He received his D.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology in 2004. He is an associate editor of Neural Processing Letters and an editorial board member of Heliyon. He has served in organising committees of seven international conferences and one international summer school and in program committees of 24 international conferences/workshops, and has referee duties for numerous international journals and conferences. He is an expert in statistical machine learning methods for exploratory data analysis, visualisation of data, and learning from multiple sources.