NORA Annual Conference 2022 Program & Tracks

Conference Day 1 - June 9th
TimeActivity
08:00-09:00Registration & Coffee 
09:00-09:15Welcome by Klas Pettersen
09:15-10:15

Keynote by Ulrich Paquet

"AlphaZero: A Retrospective and Future Story"

10:15-10:30Coffee Break 
10:30-11:30Track 1 - Medical Applications & Image Processing
11:30-12:30Lunch
12:30-13:30Track 2 - Time Series & Planning
13:30-13:45Coffee Break
13:45-14:45

"On concepts in deep neural networks"

Moderated by Klas Pettersen, CEO, NORA

- Ulrich Paquet, Research Scientist, DeepMind

- Morten Goodwin, Professor and Director of CAIR, UiA

- Inga Strumke, Researcher, NTNU, Norwegian Open AI Lab

14:45-15:45Poster Session
15:45-16:45

Keynote by Evandro Fei Fang

"The NAD+-mitophagy axis in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease and AI-based drug development"

16:45-17:00NORA & Upcoming Projects 
17:00End of Conference
19:00Conference Dinner

Dinner at Flor and Fjære 

18:45Meet at Bekhuskaien 
19:00Departure by boat to Flor and Fjære
19:20Arrival at Flor and Fjære. Garden tour begins
20:00Dinner and NORA Annual Awards Ceremony 
23:15 Departure from Flor and Fjære

 

Conference Day 2 - June 10th
TimeActivity
08:00-09:00Morning session: NORA.EU event
08:30-09:00Registration & Coffee 
09:00-10:00

Keynote by Uli Sattler

"Background Knowledge, graphs, and ontologies: potential and challenges for using knowledge in machine learning"

10:00-10:15Coffee Break 
10:15-11:15Track 3 - Cyber Security and Anomaly Detection
11:15-12:15Lunch
12:15-13:15Track 4 - Miscellaneous
13:15-13:30Coffee Break
13:30-14:30

"Ethics and (cyber) security in AI" 

Moderated by Tom Ryen, Professor, UiS

- Ana Ozaki, Associate Professor, UiB

- Per-Arne Andersen, Assistant Professor, UiA

- Ferhat Ozgur Catak, Associate Professor, UiS

- Serge Belongie, Professor at DIKU and Director of the Pioneer Centre for AI

14:30-15:00Conference Closing 

Tracks

Track 1 - Medical Applications & Image Processing
TimeTitlePresenter
10:30-10:45Detection of Histopathological Artifacts in Whole Slide ImagesNeel Kanwal, PhD Fellow, UiS
10:45-11:00Towards Automatic Staging of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder CancerSaul Fuster, PhD Fellow, UiS
11:00-11:15Zero-Shot Learning – A Survey on Models and Applications

Fadi Al Machot, 

Associate Professor, NMBU

11:15-11:30Improving accuracy of machine learning models for diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome through integration of domain knowledge in data preparation phase

Noman Haleem, 

Haukeland University Hospital

Track Chair: Morten Goodwin, Professor, UiA

 

Track 2 - Time Series & Planning
TimeTitlePresenter
12:30-12:45Farm-Scale Crop Yield Prediction from Multi-Temporal Data using Deep Hybrid Neural NetworksMorten Goodwin, Professor, UiA
12:45-13:00Soccer Athlete Performance Prediction using Time Series AnalysisNourhan Ragab, OsloMet
13:00-13:15Helping electricity producers with short term planningSigne Riemer-Sørensen, Research Scientist,, SINTEF
13:15-13:30NORA.startup Presentation: AIVEO - Empowering the elderly to enjoy their livesJeanette Tharaldsen

Track Chair: Mina Farmanbar, Associate Professor, UiS

Track 3 - Cyber Security and Anomaly Detection
TimeTitlePresenter
10:15-10:30Enhancing the Dependability of Cyber-physical Systems with AI-enabled Digital TwinQinghua Xu, PhD Fellow, Simula
10:30-10:45Adversarial Attacks Mitigations for AI-based beamforming and channel estimation for the next-generation wireless communication systemsFerhat Ozgur Catak, Associate Professor, UiS
10:45-11:00AI-based malware and attack detection for IoT securityGuru Bhandari, Software Engineer, Kristiania University College
11:00-11:15NORA.startup Presentation: NablaFlowLuca Oggiano, CEO & Co-founder

Track Chair: Anne Håkansson, Professor, UiT 

Track 4 - Miscellaneous
TimeTitlePresenter
12:15-12:30Classification of deforestation alertsTord Kriznik Sørensen, Scientific Software Engineer, Science & Technology
12:30-12:45Mapping galactic gas temperaturesMagnus Sikora Ingstad, SINTEF
12:45-13:00Comparing explanations from DNN-generated wine score predictions with expert opinions

Patrik Hammersborg, Master Student NTNU

Andreas von Brandis, Master Student, NTNU

13:00-13:15NORA.startup presentation: Automated Fact-Checking at FactiverseMaximillian Reimer, Data Scientist

Track Chair: Ana Ozaki, Associate Professor, UiB


Vote for the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation! 

Only PhDs and young researchers can receive the award. We will announce the winners on Friday at 14:30. We of course encourage you all to pay close attention during the tracks, and take the opportunity to study the posters and engage with the authors.

Once you are ready, please vote by using the link available here. You can nominate one candidate for best poster and one candidate for best oral presentation.

We will close the voting at 14:00 on Friday the 10th, so please take the opportunity to award scholarly effort!

 

Vote now! 

Published May 3, 2022 8:04 AM - Last modified Sep. 23, 2025 1:20 PM