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.
After four years of operation, an international AI expert panel was appointed to assess Visual Intelligence's progress and results. The evaluation was characterized by its excellent remarks on the centre's scientific quality and innovation output.
Senior Researcher Fredrik Dahl recently gave a talk about Norsk Regnesentral's work on developing AI algorithms for automatic analysis of image quality and cancer detection at Norsk Radiografforbund's mammography symposium in Oslo.
Han høster anerkjennelse for sitt forskningsarbeid innen utvikling av mer effektive KI-modeller (Norwegian news article in Nordlys).
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Congratulations to associate professor Ali Ramezani-Kebrya for receiving a prestigious FRIPRO grant from the Research Council of Norway!
KI har en tendens til å behandle menn og kvinner ulikt. Ekspert mener teknologien reproduserer gamle fordommer (Norwegian news story in NRK.no)
To UiT-forskere ser store etiske og juridiske problemer ved bruk av kunstig intelligens i kommunal saksbehandling (Norwegian news story in Nordlys.no).
The fifth Visual Intelligence annual report, showcasing the centre's activities, results, staff, funding and publications for 2024, is now available on our web pages.
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I juni møtes det norske KI-miljøet i Tromsø for å presentere ny forskning og diskutere nye retninger innen feltet. KI-forskere inviteres til å delta og vise fram forskningen sin under konferansen.
Visual Intelligence and the Digital Innovation Lab invited industry professionals to present ideas for master's projects to computer science and machine learning students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Kunstig intelligens (KI) endrer måten vi løser komplekse problemer på. Ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet leder professor Robert Jenssen Visual Intelligence, et senter for forskningsdrevet innovasjon som utvikler neste generasjons KI-metoder.
Visual Intelligence researchers had the great pleasure of talking to high school students about the AI study programme at UiT The Arctic University of Norway during the UiT Open Day.
Director Robert Jenssen represented Visual Intelligence at the CuttingEdgeAI seminar "KI anno 2023: I offentlighetens interesse?" at the University of Bergen on March 7th.
Det hender at kunstig intelligens behandler menn og kvinner ulikt. Hvordan skjer dette? KI-forsker Elisabeth Wetzer forklarer hva som ligger bak skjevhetene i teknologien (Popular science story in forskning.no and sciencenorway.no)
Congratulations to Visual Intelligence board member Viktoria Gulliksen Stray for being featured in Abelia and ODA-Nettverk's list of Top 50 Influential Tech Women in Norway 2025!
Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, Sigrun Aasland (Ap) got to hear about Visual Intelligence's work toward developing the next generation of deep learning methodology at a visit to UiT in Tromsø
Hva er lov og hva er ikke lov? Det er blant spørsmålene studentene stiller seg. (NRK.no story featuring director Robert Jenssen)
We had the pleasure of talking to students about the exciting career opportunities at Visual Intelligence and UiT The Arctic University of Norway during TEKdagen 2025
Last week, we welcomed students from Breivang upper secondary school to a full-day practical session on AI and programming at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
We happily welcome Solveig Thrun, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in January 2025.
Visual Intelligence and UiT researchers organized a special curricular course on collaborative coding and reproducible research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.