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.
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.
We happily welcome Keyne Oei and Boye Sjo as new PhD Research Fellows at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø and Oslo respectively.
Congratulations to Børge Solli Andreassen, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on December 18th 2025.
Attracting 280 international AI researchers, the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) 2026 was successfully organized from January 5th to 9th 2026 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence hosted a special NLDL 2026 mentoring session for young researchers with Professor Mihaela van der Schaar – a globally renowned AI researcher and expert
Centre Director and NLDL General Chair Robert Jenssen was interviewed by NRK about this year's Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference.
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270 KI-eksperter fra nært og fjernt møtes ved UiT for å dele siste forskningsnytt. Et av formålene er å styrke internasjonale bånd og samarbeid på tvers av det globale KI-miljøet (Norwegian news article on uit.no)
Med ferske millioner på konto skal Senter for pasientnær kunstig intelligens (SPKI) ved UNN bidra i et stort nasjonalt KI-prosjekt de neste fire årene (News article on unn.no)
We happily welcome Zijun Sun as a new Doctoral Research Fellow at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø, Norway.
The Visual Intelligence Management Team, Robert Jenssen, Line Eikvil, Anne Solberg, and Inger Solheim, wishes everyone a happy holiday season and new year!
Several of our researchers represented SFI Visual Intelligence at EurIPS 2025 – the NeurIPS-endorsed European AI conference.
Congratulations to Senior Research Scientist Anders Waldeland, who was awarded the Digital Trailblazer Award 2025 at the Dig X Subsurface conference in Oslo, Norway.