Erkki Oja is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 computer scientist

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

. He is a professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University

Aalto University

Aalto University is a Finnish university established on January 1, 2010, by the merger of the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of Art and Design Helsinki....

 School of Science and Technology, the director of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre and chairman of the Academy of Finland

Academy of Finland

The Academy of Finland is a governmental funding body for scientific research in Finland. It is based in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Yearly, the Academy administers over 260 million euros to Finnish research activities. Over 5,000 researchers are working on the projects supported by the academy...

's Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering.

Oja is a prominent scientist in the area of artificial neural networks. Oja's rule

Oja's rule

Oja's learning rule, or simply Oja's rule, named after a Finnish computer scientist Erkki Oja, is a model of how neurons in the brain or in artificial neural networks change connection strength, or learn, over time...

is a model of how neurons in the brain or in artificial neural networks learn over time.