Satu Helske
Senior Research Fellow at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
Turku, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolSatu Helske is a senior research fellow at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre and leader of the PREDLIFE consortium, bridging advanced statistics and sociological inquiry. With a PhD in Statistics and a habilitation in Sociology, she specializes in inequality, intergenerational life courses, parental leave, and longitudinal sequence analysis, applying rigorous methods to policy-relevant questions. She is the author of the seqHMM package in R, reflecting her commitment to making sophisticated analytical tools accessible to researchers in social science. Her career spans international roles at the University of Jyväskylä, Oxford, Linköping, and the University of Turku, where she currently leads research activities in Turku, Finland. Based in Turku, she combines deep methodological expertise with a track record of leading large-scale, interdisciplinary projects that translate data into actionable insights.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at University of JyväskyläStatistics, Statistics at University of Bristol
Finnish, English, German, Swedish, French
Github Skills (25)
hidden10
r10
categorical-data10
time-series10
data-storage10
hidden-markov-models10
categorical10
markov10
principal-component-analysis10
markov-models10
r-package9
network-graph9
igraph9
mathematics8
network-analysis7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
satuhelske/R_et_co
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
helske/seqHMM
Mar 2015 - May 2021
Multivariate and Multichannel Discrete Hidden Markov Models for Categorical Sequences
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 2 months
principal-component-analysismultichannelr-programmingdata-storageem-algorithm
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