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/...
Email
[email protected]
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