Robert Jenssen has joined the NR as Professor II at SAMBA, the department of Statistical Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis,

Robert Jenssen directs the Machine Learning @ UiT Lab at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – The Arctic University of Norway. His group, partially funded by the Norwegian Research Council over FRIPRO and IKTPLUSS, has made considerable contributions to machine learning.

Machine Learning @ UiT has currently joined forces with the SAMBA department at the Norwegian Computing Center for together building expertise in deep learning research and in machine learning for gaining new insight from data, Deep Learning for Applications.

Jenssen is also a senior researcher at the Norwegian Center on Integrated Care and Telemedicine at the University Hospital of North Norway. He was a guest professor at the Technical University of Denmark, in the Cognitive Systems Section headed by Lars Kai Hansen in 2012/2013, a guest researcher at the Technical University of Berlin, in Klaus-Robert Müller’s Machine Learning Group in 2008/2009, and a guest researcher at the University of Florida, in Jose Principe’s Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory in 2002/2003 and March/April 2004.

Jenssen received Honorable Mention for the 2003 Pattern Recognition Journal Best Paper Award, the 2005 IEEE ICASSP Outstanding Student Paper Award, and the 2007 UiT Young Investigator Award. His paper "Kernel Entropy Component Analysis" was the Featured Paper of the May 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and his paper "Kernel Entropy Component Analysis for Remote Sensing Image Clustering” (with Gomez-Chova and Camps-Valls) was the Editor's Choice Paper of the March 2012 issue of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and went on to win the 2013 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Letters Best Paper Award.

At UiT, Jenssen coordinates the Machine Learning and Statistics education in UiT’s Master Program on Applied Physics and Mathematics, and he is the head of the Electrical Engineering section at the Department of Physics and Technology. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, and serves on the IAPR Governing Board. Jenssen is an Associate Editor of the journal Pattern Recognition.