From the left: Centre Director Robert Jenssen, Petter Tømmeraas, UiT Vice Rector Bente Haug, Dean Bjørn-Morten Batalden
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.
Petter Tømmeraas, Director of Data Centre Services at Aker Nscale, visited SFI Visual Intelligence to learn more about our research projects and AI startups established by former UiT students.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communications Officer at SFI Visual Intelligence
The visit's background is the 10-year agreement between Aker Nscale and UiT to develop and strengthen AI competence and innovation in Narvik and North Norway.
Robert Jenssen presented SFI Visual Intelligence: a Norwegian Centre for Research-Based Innovation which researches and develops AI solutions in close collaboration with Norwegian industry and public sector partners.
Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen, two VI PhD Research Fellows, showcased their projects and how these can contribute to more efficient and innovation-driven healthcare services in and outside Norway.
Thrun's project focuses on risk-based screening with AI for early detection of breast cancer in collaboration with industry partner Cancer Registry of Norway (Kreftregisteret).
Salomonsen's project uses deep learning to non-invasively estimate the arterial input function, a critical component of dynamic PET imaging which is required for drug development and cancer research. His project is done in collaboration with partner Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge.
Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm presented our ongoing collaboration with industry partner KSAT – Kongsberg Satellite Services – which includes projects on sustainable oil spill monitoring and vessel detection.
Johannes H. Nilsen presented Abdera.ai: an AI startup formed by him and former Visual Intelligence master student Erland Grimstad. Abdera offers AI-driven solutions for moderating comment sections and discussions on social media and online fora.
UiT Innovation Coordinator Anna Dranovska told Tømmeraas about Medsensio: a health technology company which offers AI systems to automatically detect abnormal lung and heart sounds.
UiT Prorector for Research Jørgen Berge, Vice Rector Bente Haug, and Dean Bjørn-Morten Batalden was also present alongside Tømmeraas and Visual Intelligence's researchers for a fruitful discussion about the presented projects and startups.
Zheming Xu is a PhD Research Fellow at Beijing Jiaotong University. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from September 2025 to January 2026.
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.
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can automatically measure the heart's structure – both quickly and accurately (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no)
Congratulations to Jørgen Agersborg, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on November 28th.
State Secretary Marianne Wilhelmsen visited UiT The Arctic University of Norway to learn more about SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT's AI initiatives in education and research.
KI-chatboten Grok har fortalt brukere at verdens rikeste mann er både smartere og sprekere enn noen andre i verden – inkludert basketballstjernen LeBron James og Leonardo da Vinci (Norwegian news article on tv2.no)
Forskere har utviklet kunstig intelligens som automatisk kan måle hjertets struktur – både raskt og presist (Norwegian popular science article on forskning.no)
The Visual Intelligence Graduate School gathered our early career researchers for a 3-Day Science Communication workshop at Skibotn field station outside of Tromsø, Norway.
Onsdag inngikk Aker Nscale og UiT Norges arktiske universitet en ti-årig samarbeidsavtale for å utvikle og styrke kompetansemiljøene for kunstig intelligens i Narvik og Nord-Norge. Aker Nscale garanterer for 100 millioner kroner i avtaleperioden (news story on uit.no)
Centre Director Robert Jenssen and PhD Candidate Lars Uebbing had two fruitful days together with researchers at The Alan Turing Institute's headquarters in London