Deep Dive
Director & Professor
UiT The Arctic University of Norway / Visual Intelligence
On stage
Wed 28 Oct
Visual Intelligence from Space and for Arctic AI
About
Robert Jenssen is a professor in the Department of Physics and Technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He is the director of Visual Intelligence, a centre for research-based innovation in AI, and the director of [AI]² - The Arctic Institute for AI, UiT’s new strategic initiative. He is also professor (part time) at the University of Copenhagen in the Pioneer Centre for AI. He has had long-term research stays at the University of Florida, Technical University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Denmark. His research interests include Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He has high focus on research-based innovation in Health, Earth Sciences and Environmental Monitoring and he collaborates extensively with industry. He has received several international best paper awards, he is a Fellow of the International Association on Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and he received UiT’s Research and Development Award, 2026. He has several international leadership roles including being the General Chair of the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference and serving on Scientific Advisory Boards for the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, DIREC Digital Research Centre Denmark, and SequoIA Excellence Cluster in AI, France.