Pekka Malo

Professori (Associate professor)
Professori (Associate professor)
E704 Dept. Information and Service Management

Pekka Malo is a tenured Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Information and Service Management at Aalto University School of Business, Finland. He has a PhD degree in quantitative methods and M.Sc. degree in mathematics from University of Helsinki. He also holds M.Sc degree in Finance from Helsinki School of Economics. He has worked as a visiting scholar in computational optimization and innovation laboratory at Michigan State University in the Depertment of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests include optimization, machine learning, computational statistics and their applications to sustainable management of natural resources.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Phone number
+358403538071

Areas of expertise

Machine learning, Data Science, Business analytics, Artificial intelligence, Optimization, Computational Intelligence, Multi-criteria decision analysis, Text mining, Data mining, Big data, Decision Analysis, 512 Business and management, 112 Statistics and probability, 111 Mathematics, 113 Computer and information sciences, Computational data analysis, Statistics, Applied mathematics

Honors and awards

Best Paper Nomination (2nd place) in the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Information and Service Management Jun 2020

Helsinki School of Economics award for high quality thesis

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Information and Service Management Jan 2007

Best paper award for the paper “Semantic Content Filtering with Wikipedia and Ontologies” in Semantic Aspects in Data Mining

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Information and Service Management Jan 2010

Publications

Convex Regularization and Convergence of Policy Gradient Flows under Safety Constraints

Pekka Malo, Lauri Viitasaari, Antti Suominen, Eeva Vilkkumaa, Olli Tahvonen 2028

Effects of many conflicting objectives on decision-makers’ cognitive burden and decision consistency

J. Matias Kivikangas, Eeva Vilkkumaa, Julian Blank, Ville Harjunen, Pekka Malo, Kalyanmoy Deb, Niklas J. Ravaja, Jyrki Wallenius 2024 European Journal of Operational Research

Modeling project interactions in multiattribute portfolio decision analysis : Axiomatic foundations and practical implications

Juuso Liesiö, Taeyoung Kee, Pekka Malo 2024 European Journal of Operational Research

Computing Synthetic Controls Using Bilevel Optimization

Pekka Malo, Juha Eskelinen, Xun Zhou, Timo Kuosmanen 2024 Computational Economics

Assessing economic benefits and costs of carbon sinks in boreal rotation forestry

Vesa-Pekka Parkatti, Antti Suominen, Olli Tahvonen, Pekka Malo 2024 Forest Policy and Economics

Predicting Visit Cost of Obstructive Sleep Apnea using Electronic Healthcare Records with Transformer

Zhaoyang Chen, Lina Siltala-Li, Mikko Lassila, Pekka Malo, Eeva Vilkkumaa, Tarja Saaresranta, Arho Veli Virkki 2023 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

Private firms’ tax aggressiveness and lightweight pre-tax-audit interventions by the tax administration

Hannu Ojala, Pekka Malo, Esko Penttinen 2023 Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation

Generating Research Questions from Digital Trace Data: A Machine Learning Method for Discovering Patterns in a Dynamic Environment

Henrik Kallio, Pekka Malo, Timo Lainema, Johanna Bragge, Tomi Seppälä, Esko Penttinen 2022 Communications of the Association for Information Systems

SEntFiN 1.0

Ankur Sinha, Satishwar Kedas, Rishu Kumar, Pekka Malo 2022 JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Optimizing high-dimensional stochastic forestry via reinforcement learning

Olli Tahvonen, Antti Suominen, Pekka Malo, Lauri Viitasaari, Vesa-Pekka Parkatti 2022 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control