Jorma LaaksonenJorma Laaksonen has worked with Prof. Erkki Oja since 1994 and got his Dr. of Science in Technology degree in 1997 from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Presently he is a permanent teaching research scientist at the Department of Informatin and Computer Science, Aalto School of Science where he has instructed eight doctoral theses in the supervision of Prof. Oja. He is an author of 200 scientific journal, conference and edited book papers on pattern recognition, statistical classification, machine learning and neural networks, with Google Scholar h-index 27. His research interests are in content-based multimodal information retrieval and computer vision. Dr. Laaksonen is an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE senior member, and a founding member of the SOM and LVQ Programming Teams and the PicSOM Development Group. Read More Read Less