Leo Lahti
Professor
leo.lahti@utu.fi +358 29 450 2390 +358 50 436 4626 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku : 452E |
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 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) from Aalto University in Finland (2010), developing probabilistic machine learning methods for high-throughput life science data integration. 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 and organizes international data science training events on a regular basis. He is vice chair for the national coordination on open science Finland, executive committee member for the International Science Council Committee on Data (2023-2025), member of the global Bioconductor Community Advisory Board, and 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
- Multi-Trait Genetic Analysis Reveals Clinically Interpretable Hypertension Subtypes (2022)
- Circulation: Genomic and Precision MedicineEnvironmental Microbiology
- Phylogeny-Aware Analysis of Metagenome Community Ecology Based on Matched Reference Genomes while Bypassing Taxonomy (2022)
- MSystems
- Potential pathobionts in vaginal microbiota are affected by fish oil and/or probiotics intervention in overweight and obese pregnant women (2022)
- Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
- Probabilistic Multivariate Early Warning SignalsEfficient computation of Faith's phylogenetic diversity with applications in characterizing microbiomes (2022)
- Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceGenome Research
- Quantifying the impact of ecological memory on the dynamics of interacting communities (2022)
- PLoS Computational Biology
- Skin microbiota diversity among genetically unrelated individuals of Indian originGut microbiota diversity but not composition is related to saliva cortisol stress response at the age of 2.5 months (2022)
- PeerJ
- The Anatomy of eighteenth Century Collections online (eCCO)1 (2022)
- Eighteenth Century Studies
- Towards standardized and reproducible research in skin microbiomes (2022)
- Applications of Machine Learning in Human Microbiome Studies: A Review on Feature Selection, Biomarker Identification, Disease Prediction and Treatment (2021)
- Frontiers in microbiologyEBioMedicine
- Corpus Linguistics and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (2021)
- Research in Corpus Linguistics
- 2021
- Examining the Early Modern Canon: The English Short Title Catalogue and Large-Scale Patterns of Cultural ProductionLinks between gut microbiome composition and fatty liver disease in a large population sample (2021) Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture Tolonen Mikko, Hill Mark J., Ijaz Ali Z., Vaara Ville, Lahti Leo
- Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience (2021)
- ScienceGut Microbes
- (2021)
- StressEnvironmental Microbiology
- Gut microbiota of patients with different subtypes of gastric cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (2021)
- Gut Pathogens
- Impact of combined consumption of fish oil and probiotics on the serum metabolome in pregnant women with overweight or obesity (2021)
- 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
- Laki estää tehokkaiden tutkimusmenetelmien käytön (2021)
- Helsingin Sanomat
- (2021)
- Modelling spatial patterns in host-associated microbial communities (2021)



