2026 Aapo Hyvärinen: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	73	1531	1485	7	6	317	78162

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Finland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Finland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Aapo Hyvärinen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of computer science and neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and signal processing.

Their work addresses various topics including:

Blind Source Separation Techniques
Neural Networks and Applications
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Among recent publications, the following papers are notable:

"Uncovering the structure of clinical EEG signals with self-supervised learning," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Brain activity reflects the predictability of word sequences in listened continuous speech," 2020, NeuroImage
"Nonlinear ICA of fMRI reveals primitive temporal structures linked to rest, task, and behavioral traits," 2020, NeuroImage
"ICE-BeeM: Identifiable Conditional Energy-Based Deep Models Based on Nonlinear ICA," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Interpretable brain age prediction using linear latent variable models of functional connectivity," 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors include:

Alexandre Gramfort
Ilyes Khemakhem
Omar Chehab
Hiroshi Morioka
Hermanni Hälvä

The primary venues where this researcher frequently publishes are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
NeuroImage
Helda (University of Helsinki)
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Imaging Neuroscience

Best Publications

Independent component analysis: algorithms and applications

A. Hyvärinen;E. Oja

23927
Citations
Fast and robust fixed-point algorithms for independent component analysis

A. Hyvarinen

8811
Citations
Independent Component Analysis

Aapo Hyvarinen;Juha Karhunen;Erkki Oja

8376
Citations
Independent Component Analysis

Unknown

5414
Citations
A fast fixed-point algorithm for independent component analysis

Aapo Hyvärinen;Erkki Oja

4903
Citations
Survey on Independent Component Analysis

A. Hyvärinen

1952
Citations
Noise-contrastive estimation: A new estimation principle for unnormalized statistical models

Michael Gutmann;Aapo Hyvärinen

1527
Citations
Validating the independent components of neuroimaging time series via clustering and visualization.

Johan Himberg;Aapo Hyvärinen;Fabrizio Esposito

1398
Citations
A Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Model for Causal Discovery

Shohei Shimizu;Patrik O. Hoyer;Aapo Hyvärinen;Antti Kerminen

1376
Citations
A fast fixed-point algorithm for independent component analysis of complex valued signals.

Ella Bingham;Aapo Hyvärinen

1096
Citations
Estimation of Non-Normalized Statistical Models by Score Matching

Aapo Hyvärinen

907
Citations
Noise-contrastive estimation of unnormalized statistical models, with applications to natural image statistics

Michael U. Gutmann;Aapo Hyvärinen

786
Citations
Emergence of Phase- and Shift-Invariant Features by Decomposition of Natural Images into Independent Feature Subspaces

Aapo Hyvärinen;Patrik Hoyer

755
Citations
New Approximations of Differential Entropy for Independent Component Analysis and Projection Pursuit

Aapo Hyvärinen

696
Citations
Nonlinear independent component analysis: existence and uniqueness results

Aapo Hyvärinen;Petteri Pajunen

635
Citations
Topographic Independent Component Analysis

Aapo Hyvärinen;Patrik O. Hoyer;Mika O. Inki

635
Citations
Sparse code shrinkage: denoising of nongaussian data by maximum likelihood estimation

Aapo Hyvärinen

604
Citations
Independent component analysis of nondeterministic fMRI signal sources.

Vesa Kiviniemi;Juha-Heikki Kantola;Jukka Jauhiainen;Aapo Hyvärinen

475
Citations
Independent component analysis: recent advances.

Aapo Hyvärinen

452
Citations
Independent component analysis of fMRI group studies by self-organizing clustering

Fabrizio Esposito;Tommaso Scarabino;Aapo Hyvarinen;Johan Himberg

426
Citations
DirectLiNGAM: A Direct Method for Learning a Linear Non-Gaussian Structural Equation Model

Shohei Shimizu;Takanori Inazumi;Yasuhiro Sogawa;Aapo Hyvärinen

416
Citations
Natural Image Statistics

Aapo Hyvärinen;Jarmo Hurri;Patrik O. Hoyer

358
Citations
On the identifiability of the post-nonlinear causal model

Kun Zhang;Aapo Hyvärinen

327
Citations
Variational Autoencoders and Nonlinear ICA: A Unifying Framework

Ilyes Khemakhem;Diederik P. Kingma;Ricardo Pio Monti;Aapo Hyvarinen;Aapo Hyvarinen

162
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrik O. Hoyer University of Helsinki

Erkki Oja Aalto University

Juha Karhunen Aalto University

Kun Zhang Carnegie Mellon University

Lauri Parkkonen Aalto University

Alexandre Gramfort META

Motoaki Kawanabe Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

Riitta Hari Aalto University

Vesa Kiviniemi Oulu University Hospital

Masashi Sugiyama RIKEN

External Links

Personal website of Aapo Hyvärinen Google Scholar page

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