Antti Airola, is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of data science in the area of Health Technology at the University of Turku. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles, won multiple international data science competitions, and received several research excellence awards such as the the HATUTUS award for the best PhD thesis in the area of pattern recognition in Finland (2010 - 2011) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Paper award (2015). He is currently working as responsible leader in several Academy of Finland and Business Finland funded research projects.

Airola is currently responsible for teaching the course TKO_3103 Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, as well as thesis supervision work (BSc, MSc, PhD). He has developed materials for and taught in many courses in the area of data and computer science, is responsible for developing the curriculum for both national BSc and MSc Medical and health technology programmes, as well as the international MSc programme in Health technology, and directs the AI Academy that coordinates AI related teaching between the faculties.

Airola's main research areas are in the area of machine learning and data science, especially their applications in the health domain. He currently leads two Academy of Finland funded projects related to the area of biomedical interaction prediction, and the Business Finland PRIVASA project on privacy-preserving AI for health data.