Robert Jenssen

Robert Jenssen is a Professor in the Machine Learning Research Group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and serves as the Director of Visual Intelligence, an 8-year Research Council of Norway-funded SFI center. His research focuses on solving societal challenges in healthcare, marine mapping, energy, and Earth observation through collaborations with industry and public stakeholders.

• Director, Visual Intelligence (SFI) Center
• Professor, UiT
• Adjunct Professor, Pioneer Centre for AI (University of Copenhagen) and Norwegian Computing Center

His methodological expertise spans neural networks, information-theoretic learning, self-learning, and explainable AI (XAI). Recent work emphasizes multimodal learning, uncertainty estimation, and medical image analysis.

Scientific awards include:

• Best Paper, Pattern Recognition Letters (2024)
• Dissertation Award, Norwegian AI Society (2023)
• Best Paper, Color and Visual Computing Symposium (2022)
• IEEE GRS Society Letters Prize (2013)
• Prize for Young Researchers, University of Tromsø (2007)

He contributes to international leadership as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, France's SequoIA AI Excellence Cluster, and Denmark's DIREC center.