Leo Lahti
Associate Professor
leo.lahti@utu.fi +358 29 450 2390 +358 50 436 4626 Agora Office: 452E ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5537-637X |
Data science; AI; Machine Learning; Applied statistics; Statistical programming; Probabilistic models; Complex natural and social systems; Microbial ecology; Computational humanities; Open knowledge
Leo Lahti is associate professor in Data Science in University of Turku, Finland. His research team focuses on computational analysis and modeling of complex natural and social systems. Lahti obtained doctoral degree (DSc) in statistical machine learning and bioinformatics from Aalto University in Finland (2010), developing probabilistic data integration methods for high-throughput life science data. This was followed by subsequent postdoctoral research at EBI/Hinxton (UK), Wageningen University (NL), and VIB/KU Leuven (BE). Lahti has coordinated international networks in data science methods and applications, including e.g. the COST action on statistical and machine learning methods in microbiome studies, and organizes international training events on a regular basis. He is a founder of the open science work group of Open Knowledge Finland ry. For more information, see the research homepage iki.fi/Leo.Lahti
Computational scientist focusing on change in complex natural and social systems, and how they can be understood through a computational lens.
Computational and data science, statistical and probabilistic programming, machine learning, AI, applied statistics, ecological models, open science
- Can gut microbiota throughout the first 10 years of life predict executive functioning in childhood? (2022)
- Developmental Psychobiology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Combined effects of host genetics and diet on human gut microbiota and incident disease in a single population cohort (2022)
- Nature Genetics
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Gut Microbiome Composition Is Predictive of Incident Type 2 Diabetes in a Population Cohort of 5,572 Finnish Adults (2022)
- Diabetes Care
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Phylogeny-Aware Analysis of Metagenome Community Ecology Based on Matched Reference Genomes while Bypassing Taxonomy (2022)
- MSystems
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Potential pathobionts in vaginal microbiota are affected by fish oil and/or probiotics intervention in overweight and obese pregnant women (2022)
- Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Skin microbiota diversity among genetically unrelated individuals of Indian origin (2022)
- PeerJ
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Towards standardized and reproducible research in skin microbiomes (2022)
- Environmental Microbiology
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Applications of Machine Learning in Human Microbiome Studies: A Review on Feature Selection, Biomarker Identification, Disease Prediction and Treatment (2021)
- Frontiers in Microbiology
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Comprehensive biomarker profiling of hypertension in 36 985 Finnish individuals (2021)
- Journal of Hypertension
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Corpus Linguistics and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (2021)
- Research in Corpus Linguistics
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Efficient computation of Faith's phylogenetic diversity with applications in characterizing microbiomes (2021)
- Genome Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Examining the Early Modern Canon: The English Short Title Catalogue and Large-Scale Patterns of Cultural Production (2021) Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture Tolonen Mikko, Hill Mark J., Ijaz Ali Z., Vaara Ville, Lahti Leo
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience (2021)
- Science
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Gut microbiota diversity but not composition is related to saliva cortisol stress response at the age of 2.5 months (2021)
- Stress
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Gut microbiota of patients with different subtypes of gastric cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (2021)
- Gut Pathogens
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Impact of combined consumption of fish oil and probiotics on the serum metabolome in pregnant women with overweight or obesity (2021)
- EBioMedicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Public appeal to the Finnish parliament to join the United Nations international agreement to ban nuclear weapons. Signed together with 121 Finnish influencers in research, culture and politics. January 2021. (2021) Lahti Leo
(Other (O2)) - Laki estää tehokkaiden tutkimusmenetelmien käytön (2021)
- Helsingin Sanomat
(Other (O2)) - Links between gut microbiome composition and fatty liver disease in a large population sample (2021)
- Gut Microbes
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Modelling spatial patterns in host-associated microbial communities (2021)
- Environmental Microbiology
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2))