Jan Zavadil
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Jan Zavadil

Meet Jan, our newest doctoral research fellow

We happily welcome Jan Zavadil, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in September 2024.

Meet Jan, our newest doctoral research fellow

We happily welcome Jan Zavadil, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in September 2024.

By Petter Bjørklund, Communication Advisor at SFI Visual Intelligence

Zavadil is from Semice, Czech Republic and has a master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Methods from Czech Technical University in Prague.

His PhD project aims to explore and enhance current deep learning approaches for processing heterogeneous input data. The focus will be on developing methods to merge valuable information from different data modalities, with the objective of harnessing complementary insights and identifying complex patterns that individual data sources cannot capture.

- These innovative approaches will mainly be applied to improve deep learning models for environmental monitoring of the seabed, Zavadil explains.

Zavadil's project will be supervised by professor Fred Godtliebsen (UiT), researcher Steffen Aagaard Sørensen (UiT), and postdoctoral researcher Eirik Myrvoll-Nilsen (UiT).

- I am looking forward to cooperate with a very diverse group of researchers and broaden my insight into modern deep learning methods, says Zavadil.

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