Doctoral Researcher in Probabilistic Machine Learning

Doctoral Researcher in Probabilistic Machine Learning

Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto has six schools with 14 000 students and a staff of 5000, of which more than 400 are professors. Our main campus is located in Espoo, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community's diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.

The Department of Computer Science is an internationally-oriented community and home to world-class research in modern computer science, combining research on foundations and innovative applications. With over 40 professors and more than 450 employees from 50 countries, it is the largest department at Aalto University and the leading computer science research unit in northern Europe. Computer science research at Aalto University ranks high in several international surveys (7th in Europe and 1st in the Nordics (NTU 2023); and 88th worldwide in Times Higher Education subject ranking 2025).

We are now looking for a:

Doctoral Researcher

We are looking for a doctoral researcher(PhD student) with a strong background in probabilistic machine learning, statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, or a related field, and strong programming skills, to work on biology-informed machine learning for dynamical systems (see project description below). The position is based at the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, Finland, within a research environment spanning the Computational Systems Biology group, the Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI), and ELLIS Institute Finland. You will be supervised by Dr Julien Martinelli and Associate Professor Harri Lähdesmäki. The position offers a broad local research network in Bayesian machine learni