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Basics
| Name | Santeri Heiskanen |
| firstname.lastname@aalto.fi |
Work
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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
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09.2022 - 10.2024 Tampere Finland
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10.2018 - 06.2022 Tampere Finland
Awards
- 01.2023
Best BSc thesis award
Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology
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
- 05.2024 - 09.2023
(MSc thesis) Generalizing Pareto Optimal Policies in multi-objective reinforcement learning
Quantum computing is the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform computation. Computers that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers.
- Quantum Teleportation
- Quantum Cryptography