Pauli Miettinen received his PhD degree in computer science from University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2009. His thesis was supervised by Prof. Heikki Mannila. 

From 2010 to 2013 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and from 2013 until 2018 a Senior Researcher at Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. Since 2018, he has been a Professor of Data Science at University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, Finland. He is an author of more than fifty peer reviewed articles. His research interests include matrix and tensor factorizations over non-standard algebras, graph mining and social network analysis, redescription mining, and applications of data mining techniques. He is an action editor of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Springer).

Prof. Miettinen has won three best paper awards. He was the program co-chair for 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.