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Basics

Name Santeri Heiskanen
Email firstname.lastname@aalto.fi

Work

  • 08.2024 - Present
    Research assistant
    Robot learning Lab, Aalto University
    Developing neural architecture search methods for large search spaces to enable the discovery of novel arcitectures.
  • 05.2023 - 08.2023
    Research assistant
    Speech and coginition research group, Tampere University
    Developed a customazible GUI for time-series annotation. Compared to the existing solutions, the created tool was able to display multiple different data-sources, such as EEG, speech and video
  • 05.2023 - 08.2023
    Machine learning engineer
    Capalo AI
    • Developed a simulation framework for Nordic electricity pricing markets.
    • Refined existing multi-market optimization algorithm for day-ahead electricity trading with batteries.
  • 05.2022 - 08.2022
    Machine learning and programming intern
    Device concept lab, Huawei Technologies Finland
    • Worked with a parameter estimation problem with a small-scale dataset with a large proportion of missing values.
    • The problem was cast to a data imputation task, allowing one to utilize existing research to solve the problem.
  • 05.2021 - 08.2021
    Discrete optimization and programming intern
    Device concept lab, Huawei Technologies Finland
    • Developed a tool for solving discrete optimization problems, which supported multiple higher-level programming languages.
    • The developed methodology improved the previously found solutions and solved previously unattainable problmes.
  • 05.2020 - 08.2020
    Research assistant
    Faculty of management and business, Tampere University
    Main responsibilities included web-scraping and exploring options for implementing a natural language parser for Finnish text.
  • - Present
    Research assistant
    Teaching assistant, Faculty of engineering and natural sciences, Tampere University
    Organized and taught weekly exercise sessions in an introductory course on automation and control system theory

Education

  • 09.2022 - 10.2024

    Tampere Finland

    MSc degree
    Tampere University
    Computer science
  • 10.2018 - 06.2022

    Tampere Finland

    BSc degree
    Tampere University
    Computer science

Awards

Skills

Programming
Python (Pytorch, Tensorflow)
C++ (Templates, Smart-pointers)
Julia
Matlab
R
Lua
JavaScript
Miscellaneuous
Latex
Git
HPC (slurm)
Linux
Bash
Zsh
SQL
Typst

Languages

Finnish
Native speaker
English
C1

Projects