Biography
I am an associate professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the group leader of the UiT Machine Learning Group, a principal investigator in the SFI Visual Intelligence, and the SFF Integreat. I am head of the Applied Physics and Mathematics study program at UiT. My main research area is deep learning, with a particular focus on explainability and learning with limited labels. I am also interested in uncertainty modeling, information theory, kernel methods, and medical image analysis.
I am co-chair for the winter school of the yearly Northern Lights Deep Learning conference, a board member for the Norwegian Association for Image Processing and Machine Learning, and a member of the ELLIS Society.
I have previously been a guest researcher in the Image Processing Laboratory at the University of Valencia with Professor Gustau Camps-Valls, in the Understandable Machine Intelligence Laboratory at the Technical University of Berlin with Professor Marina M.-C. Höhne, and in the Section for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Denmark with Professor Lars Kai Hansen.
See Google Scholar for a list of my publications.
Recent news
======
- 2026-09 Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2026 (September, 2026).
- 2026-09 Invited talk "KI og fremtiden for administrative tjenester" at the gathering of the entire Department of Organisation and Economy (org.øk) at UiT, Tromsø (September, 2026).
- 2026-06 Paper accepted to IEEE TPAMI (June, 2026). read earlier version here
- 2026-06 Two papers accepted at MICCAI 2026 (June, 2026). read earlier version here
- 2026-06 Invited talk at the annual meeting of the University Library at UiT (June, 2026).
- 2026-04 Invited talk at the MNT seminar at UiT (April, 2026).
- 2026-04 Invited talk at the Arctic Sun Celebration 2026 event "What does AI do to us?" at UiT (April, 2026).
- 2026-03 Served as opponent at PhD defense at NTNU (March, 2026).
- 2026-03 Invited digital talk at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence - ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur, Switzerland (March, 2026).
- 2025-10 Supervised best student paper at National Conference on Image Processing and Machine Learning (October, 2025).
See all news including the archive.
