Jaak Vilo#
| Membership Number: | 7486 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ESTONIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.etis.ee/CV/Jaak_Vilo/eng/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5604-4107 |
| X: | @jaakvilo |
| Bluesky: | @jaakvilo.bsky.social |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/jaak.vilo |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaakvilo/ |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=87E06MgAAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Professor of Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia
- 2011 - 2022, 2026 - present Head of the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu
- 2025 - present Vice President, Estonian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 - present Head of Research, STACC Ltd (R&D company), Estonia
- 2019 - present EMBL Council member
- 2006 - 2015 Member of the Management Board, Quretec OÜ, Estonia
- 2002 - 2006 Head of Informatics, EGeen International (Inc), Estonia
- 1999 - 2002 EMBL-EBI, Senior Technical Officer. Cambridge, UK
- 1991 - 1999 Research and Teaching assistant, Institute of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. Finland
- 1990 - 1991 Programmer, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial intelligence
- Health Data Analytics
- Data science
- Bioinformatics
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Grand Medal, University of Tartu
- 2020 ACM Senior Member
- 2016 Small Medal, University of Tartu
- 2014 The "Person of the Year of 2013" by the Estonian Association of ICT companies
- 2013 Order of the White Star, III class, Estonia
- 2012 Full Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
