Dr Seppo Virtanen
- Position: Lecturer in Statistics
- Areas of expertise: Bayesian statistics; data science; factor models; latent variable models; learning from multiple data sources; spatio-temporal methods; topic modelling
- Email: S.Virtanen@leeds.ac.uk
Research interests
My aim is to develop and apply statistical methods for targeting important real-world applications in various research fields including life sciences, health, urban analytics and natural language processing (NLP). I have a strong focus on combining information from multiple data sources using Bayesian spatio-temporal latent variable modelling. I have recently worked on data integration for omics data, combining text-based data sources and streams for providing more interpretable insights and spatio-temporal crime analysis.
Qualifications
- PhD in Statistics, Aalto University
Research groups and institutes
- Statistics