Research Interests
Machine learning and pattern recognition in general. In particular, information theoretic learning, kernel methods, spectral clustering, independent component analysis for texture segmentation, computational earth observation.

Projects/Lab
IT-IDA project, CEO-ML Lab

Honors
* Honorable Mention for the 2003 Pattern Recognition Journal Best Paper Award
* The ICASSP 2005 Outstanding Student Paper Award
* The 2007 University of Tromso Young Investigator Award

Invited Talks
* Keynote talk at the NOBIM 2008 conference [pdf]
* Talk at the Technical University of Berlin [pdf]
* Talk at the University of Florida [pdf]

"Community Service"
* On the IEEE Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (2007-)
* Program Committee Member: IEEE MLSP 2005-2008, Tromso Conference on Imaging in Neuroscience 2007, NORSIG 2008, VC 2008, ICML 2008, SCIA 2009
* Reviewer: IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNN, IEEE TSP, IEEE TBME, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Neurocomputing, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Image and Vision Computing, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Computers and Geoscience, ICASSP, MLSP, ICML, IJCNN, IGARSS

News
* December 2008: Paper published in Neurocomputing. * 8th-11th December 2008: At NIPS in Vancouver. * September 2008 - June 2009: At TU Berlin working with Klaus-Robert Muller. * June 5-6 2008: At NOBIM 2008 in Trondheim, Norway, keynote talk. * Jan-June 2008: M.Sc Ola Storaas employed as research assistant on the IT-IDA project. * December 2007: Ola Storaas completes M.Sc. thesis "Information Theoretic Learning for Pattern Classification." * 27th-29th August 2007: At MLSP in Greece. * Paper published in IEEE TSP. * 19th-21st June 2007: Visiting Klaus-Robert Muller in Berlin. * 7th-9th May 2007: Jose Principe visiting Tromso. * 25th April 2007: Klaus-Robert Muller visiting Tromso.