Krista H Lagus
Summary
Krista H. Lagus is a Finnish professor and researcher specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and digital social science. She currently serves as a Professor of Digital Social Science at the University of Helsinki, where she integrates AI and digital methods with social sciences to analyze complex social behaviors.
Lagus earned her M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences in 2000 from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University). She has held various research positions, including Academy Research Fellow at the Finnish Academy of Sciences from 2006 to 2012. In 2019, she co-founded the Center for Social Data Science (CSDS) at the University of Helsinki and became its first director.
University of Helsinki
Her notable projects include WEBSOM, a method for visualizing large text collections using self-organizing maps; Citizen Mindscapes, which examines digital communication to gauge public opinion and societal trends; and Morfessor, an algorithm for unsupervised morphological analysis widely used in NLP. Her publications have appeared in leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Information Sciences, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Review, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, and Cognitive Science.
In addition to her research, Lagus teaches and supervises students in AI and digital social science, contributing to interdisciplinary research and education that leverages AI for societal benefit.
Computational Linguistics Data Mining & Machine Learning Data Science
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