He received M.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology in theoretical physics, 1992, and Ph.D. from MIT in computational neuroscience, 1997. Following a postdoctoral position in computational molecular biology (DOE/Sloan postdoctoral fellow) he joined the MIT EECS faculty 1998. He is currently a Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science, on the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence Research, and an action editor of Machine Learning Research. Prof. Jaakkola's research covers machine learning, information retrieval, and computational biology.