The delegation lasted from April 23rd to 27th and aimed to develop and strengthen existing and future collaborations between UiT and Indian universities and research institutions.
We were happy to take part in UiT The Arctic University of Norway's delegation to India. The delegation lasted from April 23rd to 27th and aimed to develop and strengthen existing and future collaborations between UiT and Indian universities and research institutions.
Associate professor Elisabeth Wetzer participated on Visual Intelligence's behalf and got to visit the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IIT Delhi) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The delegation and IIT Delhi faculty discussed research overlaps between the institutions, resulting in the identification of multiple common and intersecting research interests.
Wetzer got an extensive tour at multiple labs by Dr. Atanendu Sekhar Mandal, which involved topics such as telecommunication, robotics, image processing, and AI.
Similarly to the IIT Delhi meeting, Wetzer and other UiT delegates visited AIIMS to discuss common research grounds and shared ideas on what UiT projects could benefit AIIMS and vice versa. AIIMS then gave the UiT delegation a tour to the Centre for Dental Education to learn more about a large digital pathology database and oral cancer detection system AIIMS are working on.
The delegation was then invited to the Royal Norwegian Embassy in India to present research projects through presentations and scientific panel discussions between UiT researchers. Wetzer gave participants an overview of research areas within UiT Machine Learning (ML) group, which was followed by a signing session of six Memorandums of Understanding between UiT and Indian universities later that evening.
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On the 25th, the delegation split up to visit different collaborators across India. Wetzer headed to Kolkata and was welcomed by professors Ashis Kumar Dhara (NIT Durgapur) and Sudipta Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur). She met several students at Mukhopadhyay's lab at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at NIT Durgapur and gave a presentation about UiT, life in Tromsø, the ML group, VI and herself.
Wetzer visited the Department of Biotechnology to give a presentation at the Bioprocess and Bioproduct Development Laboratory on April 26th. The laboratory is involved in a large ongoing collaboration with UiT on Strategic Planning for Water Resources, Development and Implementation of Novel Biotechnical Treatment Solutions and Good Practices (SPRING). Wetzer, Mukhopadhyay, Sen and professor Ashis Kumar Dhara met with professor Debasish Chakravarty, the associate dean for alumni affairs and international relations, to discuss the possibility of an MoU and a student exchange agreement with UiT which is currently in the making.
The collaboration between UiT and Indian partners now involve fields such as energi technology, mathematics, machine learning, sustainable development and environment, aquaculture, and research on the Arctic and climate change. Visual Intelligence look forward to future collaborations with the Indian academic community.
Registration for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2026 is officially open. Early bird fees are available before December 1st 2025.
Det skal eksperter på kunstig intelligens, cybersikkerhet og juss fra UiT Norges arktiske universitet diskutere på Verdensteatret Kino den 17. september. Arrangementet er gratis og åpen for alle (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
The presentations from the Visual Intelligence Workshop on Foundation Models are now available on the Visual Intelligence YouTube channel.
Congratulations to Nikita Shvetsov for successfully defending his PhD thesis and achieving the PhD degree in Science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 27th 2025.
Det sa digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung (Ap) da hun besøkte UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø for å lære mer om utdanning og toppforskning på kunstig intelligens ved universitetet (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
A new study shows how deep learning can achieve human-level performance in estimating uncertainty when classifying foraminifera (News story at EurekAlert.org)
Congratulations to Iver Martinsen and Durgesh Kumar Singh, who successfully defended their PhD theses at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 20th and 21st respectively.
Visual Intelligence brought together academia, industry, the institute sector, the Research Council of Norway, and Norwegian politics to discuss why and how Norwegian academia and industry should collaborate more closely to develop innovative artificial intelligence.
João Campagnolo is a PhD Candidate in the Neuroscience Department of the University of Copenhagen (KU). He visited SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from April to May 2025.
Students from EUGLOH partner institutions can now apply for an exclusive mobility scholarship worth 2 900 EUR for the NLDL 2026 Winter School. Application deadline October 3rd 2025
Visual Intelligence will be well represented at MICCAI 2025—one of the leading AI conferences on medical imaging and computer assisted intervention—with three recently accepted research papers.
More than 50 attendees from the Norwegian AI research community gathered in Tromsø, Norway for two days of insightful presentations, interactive technical sessions, and scientific and social interactions.
Last week, we wished Aasland—accompanied by Political Advisor Munir Jaber and Senior Adviser Finn-Hugo Markussen—welcome to the Norwegian Computing Center (NR). One of the visit's goals was to showcase ongoing Visual Intelligence projects at NR.
Alba Ordoñez and Anders U. Waldeland presented ongoing work on seismic foundation models and an interactive seismic interpretation engine at EAGE Annual 2025 in Toulouse, France.
Østmo was invited to Abels tårn—one of the largest popular science radio shows in Norway—to answer listener-submitted questions related to artificial Intelligence (AI). The live show took place at Blårock Cafe in Tromsø, Norway on June 12th.
VI industry partner Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) received an Industrial PhD grant from the Research Council of Norway. The project will be closely connected to Visual Intelligence's "Earth observation" innovation area.
Visual Intelligence Researchers Amund Vedal and Arnt Børre Salberg recently presented ongoing Visual Intelligence research at a plankton-themed workshop organized by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
We happily welcome Dennis Adamek, who recently started as a Doctoral Research Fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in April 2025.
Congratulations to Professor Lars Ailo for receiving the NORA Award for Diversity in AI at the NORA Annual Conference in Halden, Norway.
Teresa Dorszewski is a PhD Candidate at the Section for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Denmark. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from January to April 2025.