Aki Vehtari
Professor
Professor
T313 Dept. Computer Science
I work on the integration of computer science and Bayesian statistics, making fundamental contributions Bayesian workflow, probabilistic programming, inference methods such as Laplace, EP, VB, MC, inference and model diagnostics, model assessment and selection, Gaussian processes, and hierarchical models.
Full researcher profile
Email
aki.vehtari@aalto.fi
Phone number
+358405333747
Areas of expertise
Bayesian computational modeling, Bayesian workflow
Honors and awards
Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing from the American Statistical Association
Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing from the American Statistical Association awarded to paper Sebastian Weber, Andrew Gelman, Daniel Lee, Michael Betancourt, Aki Vehtari, and Amy Racine-Poon (2018). Bayesian aggregation of average data: An application in drug development. Annals of Applied Statistics, 12(3):1583-1604.
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Computer Science
Jan 2020
Member of the winning team (Särkkä, Vehtari & Lampinen) in Time Series Prediction Competition - The CATS Benchmark 2004
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Computer Science
Jan 2004
2016 De Groot Prize
The DeGroot Prize, in honor of Morris H ("Morrie" DeGroot, is awarded to the author or authors of an outstanding published book in Statistical Science
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Computer Science
Jun 2016
Research groups
- Computer Science Professors, Professor
- Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) - Research area, Professor
- Probabilistic Machine Learning, Professor
- Professorship Vehtari Aki, Professor
- Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), Professor
Publications
Guangzhao Cheng, Aki Vehtari, Lu Cheng
2025
eLife
Kunal Ghosh, Milica Todorovic, Aki Vehtari, Patrick Rinke
2025
Journal of Chemical Physics
Måns Magnusson, Jakob Torgander, Paul Christian Bürkner, Lu Zhang, Bob Carpenter, Aki Vehtari
2025
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2025
Yann McLatchie, Sölvi Rögnvaldsson, Frank Weber, Aki Vehtari
2025
Statistical Science
Sh Salimi, A. Vehtari, M. Salive, M. Kaeberlein, D. Raftery, L. Ferrucci
2025
Nature Communications
Christopher Tosh, Philip Greengard, Ben Goodrich, Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, Daniel Hsu
2025
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Alex Cooper, Aki Vehtari, Catherine Forbes, Dan Simpson, Lauren Kennedy
2024
STATISTICS AND COMPUTING
Alex Cooper, Dan Simpson, Lauren Kennedy, Catherine Forbes, Aki Vehtari
2024
Bayesian Analysis
Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari
2024
Noa Kallioinen, Topi Paananen, Paul Christian Bürkner, Aki Vehtari
2024
STATISTICS AND COMPUTING