Tommi Jaakkola

Thomas Siebel Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IDSS

Tommi Jaakkola is the Thomas Siebel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Jaakkola received his MSc in theoretical physics from Helsinki University of Technology, 1992, and PhD from MIT in computational neuroscience, 1997. Following a postdoctoral position in computational molecular biology (DOE/Sloan fellow, UCSC) he joined the MIT EECS faculty 1998. His applied research focuses on problems in computational functional genomics such as transcriptional regulation.