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

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

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.

News
* 27th-29th August: At MLSP 2007 in Greece. * Paper published in IEEE TSP ("The Laplacian Classifier"). * 19th-21st June: Visiting Klaus-Robert Muller in Berlin. * 7th-9th May: Jose Principe visiting Tromso. * 25th April: Klaus-Robert Muller visiting Tromso.