Trial Lecture and PhD Dissertation in Computer Science 16.09.2026 - Master of Science Ayush Somani

Trial Lecture
Master of Science Ayush Somani holds a trial lecture on an assigned topic for the Ph.D. degree in science, Wednesday September 16th, 2026 at 10:15.

Title: "Document Page Layout Segmentation"

Dissertation - Ph.D. Degree
Master of Science Ayush Somani will publicly defend his Ph.D. thesis on Wednesday September 16th, 2026 at 12:15.

Title: "Interpretability as a Reliability Pipeline: From Diagnostic Explanations to Grounded Supervision in Deep Learning"

The thesis is available here: https://nva.sikt.no/registration/01a0430a6a6a-1c02ffa7-7f49-4481-ba88-3f3ac14e25ba

Audience
Both the trial lecture and dissertation take place in Store Auditorium B302 in the Science building. The trial lecture and defense will also be streamed.

Trial lecture: https://uit.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=a66eb93c-36a1-4515-8640-b4b900ad9849
Dissertation: https://uit.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=8825dda0-3d79-4514-9d3f-b4b900ad9982

The following have been appointed as the assessment committee for the defense:

1st Opponent: Professor Elisa H. Barney Smith, Department of Computer Science, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
2nd Opponent: Professor (Artificial Intelligence) Swati Aggarwal, Faculty of Logistics, Molde University College, Norway
Internal member and leader of the committee: Dr. Edvard Pedersen, Department of Computer Science, UiT, Norway

Supervisors for Ayush Somani have been:

Professor Dilip K. Prasad, Department of Computer Science, UiT (Main Supervisor)
Professor Alexander Horsch, Department of Computer Science, UiT
Associate professor Chai Hiok Quek, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Assistant Professor Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi

Kortnytt fra Institutt for informatikk

Rishaug, Tina tina.rishaug@uit.no Rådgiver/forsker