{"id":3897,"date":"2023-08-30T15:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/?page_id=3897"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:15:31","slug":"miika-vainikka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/staff\/miika-vainikka\/","title":{"rendered":"Miika Vainikka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doctoral Researcher, M.Sc. (Tech.)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/02\/Vainikka_Miika_0023-10x15cm-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/02\/Vainikka_Miika_0023-10x15cm-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/02\/Vainikka_Miika_0023-10x15cm-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/02\/Vainikka_Miika_0023-10x15cm-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/02\/Vainikka_Miika_0023-10x15cm-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/star\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/02\/Vainikka_Miika_0023-10x15cm.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Room:<\/strong> Canthia 2065<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Email:<\/strong> miikvain[at]uef.fi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year of birth:<\/strong> 1998<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Current research interests:<\/strong> Deep learning and self-supervised methods for modeling sleep physiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Current and previous experience:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Doctoral Researcher, Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 1.1.2025\u2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Assistant (part-time), Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 1.9.2023\u201331.12.2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Assistant, Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 30.5.2023\u20134.8.2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 1.6.2022\u201331.8.2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teaching Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 1.9.2021\u20131.6.2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 31.5.2021\u201329.8.2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Education:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M.Sc (Technical Physics), University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.Sc. (Applied Physics), University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio, Finland), 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Graduate of Finnish Upper Secondary School, Lappeenrannan Lyseon Lukio (Lappeenranta, Finland), 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Skills:<\/strong> Programming, Data analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Language proficiency:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Finnish, native language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>English, fluent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Swedish, basics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spanish, basics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hobbies: <\/strong>Trail running, cross-country skiing, reading, guitar, video games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral Researcher, M.Sc. (Tech.) 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