Erkki Oja (born 22 March 1948) is a Finnish computer scientist and Aalto Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University School of Science.
[1] He is recognized for developing Oja's rule,[2] which is a model of how neurons in the brain or in artificial neural networks learn over time.
From 1987 to 1993, he was a professor in computer science at the Lappeenranta University of Technology.
[3] Oja is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and the IEEE, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences.
[5] Oja was a member of the Board of Governors for the International Neural Network Society (INNIS) in 2003.