Hi! My name is Eric Malmi and I’m an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University. This blog contains old posts of mine from the time I was a PhD student in 2014-2018 in the Data Mining Group. More info about the origins of this blog can be found in my first post.

You can find me on LinkedIn, X, Google Scholar, and I also have an academic website.

A random fact: My data science idol is Chloe O’Brian; she works well under pressure, you can always count on her, and she can run any database query in a few seconds! 🙂

UPDATE(2026): If I were to rewrite the above random fact from 2014, I would probably name someone else as my “(data) science idol” but I think the above still captures well some of the characteristics that I value and strive towards.