särkkä 2023 Image Analysis - 23rd Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2023, Proceedings

Fast Dynamic Programming in Trees in the MPC Model

Chetan Gupta, Rustam Latypov, Yannic Maus, Shreyas Pai, Simo Särkkä, Jan Studený, Jukka Suomela, Jara Uitto, Hossein Vahidi 2023 SPAA 2023 - Proceedings of the 35th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Fourier-Hermite Dynamic Programming for Optimal Control

Syeda Sakira Hassan, Simo Sarkka 2023 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

System identification using autoregressive Bayesian neural networks with nonparametric noise models

Christos Merkatas, Simo Särkkä 2023 Journal of Time Series Analysis

Bayesian Filtering and Smoothing

Simo Särkkä, Lennart Svensson 2023

Temporal Parallelization of Dynamic Programming and Linear Quadratic Control

Simo Särkkä, Angel F. Garcia-Fernandez 2023 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control