Michael Kampffmeyer after receiving the Young Researcher award at UiT's annual celebration
Michael Kampffmeyer is one of UiT's youngest professors and has already distinguished himself through his contributions to AI research. He has now won UiT's award for young researchers at the university's annual celebration.
Michael Kampffmeyer is one of UiT's youngest professors and has already distinguished himself with his contributions to AI research. He has now won UiT's award for young researchers at the university's annual celebration.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communications Advisor at SFI Visual Intelligence
"It's a great honor to receive this recognition, especially in the company of other young and excellent researchers at the university."
This is what Kampffmeyer says after receiving the award. It is given to young researchers aged 40 and under who has distinguished themselves through outstanding research or artistic development work. He is a professor at SFI Visual Intelligence and the UiT Machine Learning Group.
"Research is not a one-man job. There is a lot of teamwork behind our efforts. I want to thank everyone involved, especially the Machine Learning Group, the students, international collaborators and the institute administration for the great support which makes our possible," Kampffmeyer adds.
Kampffmeyer became professor at the young age of 32 and has in short time distinguished himself as a young research talent. He has contributed to novel and innovative AI methods in fields like health and remote sensing.
His work focuses on developing more efficient and responsible AI that offers better explainability, quantifies uncertainty, and requires less training data. He has received several national and international awards for his contributions to AI research.
With over 90 publications in internationally recognized journals and conferences, Kampffmeyer has headed large externally funded research projects, and supervised seven PhD candidates. He currently supervises ten candidates on the doctoral level.
Through Visual Intelligence, Kampffmeyer has contributed to new AI innovations in close collaboration with partners from the private and public sector. He has established a broad collaborative network between UiT and leading AI research communities in the USA, Europe and Asia. He is a central figure in the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference – which gathers AI researchers from 28 different countries to Tromsø annually.
Centre director Robert Jenssen congratulates Kampffmeyer on the award and says it is an important recognition of his work.
"Michael has an impressive research portfolio of significant contributions to AI research. Few researchers have managed to achieve so much in just a few years. We are very grateful to have such hard-working colleagues like Michael in Visual Intelligence," Jenssen says.
The Visual Intelligence Annual Report 2025, highlighting the centre's progress, activities, achieved innovations, staff, funding, and publications for 2025, is now available to read on our websites.
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Congratulations to Centre Director Robert Jenssen, who received UiT's Research and Development Award at the university's annual celebration.
Visual Intelligence researchers contributed to the Pioneer Centre for AI workshop on Electronic Health Records research. The aim was to strengthen ties between the two centres on EHR-related research.
Tre av studentene i sivilingeniør i Kunstig Intelligens ved UiT skal delta i NM i KI. Slik gikk det da de ble intervjuet ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens (News article on nordlys.no).
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Rami Al-Belmpeisi is a PhD Research Fellow in the Visual Computing section at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark. He visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from November 2025 to February 2026.
Visual Intelligence researchers came to the UiT Open Day to inform the students about UiT's study programme, and inspire them to pursue AI-related studies and career paths.
Congratulations to our colleague Michael Kampffmeyer, who received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Young Researchers in 2026.
We happily welcome Rahul Baburajan as a new PhD Research Fellow at SFI Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø.
Congratulations to our colleague Sarina Thomas, who has been recognized as one of Norway's Top 50 Women in Tech!
Elisabeth Wetzer forsker på hvordan maskiner kan lære å analysere medisinske bilder – og samtidig forstå hva legene faktisk ser etter (Norwegian news article on dagsavisen.no)
Visual Intelligence researchers organized a preparatory course for UiT AI students who are attending this year's Norwegian AI Championship.
We happily welcome Veronica Lachi and Qing Liu as new Associate Professors at SFI Visual Intelligence.
Artur Radzivil is a PhD Research Fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. He visited Visual Intelligence in Oslo from September to November 2025.
Congratulations to Marius Aasan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on February 10th.
We had the pleasure of talking to UiT students about the career opportunities at SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT at TEKdagen 2026.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen met with Sigrun Aasland, Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, alongside UiT and Aker Nscale representatives to give an update on Aker Nscale's AI Giga Factory in Narvik, Norway.
Zheming Xu is a PhD Research Fellow at Beijing Jiaotong University. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from September 2025 to January 2026.
Få kvinner søker seg til fag innenfor kunstig intelligens. Det kan skape blindsoner, mener ekspert (Norwegian news story in NRK.no).
Visual Intelligence was represented by Centre Director Robert Jenssen, Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm, and VI Alumna Sara Björk at the Arctic Frontiers side session "How can AI and satellite collaboration strengthen Arctic resilience?".
Petter Tømmeraas, Director of Data Center Services at Aker Nscale, visited SFI Visual Intelligence to learn more about our research projects and AI startups established by former UiT students.