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.
Congratulations to our colleague Sarina Thomas, who has been recognized as one of Norway's Top 50 Women in Tech!
Elisabeth Wetzer forsker på hvordan maskiner kan lære å analysere medisinske bilder – og samtidig forstå hva legene faktisk ser etter (Norwegian news article on dagsavisen.no)
Visual Intelligence researchers organized a preparatory course for UiT AI students who are attending this year's Norwegian AI Championship.
We happily welcome Veronica Lachi and Qing Liu as new Associate Professors at SFI Visual Intelligence.
Artur Radzivil is a PhD Research Fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. He visited Visual Intelligence in Oslo from September to November 2025.
Congratulations to Marius Aasan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on February 10th.
We had the pleasure of talking to UiT students about the career opportunities at SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT at TEKdagen 2026.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen met with Sigrun Aasland, Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, alongside UiT and Aker Nscale representatives to give an update on Aker Nscale's AI Giga Factory in Narvik, Norway.
Zheming Xu is a PhD Research Fellow at Beijing Jiaotong University. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from September 2025 to January 2026.
Få kvinner søker seg til fag innenfor kunstig intelligens. Det kan skape blindsoner, mener ekspert (Norwegian news story in NRK.no).
Visual Intelligence was represented by Centre Director Robert Jenssen, Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm, and VI Alumna Sara Björk at the Arctic Frontiers side session "How can AI and satellite collaboration strengthen Arctic resilience?".
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.
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.