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Publications

Published journal articles

  1. Gustav Godtliebsen, Kenneth Bowitz Larsen, Zambarlal Bhujabal, Ida S Opstad, Mireia Nager, Abhinanda R Punnakkal, Trine B Kalstad, Randi Olsen, Trine Lund, Dilip K Prasad, Krishna Agarwal, Truls Myrmel, Åsa Birna Birgisdottir. "High-resolution visualization and assessment of basal and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts." Autophagy 19, no. 10 (2023): 2769-2788. [made to cover page]
  2. Biswajoy Ghosh and Krishna Agarwal. "Viewing life without labels under optical microscopes." Communications Biology 6, no. 1 (2023): 559. [most cited in 2025]
  3. Ayush Somani, Arif Ahmed Sekh, Ida S. Opstad, Åsa Birna Birgisdottir, Truls Myrmel, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Alexander Horsch, Krishna Agarwal, and Dilip K. Prasad. "Virtual labeling of mitochondria in living cells using correlative imaging and physics-guided deep learning." Biomedical Optics Express 13, no. 10 (2022): 5495-5516.
  4. Abhinanda Ranjit Punnakkal, Gustav Godtliebsen, Ayush Somani, Sebastian Andres Acuna Maldonado, Åsa Birna Birgisdottir, Dilip K. Prasad, Alexander Horsch, and Krishna Agarwal. "Analyzing Mitochondrial Morphology Through Simulation Supervised Learning." JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) 193 (2023): e64880.
  5. Ida S. Opstad, Gustav Godtliebsen, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Truls Myrmel, Krishna Agarwal, and Åsa Birna Birgisdottir. "Mitochondrial dynamics and quantification of mitochondria‐derived vesicles in cardiomyoblasts using structured illumination microscopy." Journal of Biophotonics 15, no. 2 (2022): e202100305.
  6. Yingying Qin, Ankit Butola, and Krishna Agarwal. "3D refractive index reconstruction from phaseless coherent optical microscopy data using multiple scattering-based inverse solvers - a study." Inverse Problems 40 (2023): 015003.
  7. Florian Ströhl, Daniel Henry Hansen, Mireia Nager and Åsa Birna Birgisdottir. "Multifocus microscopy with optical sectioning and high axial resolution." Optica 9 (2022): 1210-1218.
  8. Christos Alexandropoulos, Martí Duocastella. "Video-rate quantitative phase imaging with dynamic acousto-optic defocusing." Optics and Lasers in Engineering 169 (2023): 107692.
  9. Andrea Marchese, Pietro Ricci, Peter Saggau, Martí Duocastella. "Scan-less microscopy based on acousto-optic encoded illumination." Nanophotonics 13 (2024): 63-73.
  10. I. S. Opstad, A. B. Birgisdottir and K. Agarwal. "Fluorescence microscopy and correlative brightfield videos of mitochondria and vesicles in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts." Scientific Data 11, Article number: 125 (2024).
  11. Qasim, Iqra, Alexander Horsch, and Dilip Prasad. "Dense video captioning: A survey of techniques, datasets and evaluation protocols." ACM Computing Surveys 57, no. 6 (2025): 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3712059
  12. Singh, Ayush, Yash Bhambhu, Himanshu Buckchash, Deepak K. Gupta, and Dilip K. Prasad. "Latent Graph Attention for Spatial Context in Light-Weight Networks: Multi-Domain Applications in Visual Perception Tasks." Applied Sciences 14, no. 22 (2024): 10677. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210677
  13. Biswas, Momojit, Himanshu Buckchash, and Dilip K. Prasad. "pNNCLR: Stochastic pseudo neighborhoods for contrastive learning based unsupervised representation learning problems." Neurocomputing 593 (2024): 127810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.127810
  14. Punnakkal, Abhinanda R., Suyog S. Jadhav, Aaron V. Celeste, Alexander Horsch, Krishna Agarwal, and Dilip K. Prasad. "3D Mitochondria Shape Library for Optical Microscopy (3DMSL): A multimodal dataset for deep learning based mitochondrial analysis." Data in Brief (2026): 112507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.112507
  15. Alexandropoulos, Christos, Laura Rodríguez-Suñé, and Martí Duocastella. "Snapshot Quantitative Phase Imaging with Acousto-Optic Chromatic Aberration Control." Sensors 25, no. 14 (2025): 4503.
  16. Ghosh, Biswajoy, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Sebastian Acuña, Pooja Lahiri, Mousumi Pal, Pabitra Mitra, and Krishna Agarwal. "Molecular histopathology of matrix proteins through autofluorescence super-resolution microscopy." Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (2024): 10524.
  17. Butola, Ankit, Biswajoy Ghosh, Jaena Park, Minsung Kwon, Alejandro De la Cadena, Sudipta S. Mukherjee, Rohit Bhargava, Stephen A. Boppart, and Krishna Agarwal. "Label-free correlative morpho-chemical tomography of 3D kidney mesangial cells." Journal of Biomedical Optics 31, no. 3 (2026): 036501-036501. [made to cover page]
  18. Bampton, Alexander, Ariana Gatt, Jack Humphrey, Sara Cappelli, Dipanjan Bhattacharya, Sandrine Foti, Anna-Leigh Brown et al. "HnRNP K mislocalisation is a novel protein pathology of frontotemporal lobar degeneration and ageing and leads to cryptic splicing." Acta Neuropathologica 142, no. 4 (2021): 609-627.
  19. Nàger, Mireia, Kenneth B. Larsen, Zambarlal Bhujabal, Trine B. Kalstad, Judith Rössinger, Truls Myrmel, Florian Weinberger, and Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Mitophagy is induced in human engineered heart tissue after simulated ischemia and reperfusion." Journal of Cell Science 138, no. 9 (2025): jcs263408.
  20. Mireia Nàger, Mauro Calvoli, Kenneth B. Larsen and Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "The multifaceted role of autophagy and mitophagy in cardiovascular health and disease." Autophagy Reports 4, no. 1 (2025): 2572511. doi: 10.1080/27694127.2025.2572511
  21. Florian Ströhl, Daniel Henry Hansen, Mireia Nager Grifo, and Åsa Birna Birgisdottir. "Multifocus microscopy with optical sectioning and high axial resolution." Optica 9 (2022): 1210-1218. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.468583
  22. Muhammed Sönmez, Tim Stüdemann, Christoph Manthey, Anita Covic, Nancy Shehata, Barbora Schwarzova, Judith Rössinger, Rajiven Srikantharajah, Aya Shibamiya, Edzard Schwedhelm, Thomas Eschenhagen, Torsten Christ, Florian Weinberger. "Modulation of cardiomyocyte contractility and action potentials with chemogenetic chloride currents." Journal of Physiology 603, no. 6 (2025): 1399-1415. doi: 10.1113/JP286428
  23. Tim Stüdemann, Barbora Schwarzová, Till Schneidewind, Birgit Geertz, Constantin von Bibra, Marie Nehring, Judith Rössinger, J Simon Wiegert, Thomas Eschenhagen, Florian Weinberger. "Impulse initiation in engrafted pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes can stimulate the recipient heart." Stem Cell Reports 19, no. 8 (2024): 1053-1060. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2024.06.012
  24. Farhad Niknam, Laura Rodríguez-Suñé, Krishna Agarwal, Martí Duocastella. "High-speed fluctuation microscopy with acousto-optic illumination." Journal of Physics: Photonics 8 (2026): 025004. doi: 10.1088/2515-7647/ae54eb
  25. Skorsetz M, König A, Rieger G, König K. "Multiphoton imaging with frequency encoded illumination using dual acousto-optic deflectors." IEEE Photonics Journal 18 (2026): 3700306.
  26. Yingying Qin, Ankit Butola, Yu Zhong, and Krishna Agarwal. "Scattering-enhanced intensity based tomography." IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, Early access. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCI.2026.3707064
  27. Chakraborty, A., Joardar, S., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2025). "Graph-based hostile content detection in Hindi language." Discover Computing 28, Article 264. DOI: 10.1007/s10791-025-09790-0
  28. Das, B., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2026). "IReCAPTCHA: A robust image-reasoning CAPTCHA system." Cybersecurity 9, Article 54. DOI: 10.1186/s42400-025-00484-0
  29. Kumar, A., Mondal, S., Khatua, D., Guha, D., Mukherjee, B., Lahiri, A., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2025). "AI-driven analysis by identifying risk factors of VL relapse in HIV co-infected patients." Scientific Reports 15, Article 21067. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-07406-7
  30. Mondal, S., Khatua, D., Mandal, S., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2025). "BMWP: The first Bengali math word problems dataset for operation prediction and solving." Discover Artificial Intelligence 5, Article 25. DOI: 10.1007/s44163-025-00243-7
  31. Pal, R., Kar, S., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2025). "Multilingual visual question answering for visually impaired people." Discover Artificial Intelligence 5, Article 226. DOI: 10.1007/s44163-025-00482-8
  32. Pal, R., Kar, S., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2026). "Improving visual question answering for visually impaired people leveraging pre-trained models." Discover Applied Sciences 8, Article 20. DOI: 10.1007/s42452-025-07996-x
  33. Pal, R., Kar, S., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2026). "VisionAidQA: Advancing visual question answering for the visually impaired." ACM Computing Surveys 58, no. 9, Article 219. DOI: 10.1145/3788861
  34. Somani, A., Horsch, A., Bopardikar, A., & Prasad, D. K. (2024). "Propagating transparency: A deep dive into the interpretability of neural networks." Nordic Machine Intelligence 4, no. 2 (2024): 1-23. DOI: 10.5617/nmi.10755

Archives and journal article preprints

  1. Rohit Agarwal, Aman Sinha, Dilip K. Prasad, Marianne Clausel, Alexander Horsch, Mathieu Constant, and Xavier Coubez. "Modelling Irregularly Sampled Time Series Without Imputation." arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08698 (2023).
  2. Agarwal, R., Naidu, K. P., Horsch, A., Agarwal, K., & Prasad, D. K. (2024). "packetLSTM: Dynamic LSTM framework for streaming data with varying feature space." arXiv. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.17394
  3. Abhinanda R. Punnakkal, Suyog S. Jadhav, Alexander Horsch, Krishna Agarwal, and Dilip K. Prasad. "MiShape: 3D Shape Modelling of Mitochondria in Microscopy." arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01546 (2023).
  4. Ida S. Opstad, Kenneth Bowitz Larsen, Åsa Birna Birgisdottir, and Krishna Agarwal. "LysoTracker Deep Red exhibits photoconversion in multi-color structured illumination microscopy." bioRxiv (2023): 2023-10.
  5. Shehata N, Srikantharajah R, Baier E, Manthey C, Stüdemann T, Nehring M, Covic A, Müller C, Siebels B, Nissen P, Witten A, Zafra Castellano M, Rodriguez Y, Zamacona Gomez L, Janssen I, Rodriguez J, Garza Enriquez A, Garitagoitia Romero MA, Di Mattia R, Dendorfer A, Moretti A, Poch CM, Eschenhagen T, Weinberger F. "Contractility governs cardiomyocyte cell cycle activity." bioRxiv, 2025.
  6. Ghosh, B., Agarwal, K., Habib, A., Agarwal, K., Melandsø, F. (2024). "Label-free acoustic and optical microscopy of live tumor spheroids in hydrogel for high-throughput 3D in-vitro drug screening." bioRxiv, 2024-08.
  7. Ghosh, B., Niknam, F., Kumar, N., Fenton, K. A., and Agarwal, K. (2023). "Predicting Early Diabetic Kidney Disease Using a 3D Mesangial Model and Bayesian Mechano-Chemical Stratification." bioRxiv, 2025.
  8. Shehata N, Srikantharajah R, Baier E, Manthey C, et al. "Contractility governs cardiomyocyte cell cycle activity." bioRxiv, 2025.

Submitted journal articles

  1. I. S. Opstad, S. Acuna, F. Strohl, S. Strohl, A. B. Birgisdottir and K. Agarwal. "Blind reconstruction of three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy data for challenging conditions." Under review at NPJ Imaging. Minor revisions suggested.
  2. Ghosh, B., Agarwal, K. (2024). "Randomly oriented microgrooved hydrogel guides cellular motility, modulates speed, and governs directionality of cellular spread." bioRxiv, 2024-09. (Under review in Nature Communications.)
  3. Farhad Niknam, Deanna Wolfson, Biswajoy Ghosh and Krishna Agarwal. "Fast and High-Fidelity Deconvolution Microscopy with Filtered Back Projection." Under review in Nature Communications.
  4. Yingying Qin, Yu Zhong and Krishna Agarwal. "Radiative transfer equation based modeling for mesoscopic microscopy." Submitted to Optics Express.
  5. F. Niknam and K. Agarwal. "Regionwise and sample-specific point spread function estimation." Submitted to Communications Biology (Light Microscopy special issue).
  6. Yingying Qin, Yu Zhong and Krishna Agarwal. "Kernel-Based Analysis of Illumination Strategies in Intensity-Only Inverse Scattering Microscopy." Submitted to Optics Letters.
  7. S. Surdo and M. Duocastella. "Million-frame-per-second single-pixel imaging using frequency-multiplexed LED arrays." Submitted.
  8. Agarwal, R., Das, A., Horsch, A., Agarwal, K., & Prasad, D. K. "Online learning under haphazard input conditions: A comprehensive review and analysis." Under review in ACM Computing Surveys.
  9. Agarwal, R., Das, A., Malakar, S., Horsch, A., & Prasad, D. K. "A Lightweight Model-Agnostic Data Space Transformation Framework for Online Learning under Haphazard Inputs." Under review in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
  10. Agarwal, R., Das, A., & Prasad, D. K. "haphazard: A unified library and benchmark for online learning under varying feature availability." Under review in NeurIPS.

Journal articles under preparation

  1. Suyog Jadhav, Dilip Prasad and Krishna Agarwal. "Mito-SAM: A Two-Stage Approach for Instance Segmentation of Mitochondria in Fluorescence Microscopy Images." Being prepared for Nature Machine Intelligence.
  2. Judith Rössinger, Tim Stüdemann, Mireia Nager, Kenneth Bowitz Larsen, Truls Myrmel, Thomas Eschenhagen, Florian Weinberger and Åsa Birna Birgisdottir. "Cardiac contractility impacts on cardiomyocyte morphology and lysosomal degradation of mitochondria." Under preparation.
  3. Kenneth B. Larsen, Mauro Calvoli, Mireia Nager, Trine B. Kalstad and Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Intercellular transfer of mitochondria alters metabolism and proliferation in cardiac cells." Under preparation.
  4. Dipanjan Bhattacharya, Dylan Lamparte, Krishna Agarwal, Sandrine Willaime-Morawek, Sumeet Mahajan. "Myelin structures in mouse brain investigated through label-free super-resolution chemical imaging." Planned submission to Nature Communications.
  5. Belle Creith, Simon Lane, Jonathan West, Nancy Shehata, Florian Weinberger, Sumeet Mahajan, Dipanjan Bhattacharya. "Development of a Fluidic Chamber for Live Imaging of Engineered Heart Tissue." Under preparation.
  6. Belle Creith, Nancy Shehata, Simon Lane, Alexander Courtier, Jacob Kleboe, Florian Weinberger, Sumeet Mahajan, Dipanjan Bhattacharya. "Exploring Cardiac Maturation in Engineered Heart Tissue: Insights from Label-Free Microscopy." Under preparation.
  7. Alexander F. Courtier, Belle Creith, James Read, Lorenzo Venieri, Matteo Bregonzio, Sumeet Mahajan, Dipanjan Bhattacharya. "Virtual staining: Inferring fluorescent localization of cellular components from label-free chemical imaging (CARS)." Under preparation.
  8. Biswajoy Ghosh, Belle Creith, Krishna Agarwal and Dipanjan Bhattacharya. "Multi-Modal, Label-Free Examination of EHT Maturation using GLIM and Raman Spectroscopy." Under preparation.
  9. Mauro Calvoli, et al. (several members of the OrganVision team). "Engineered Heart Tissues under Light: What can be imaged, how, and to what end." Under preparation for submission to Communications Biology (Light Microscopy special issue).
  10. Abhinanda R. Punnakkal, Suyog S. Jadhav, Biswajoy Ghosh, Alexander Horsch, Krishna Agarwal, and Dilip K. Prasad. "MiShape: Shape Modelling of Mitochondria in 3D for Microscopy." Being prepared for Nature Communications.
  11. Philipp Kirn, Georgina Peñalosa-Ruiz, Raji Srikantharajah, Chet Loh, Tim Stüdeman, Aya Shibamiya, Maria Köhne, Gert Jan C. Veenstra, Thomas Eschenhagen, Florian Weinberger. "A human engineered heart tissue cryoinjury model recapitulates aspects of in vivo cardiac injury." Under preparation.

Thesis

  1. Sebastian Acuna. "Multiple Signal Classification Algorithm: A computational microscopy tool for fluorescence microscopy." PhD dissertation, UiT Norges arktiske universitet, 2023.
  2. Celeste, Aaron. "Presenting CODS (Cell Organelle Dynamic Simulation)." Master's thesis, UiT Norges arktiske universitet, 2023.
  3. Suyog Jadhav. "Reconstructing 3D Geometries of sub-cellular structures from SMLM clouds." Master's thesis, UiT Norges arktiske universitet, 2023.
  4. Torres-Riera, Eva Maria. "Encoded illumination for high-speed optical microscopy." Master's thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023.
  5. Imsa, Kristiana. "Study of mitochondrial transfer in hiPSC derived cardiomyocytes and engineered heart tissue." Master's thesis in Biomedicine, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, 2023.
  6. Lorenzo Venieri. "Generative Adversarial Networks For Three-Dimensional Multi-Channel Virtual Fluorescent Staining." Master's Thesis, University of Bologna, 2024. https://amslaurea.unibo.it/id/eprint/31624/
  7. Synne Amalie Hansen. "Study of mitochondrial degradation induced by cryoinjury in engineered heart tissue." Master's thesis in Biomedicine, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, 2024.
  8. Nancy Shehata. "Evidence for the inhibition of cardiomyocytes cycle activity by the cardiac contractility." PhD thesis, University of Hamburg.
  9. Christos Alexandropoulos. "Advanced Microscopy for Real-time Imaging of Biological Samples." PhD thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2026.
  10. Rohit Agarwal. "Scalable Online Deep Learning for Streaming Data with Variable Feature Spaces: Architectures, Imparting Scalability and Data Transformation." PhD Thesis, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. https://nva.sikt.no/registration/019a2ae0f768-2e0581b0-c814-45e4-8b79-fba6516a5299
  11. Farhad Niknam. Title to be determined. Planned submission in Nov. 2026. PhD dissertation at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
  12. Abhinanda Ranjit Punnakkal. Title to be determined. Planned submission in Nov. 2026. PhD dissertation at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Books

  1. Agarwal, R., & Prasad, D. K. (2025). Cloud computing for everyone: Understanding principles, architecture, security, data, and green practices. https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Computing-Everyone-Understanding-architecture
  2. Somani, A., Horsch, A., & Prasad, D. K. (2023). Interpretability in deep learning. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20639-9
  3. Pandey, H. M., Trovati, M., Bouchachia, H., Prasad, D., & Agrawal, A. P. (2026). Advances in multimodal large language models for healthcare: Methods and applications. Morgan Kaufmann. [Edited book, published September 2026]

Conferences, meetings and webinars

Invited

  1. Sebastian Acuña and Krishna Agarwal. "MUSICAL – a versatile super-resolution microscopy solution for gentle imaging of physical characteristics of biological samples." 4th International Conference On Optics, Photonics, And Lasers (OPL-2023), Hiroshima, Japan, 4-7 Dec. 2023. (Invited)
  2. K. Agarwal, Z. Liu, M. Roy, D. K. Prasad. "Physics-guided Loss Functions Impact Performance of Deep-learning-based Inverse-scattering-problem Solver." Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Prague, 3-6 July 2023. (Invited)
  3. Marti Duocastella, Ernest Martí-Jerez, Salvatore Surdo. "Laser additive fabrication of tailored micro-optics." SPIE Photonics West (online), invited talk (January 2022). Proceedings Volume PC11989, Laser-based Micro- and Nanoprocessing XVI; PC1198904 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608835
  4. Martí Duocastella. "Acousto-Optic Light Engineering for High-Speed Microscopy." Frontiers in Lasers and Applications, Rochester, USA, invited talk (October 2022).
  5. Martí Duocastella. "Toward faster and deeper optical microscopes by combining ultrasound with light." Spanish and Portuguese Advanced Optical Meeting (SPAOM), invited talk (October 2023).
  6. Martí Duocastella. "Controlling light with sound for enhanced materials processing." SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, invited talk (Jan. 2024).
  7. Martí Duocastella. "Ultrasound-enabled light focusing for enhanced laser materials processing." COLA 2024, Crete, Greece, invited talk (Sep. 2024).
  8. Martí Duocastella. "The quest for the perfect microscope: fast, label-free and deep." Imaging Across Scales – From Molecules to Humans, Southampton, UK, keynote talk (June 2024).
  9. "Faster and deeper laser materials processing with ultrasound." The 9th International Congress on Laser Advanced Materials Processing, LAMP 2025, Ise City, Japan, invited talk (June 2025).
  10. Martí Duocastella. "Encoded light for high-speed optical microscopy." 12th International Weber Symposium, Genoa, Italy, invited talk (June 2025).
  11. Martí Duocastella. "Toward faster microscopy with encoded illumination." 19th Workshop on Information Optics, WIO 2025, Castelldefels, Spain, invited talk (July 2025).
  12. Martí Duocastella. "How optical microscopes can shape the future of nanoscience." Capita Selecta 2025-2026 (online), invited talk (March 2026).
  13. Martí Duocastella. "Shaping light with sound for fast and deep 3D imaging." SPIE Defense + Security, Washington DC, USA, keynote talk (May 2026).
  14. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Monitoring degradation of mitochondria in cardiac cells." Invited speaker at Annual meeting of the Scandinavian Physiological Society, Stockholm, Sweden, Sept 2-5 2021.
  15. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Monitoring mitochondria degradation in cardiac cells." Invited speaker at NORHEART seminar "Targeting mitochondria in cardiovascular disease," University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Dec 9 2021.
  16. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "OrganVision: An ERC funded interdisciplinary collaboration project." Invited speaker at IMB conference, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, June 13, 2022.
  17. Mireia Nager. "Marked increase in mitochondria degradation in engineered heart tissue during reperfusion." Invited speaker at Experimental Health Research Conference, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, June 21-22, 2023.
  18. Mireia Nager. "Mitophagy is induced in engineered heart tissue after simulated ischemia and reperfusion." Invited speaker at NORHEART seminar "Pathways and Regulatory Mechanisms in Metabolism and Mitochondrial Function," UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, May 12-13, 2025.
  19. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Exploiting cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells and engineered heart tissue for studying cellular mechanism in the human heart." Experimental Health Research Conference, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, June 16-17, 2025.
  20. Mireia Nager. "Mitophagy is induced in engineered heart tissue after simulated ischemia and reperfusion." Invited speaker at a webinar MITOtalks/Focalplane, July 3, 2025.
  21. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "HeartVision – a success story of OrganVision." Invited speaker at IMB conference, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Nov 20 2025.
  22. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Interdisciplinary collaboration synergy." Invited speaker at Research leader seminar, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Feb 12, 2026.
  23. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Exploiting engineered heart tissue to decipher mitochondria quality control in the human heart." Invited speaker at NOR-MPS – the annual Nordic Organoid and Microphysiological Systems Convention, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Feb 13, 2026.
  24. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Focus on engineered heart tissue transplantation: The HeartVision project." Invited speaker at NORHEART seminar "Mechanisms in Cardiac Metabolism and Mitochondrial function: Highlighting Translational Aspects," UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, May 10-11, 2026.
  25. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Monitoring mitochondria turnover and transfer in cardiac cells." Invited speaker at Bioscopy conference, UiT-The Arctic University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, June 15-17, 2026.
  26. D. Bhattacharya. "Development of a label-free computational resolution enhancement method towards biomedical applications." Bioscopy-2026, Tromsø, Norway.
  27. Yingying Qin. "Practical challenges in inverse scattering for RI reconstruction with label-free coherent microscopy." The Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2026), Suzhou, July 2026. (Invited)
  28. Dilip Prasad. "AI for Biological problems: Challenges, Solutions, and Lessons from Microscopy and Life-Science Applications." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, 2026.
  29. Krishna Agarwal. "Computational microscopy." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, 2026.
  30. Marti Duocastella. "Deep imaging in scattering media using ultrasonic endoscopes." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, 2026.
  31. Matteo Bregonzio. "A Privacy-Preserving Approach to Data and Artificial Intelligence." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, 2026.
  32. Åsa B. Birgisdottir. "Monitoring mitochondria turnover and transfer in cardiac cells." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, 2026.
  33. Dipanjan Bhattacharya. "Development of a label-free computational resolution enhancement method towards biomedical applications." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, 2026.
  34. Dipanjan Bhattacharya. "Label-free chemical imaging with computerised super-resolution method to explore demyelination in Alzheimer's Disease." ARUK Annual meeting (2025), United Kingdom.
  35. Florian Weinberger. "Insights into Cardiac Repair Mechanisms from Engineered Heart Tissue." Keynote speaker at NOR-MPS – the annual Nordic Organoid and Microphysiological Systems Convention, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Feb 13, 2026.
  36. Florian Weinberger. "Cardiac Repair Mechanisms – Insights from Opto- and Chemogenetic Approaches." ICGEB, Seminar Series, Trieste, Italy, 2025.
  37. Florian Weinberger. "Cardiac Repair Mechanisms – Insights from Opto- and Chemogenetic Approaches." McEwen Stem Cell Institute, Seminar Series, Toronto, Canada, 2025.
  38. Florian Weinberger. "Cardiac Repair Mechanisms – Insights from Opto- and Chemogenetic Approaches." NIH PCTC Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium, Madrid, Spain, 2025.
  39. Florian Weinberger. "Pluripotent stem cell-based heart repair." Queen Mary University, London Cardiovascular Seminar Series, Online, 2024.
  40. Florian Weinberger. "Pluripotent stem cell-based heart repair." Cardioascona 2024, Ascona, Switzerland, 2024.
  41. Florian Weinberger. "Pluripotent stem cell-based heart repair." TRON, Translational Oncology, curATalk Seminar Series, Mainz, Germany, 2024.
  42. Florian Weinberger. "Human engineered heart tissue transplantation in a guinea pig chronic injury model." Invited speaker at ISHR-European Section Meeting, Porto, Portugal, 2023.
  43. Florian Weinberger. "Contractile force of transplanted cardiomyocytes actively supports heart function after injury." Invited speaker at Herztage, German Cardiac Society, October, Bonn, Germany, 2023.
  44. Florian Weinberger. "Cardiac tissue engineering – opportunities for cardiac regeneration." Invited speaker at CNIC Regeneration Symposium, Madrid, Spain, 2022.
  45. Florian Weinberger. "What is Good Enough Myocardial Repair, Recovery or Remission in Chronic Heart Failure? Basic Science Perspective." Invited speaker at U-Cars Symposium 2022, Salt Lake City, USA (virtual), 2022.
  46. Florian Weinberger. "Tissue Engineering und Stammzellen am Herz." Invited speaker at Annual meeting German Transplantation Society, Erlangen, Germany, 2022.
  47. Florian Weinberger. "Stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte transplantation – pharmacological considerations." Invited speaker at 16th Qian-Jiang International Cardiovascular Symposium, Beijing, China (virtual), 2022.
  48. Florian Weinberger. "Stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte transplantation – pharmacological considerations." Invited speaker at ISHR World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2022.
  49. Florian Weinberger. "Finding an Appropriate Dose for Engineered Heart Tissue." Invited speaker at Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium, Göttingen, Germany, 2022.
  50. Florian Weinberger. "Finding an Appropriate Dose for Engineered Heart Tissue." Invited speaker at Translational Research Seminar Series, SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Canada (virtual), 2021.
  51. Krishna Agarwal invited as the lead speaker of the session "Data-driven Science by Data Science" at CEDAS Conference, organized at UiB, Bergen, 1-2 June 2021. https://cedasconf.w.uib.no/programme/

Regular presentations/articles/posters

  1. Jadhav, S., Prasad, D. K., & Agarwal, K. (2026). "SAM for Robust Mitochondria Instance Segmentation in Fluorescence Microscopy." In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 6212-6220).
  2. Buhnila, I., Sinha, A., Agarwal, R., Prasad, D. K., & Constant, M. "Evaluating LLM-as-a-Judge for Medical Term Simplification." ACL BioNLP, 2026.
  3. Agarwal, R., Sinha, A., Vishwakarma, A., Coubez, X., Clausel, M., Constant, M., ... & Prasad, D. K. "No imputation needed: a switch approach to irregularly sampled time series." NeurIPS Workshop (2025).
  4. Y. Huang, Y. Qin and K. Agarwal. "Shape based forward solver for multi-nested body in label-free microscopy." Focus on Microscopy, Taipei 2025.
  5. Y. Qin, Y. Zhong, and K. Agarwal. "Forward modeling of mesoscopic imaging with radiative transfer equation." Focus on Microscopy, Taipei 2025.
  6. Y. Qin, Y. Zhong, and K. Agarwal. "A different perspective on illumination choice for label-free scattering microscopy." Focus on Microscopy 2026, Stockholm, March 2026.
  7. F. Niknam, K. Agarwal. "High-Fidelity Volumetric Tissue Microscopy: Integrating Computational Adaptive Optics with Accelerated Deconvolution." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø 2026.
  8. F. Niknam, Y. Anbarestani. "Toward Clinical 3D Pathology: Opportunities and Technological Challenges in Light Microscopy." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø 2026.
  9. F. Niknam, K. Agarwal. "Computational Adaptive Optics for Thick Tissue Microscopy via Linear Bayesian Modeling of Anisotropic Scattering." Focus on Microscopy, Stockholm 2026.
  10. F. Niknam, K. Agarwal. "Computational PSF Estimation Enables Aberration-Free Deconvolution." Focus on Microscopy, Taipei 2025.
  11. A. A. Sekh. "Challenges and Role of Federated Learning in Microscopy Data Analysis." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, 2026.
  12. F. Niknam, K. Agarwal. "Fast and High-Fidelity Deconvolution Enabled by Modified Richardson-Lucy Algorithm." Focus on Microscopy, Taipei 2025.
  13. F. Niknam, K. Agarwal. "Modified Richardson-Lucy Algorithm enables High-Fidelity and Fast Deconvolution." BioPhysics Symposium, Tromsø 2024.
  14. F. Niknam, K. Agarwal. "A Blind Deconvolution Approach for Wide-Field Microscopy." Optica Imaging Conference, Toulouse 2024.
  15. N. Cuzzocrea, N. Mammone, C. Ieracitano, Y. Qin, K. Agarwal and M. T. Bevacqua. "Towards a physics-informed deep learning approach for 3D phaseless microscopy." International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC 2026), Cosenza, April 2026.
  16. Y. Qin, Y. Zhong and K. Agarwal. "Illumination Mode Effects in Three-dimensional Inverse Scattering for Label-free Optical Imaging." The Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2026), Suzhou, July 2026.
  17. Y. Qin, K. Agarwal and Y. Zhong. "Forward and Inverse Modeling of Mesoscopic Optical Microscopy Using the Radiative Transfer Equation." The Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2026), Suzhou, July 2026.
  18. Y. Qin and K. Agarwal. "Inverse scattering based 3D refractive index imaging: modeling, reconstruction and illumination effects." XXXVIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS 2026), Krakow, August 2026.
  19. Y. Qin, Y. Zhong and K. Agarwal. "Modeling of light transport for mesoscopic optical microscopy." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, June 2026.
  20. Y. Qin, Y. Zhong and K. Agarwal. "Computational modeling of light transport for mesoscopic optical microscopy." Bioscopy Conference, Tromsø, June 2026.
  21. Y. Qin and K. Agarwal. "3D refractive index imaging from coherent label-free microscopy: inverse scattering reconstruction and the influence of illumination modes." SPIE Photonics West 2026, San Francisco, January 2026.
  22. Y. Huang, Y. Qin, Y. Zhong and K. Agarwal. "Toward Reliable CIE Inversion for Optical Microscopy: A Framework for Hyper-parameter Selection and Efficient Reconstruction." The Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2025), Chiba, November 2025.
  23. Y. Huang, Y. Qin and K. Agarwal. "Shape-based Forward Modeling via SIEs for Label-free Microscopy." The Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2025), Chiba, November 2025.
  24. Y. Qin, Y. Zhong, and K. Agarwal. "Reconstruction of objects at cell scale from microscope images with inverse scattering algorithm." International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA – IEEE APWC 2025), Palermo, September 2025.
  25. Y. Qin, A. Butola, Y. Zhong, and K. Agarwal. "3D refractive index reconstruction from phaseless coherent label-free imaging." Focus on Microscopy 2025, Taipei, April 2025.
  26. Y. Qin, A. Butola, and K. Agarwal. "Adaption of subspace-based optimization method for dark field microscopy data." IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and ITNC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI 2024), Florence, July 2024.
  27. Y. Qin, A. Butola, and K. Agarwal. "Adaptation and performance of well-known non-linear inverse solvers in optical microscopy." IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and ITNC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI 2024), Florence, July 2024.
  28. Y. Qin, A. Butola, and K. Agarwal. "Preliminary Test Study on RI Reconstruction Performance with Label-free Microscope Data by Inverse Scattering Algorithms." The Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2024), Chengdu, April 2024.
  29. Y. Qin, A. Butola, and K. Agarwal. "Adaptation of Inverse Scattering Algorithms for 3D Refractive Index Reconstruction with Coherent Label-free Microscope Data." The Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2024), Chengdu, April 2024.
  30. Ghosh, B. and Agarwal, K. "Biomimetic hydrogel topology facilitates cell plasticity via actin remodeling to modulate cell motility: A multimodal optical imaging-based evaluation." Tissue Engineering International and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), 2025.
  31. Ghosh, B. and Agarwal, K. "Live measurement of cancer cell motility and plasticity by label-free imaging of intracellular actin dynamics using gradient light interference microscopy." Focus on Microscopy (FOM) 2025.
  32. König, K. et al. "Multimodal Femtosecond Fiber Laser Microscopy of Engineered Heart Tissues with Acousto-Optic Deflectors." Focus on Microscopy (FOM) 2025.
  33. Martin Skorsetz, Aisada König, Grzegorz Rieger, Martí Duocastella, Karsten König. "Acousto-Optic Deflector–Based Structured Illumination and Frequency-Encoded Multiphoton Microscopy for Scanless Imaging of Biological Tissues." Focus on Microscopy (FOM) 2026.
  34. D. Bhattacharya, A. Courtier, A. Rowlings, S. Lane, Laura Rodríguez, B. Creith, M. Duocastella, S. Mahajan. "Development of multimodal Rayleigh light-sheet and Frequency-encoded Microscopy for label-free chemical imaging of highly dynamic biological systems." Focus on Microscopy, Taiwan, 2025.
  35. D. Bhattacharya, D. Lamparte, K. Agarwal, S. Willaime-Morawek, S. Mahajan. "MUS-CARS: development of a computational resolution enhancement towards label-free chemical imaging." Focus on Microscopy, Stockholm, 2026.
  36. Ghosh, B., K. Fenton, K. Agarwal. "Creating In Vitro Kidney Glomerular Microenvironment In 3D Hydrogels For Studying Chronic Kidney Diseases." Tissue Engineering Part A, 2024.
  37. Karsten König, Aisada König, Dmitry Pankin, Martin Skorsetz, Florian Weinberger, Nancy Shehata, Krishna Agarwal, Marti Duocastella. "Label-free multimodal femtosecond fiber laser microscopy of organoids with acousto-optic deflectors." Proc. SPIE 13324, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXV, 133240A (2025). doi: 10.1117/12.3039099
  38. Pietro Ricci, Andrea Marchese, Christos Alexandropoulos, Laura Rodríguez-Suñé, Martí Duocastella. "Toward faster microscopy with encoded illumination." In M. Ebrahim-Zadeh et al. (Eds.), WIO 2025: Workshop on Information Optics, Springer Nature (2026), 33-36. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-11838-7
  39. Bhansal, Arushika, Abhinanda Ranjit Punnakkal, and Dilip K. Prasad. "On Generalization of 3D Generative Models." (2025). AAI Workshop 2025. https://aair-lab.github.io/genplan25/papers/21.pdf
  40. Agarwal, Rohit, Aman Sinha, Ayan Vishwakarma, Xavier Coubez, Marianne Clausel, Mathieu Constant, Alexander Horsch, and Dilip K. Prasad. "No imputation needed: a switch approach to irregularly sampled time series." NeurIPS Workshop 2025. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08698 (2023).
  41. Agarwal, Rohit, Aryan Dessai, Arif Ahmed Sekh, Krishna Agarwal, Alexander Horsch, and Dilip K. Prasad. "Haphazard inputs as images in online learning." In 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN64981.2025.11228356
  42. Buckchash, Himanshu, Momojit Biswas, Rohit Agarwal, and Dilip K. Prasad. "Hedging is not all you need: A simple baseline for online learning under haphazard inputs." In ICASSP 2025 – 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2025. Link
  43. Pal, R., Kar, S., & Prasad, D. K. (2025). "NorViVQA: Visual question answering for visually impaired in Norwegian language." In Proceedings of the Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society 2025 (pp. 26–37). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
  44. N. Banerjee, S. Malakar, D. K. Gupta, A. Horsch, D.K. Prasad. "Guided U-Net aided Efficient Image Data Storing with Shape Preservation." Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2023), Kitakyushu, Japan, 5-8 November 2023.
  45. R. Agarwal, G. Das, S. Aggarwal, A. Horsch, D.K. Prasad. "MABNET: Master Assistant Buddy Network With Hybrid Learning for Image Retrieval." IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
  46. Agarwal, Rohit, Krishna Agarwal, Alexander Horsch, and Dilip K. Prasad. "Auxiliary Network: Scalable and agile online learning for dynamic system with inconsistently available inputs." In International Conference on Neural Information Processing, pp. 549-561. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
  47. Sebastian Acuña and Krishna Agarwal. "MUSICAL: a family of computational techniques for fluorescence nanoscopy." Focus on Microscopy, Porto, 2-5 April 2023.
  48. B. Ghosh, K. Fenton, K. Agarwal. "GelMA hydrogel mechanics affect the collective migration of fibroblast cells." TERMIS European Chapter Meeting, Manchester, UK, March 2023.
  49. B. Ghosh, K. A. Fenton, K. Agarwal. "Gradient Light Interference Microscopy for label-free detection of early changes in kidney cells embedded in a soft and stiff hydrogel matrix." Focus on Microscopy, Porto, 2-5 April 2023.
  50. B. Ghosh, S. Acuña, K. Agarwal. "MUSI-tAF: autofluorescence-based super-resolution of collagen fibrils in fixed tissues for density estimation." Focus on Microscopy, Porto, 2-5 April 2023.
  51. S. Jadhav, S. Majhi, A.S. Chowdhury, D.K. Prasad, K. Agarwal. "Reconstructing 3D shape from 3D ThunderSTORM Point Clouds." Focus on Microscopy, Porto, 2-5 April 2023.
  52. I.S. Opstad, S. Acuña, S. Ströhl, F. Ströhl, B.S. Ahluwalia, K. Agarwal. "Blind reconstruction of challenging raw data outperforms commercial 3DSIM." Focus on Microscopy, Porto, 2-5 April 2023.
  53. Andrea Marchese, Pietro Ricci, Peter Saggau, Martí Duocastella. "Kilohertz frequency encoded microscopy using acousto-optic deflectors." Focus on Microscopy, Porto, Portugal, contributed talk (April 2023).
  54. Christos Alexandropoulos, Martí Duocastella. "Quantitative phase imaging of fast dynamic events using acousto-optics and pulsed illumination." Focus on Microscopy, Porto, Portugal, contributed talk (April 2023).
  55. K. Agarwal, Z. Liu, M. Roy, D. K. Prasad. "Physics-guided Loss Functions Impact Performance of Deep-learning-based Inverse-scattering-problem Solver." PIERS 2023, Prague.
  56. Mireia Nager. "Marked increase in mitochondria degradation in engineered heart tissue during reperfusion." Poster presented at American Heart Association meeting, Chicago, US, Nov 5-7, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1161/circ.146.suppl_1.14720
  57. Judith Rössinger. "Chemogenetics to study the interplay between cardiac contractility and cardiomyocyte morphology." Presented at the Keystone Conference, Santa Fe, USA, 2023.
  58. Christoph Manthey. "Stem cell-derived engineered heart tissue develops in the absence of contractility." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Cardiac Society, Mannheim, Germany, 2023.
  59. Rajiven Srikantharajah. "Engineered heart tissue with a pharmacological off-switch as a tool to study the influence of cardiac work on cardiomyocyte maturation." Presented at ISHR World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2022.
  60. Bangfen Pan. "A simple and flexible platform for optogenetic pacing in cardiac tissue engineering." Presented at ISHR World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2022.
  61. Karl-Felix Müller. "Engineered heart tissue and optogenetics – a powerful and versatile combination." Presented at ISHR World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2022.
  62. Tim Stüdemann. "Transplanted iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes actively contribute to left ventricular function." Presented at ISHR World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2022.
  63. Judith Rössinger. "Generation of human engineered heart tissue with a chemo- and optogenetic off-on switch." Presented at ISHR World Congress, Berlin, Germany.
  64. Lorenzo Venieri. "Generative Adversarial Networks for Virtual Fluorescent Staining." Presented at the 24th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, Porto, Portugal, June 2024.
  65. Rajiven Srikantharajah. "Cardiac Work Inhibits Cell Cycle Activity in Engineered Heart Tissue." Presented at Herzmedizin 2024 (56. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Kardiologie und Angeborene Herzfehler e.V.), 2024, Hamburg, Germany.
  66. Rajiven Srikantharajah. "Chemogenetic engineered heart tissue to study the influence of contractility on cardiac maturation." XXV ISHR World Congress, Nara, Japan, 2025.
  67. Nancy Shehata. "Analysing the interaction between cardiomyocyte work and cell-cycle with human stem cell derived engineered heart tissue." Presented at Gordon Research Conference – Cardiac Regulatory Mechanism, Colby Sawyer, US, 2024.
  68. Nancy Shehata. "Analysing the interaction between cardiomyocyte work and cell-cycle with human stem cell derived engineered heart tissue." Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium, Madrid, Spain, 2025.
  69. Nancy Shehata. "Analysing the interaction between cardiomyocyte work and cell-cycle with human stem cell derived engineered heart tissue." Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium, XXV ISHR World Congress, Nara, Japan, 2025.

Codesets & datasets

  1. Opstad, Ida (2023). "Fluorescence microscopy videos of mitochondria and endosomes in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts." DataverseNO, V1. https://doi.org/10.18710/HQDBYF
  2. Opstad, Ida (2023). "Fluorescence microscopy videos of mitochondria in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts." DataverseNO, V1. https://doi.org/10.18710/11LLTW
  3. Opstad, Ida (2023). "Replication Data for: Multiple signal classification as a blind reconstruction approach for three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy." DataverseNO, V1. https://doi.org/10.18710/3POVDT
  4. Codeset: Master Thesis. A. V. Celeste. "Presenting CODS (Cell Organelle Dynamic Simulation)." https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29335
  5. R. Agarwal, et al. Replication codes for "MABNET: Master Assistant Buddy Network With Hybrid Learning for Image Retrieval." IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. https://github.com/Rohit102497/MABNet. YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUiJ9SHa-9Q
  6. Tool & Video Protocol: Tool on fluorescence microscopy images of fixed cardiomyoblasts. https://www.jove.com/t/64880/analyzing-mitochondrial-morphology-through-simulation-supervised
  7. A. Somani. Summer School Course Tutorial Codeset "Interpretable DL Playground." https://github.com/AyushSomani001/IDL/tree/main
  8. Paper Code: "Virtual Labeling of Mitochondria in Living Cells using Physics-guided Deep Learning." https://github.com/AyushSomani001/VirtualStain_I2I
  9. Arctic LLM Workshop Hands-on Tutorial Session. https://github.com/bioailab/Arctic-LLM-Workshop-2023
  10. Codeset: "Modelling Irregularly Sampled Time Series Without Imputation." https://github.com/Rohit102497/SLAN
  11. Codeset: "Wasserstein GAN for three-dimensional multi-channel virtual fluorescent staining." https://github.com/organvision-eu/digital_staining
  12. Codeset: "Online Learning under Haphazard Input Conditions: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis." https://github.com/Rohit102497/HaphazardInputsReview
  13. Codeset: "Aux-Drop: Handling Haphazard Inputs in Online Learning Using Auxiliary Dropouts." https://github.com/Rohit102497/Aux-Drop
  14. Phase 1 digital staining AI model codesets using Co-Fl-Lf datasets from conventional microscopes. https://github.com/organvision-eu/digital_staining
  15. Codeset and dataset for Chakraborty, A., Joardar, S., Prasad, D. K., & Sekh, A. A. (2025). "Graph-based hostile content detection in Hindi language." Discover Computing 28, Article 264. DOI: 10.1007/s10791-025-09790-0. https://github.com/mani-design/B-RGCN
  16. Punnakkal, Abhinanda Ranjit; Jadhav, Suyog S; Celeste, Aaron Vaughn; Horsch, Alexander; Agarwal, Krishna; Prasad, Dilip K (2024). "3DMSL - 3D Mitochondria Shape Library for Optical Microscopy." DataverseNO, V2. https://doi.org/10.18710/JX6JXF
  17. Dataset and codeset for "BMWP: the first Bengali math word problems dataset for operation prediction and solving." Discover Artificial Intelligence 5, no. 1 (2025): 25. https://github.com/SanchitaMondal/BMWP

Intellectual property, innovation, and industry participation

IPs

  1. "An imaging device and a method to reconstruct an image." Patent application submitted in 2024. Published on April 2nd, 2026 – publication number WO/2026/067993.
  2. "Biological Assay Apparatus" related to Cymoplive. Patent filed in 2023. International patent application GB2309453.5, published 22 Dec 2024.
  3. "Computational adaptive optics." Patent filed in 2026.
  4. MarGel – Marine-sourced hydrogel as biomimetic assay material. Invention disclosure in Sep 2024.
  5. FIREBAL. Invention disclosure submitted. Patent application being drafted.
  6. MacroMicroAI. Invention disclosure submitted. Commercialization currently postponed.

Participation in innovation programs, awards, and trainings

  1. B. Ghosh trained in innovation at "Life science innovation and commercialization at BII Summer School" in 2023. Link
  2. B. Ghosh trained at REACH Silicon Valley innovation program funded by Research Council of Norway (RCN), 2025-2026.
  3. B. Ghosh participated in Forge Accelerator, Norway, in 2025.
  4. Cymoplive selected for EIC Venture Building Program, 2024.
  5. Cymoplive selected for EIC Pioneer Program, 2024.
  6. Farhad Niknam trained at EIC Bootcamp program 2023 for Computational Adaptive Optics.
  7. Farhad Niknam, Suyog Jadhav and Rohit Agarwal completed DLN mini-MBA course – innovation and commercialization course from idea formation to business plan development and commercialization. Coordinated by Digital Life Norway, April 15-19th 2024, Oslo. Rohit Agarwal's team won the best pitch competition.
  8. Krishna Agarwal participated in EIC Women Leadership cohort 7.
  9. Agarwal and Prasad attended Innovation Bootcamp at Action Community for Entrepreneurship (Singapore) in 2023.
  10. Jenlab received "Innovator of the Year 2023" and "Public's Choice Award," German Economy, November 17th, Berlin.
  11. JenLab was a finalist (top 10 among 110 submissions) for Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Prize in 2023.
  12. JenLab is a finalist for the 2024 Prism Award in the Biomedical Photonics category by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Industry events organization and participation

  1. 10/22/2022 – AI4future, Viterbo, Italy. Project presentation by Krishna Agarwal and Giulia De Poli at the AI4future event with title "OrganVision – Nanoscopic window into the life of heart." https://datrixgroup.com/ai4future/
  2. 09/03/2022 – GO BEYOND 2022, online event dedicated to the Italian healthcare industry. Project presentation by Matteo Bregonzio highlighting 3rdPlace contribution on image processing. https://ikn.it/go-beyond/

Industry discussions

Besides, Agarwal’s team is also in communication with confocal.nl, Intelligent Imaging Innovations Inc. (3i) regarding innovations and in engagement with Nvidia, AMD, Lightspeed Photonics, Amazon UK, Google Singapore, Samsung India, Samsung Vietnam, VinAI, Cerebras and SiloAI for scientific cooperation. Ibidi-GmbH has provided feedback on Cymoplive and still in communication to assess further interest. Discussions are ongoing with Astrazeneca for Cymoplive’s pilot. Different 3D cell culture, organoid and spheroid manufacturing companies like Gelomics, React4life, Readily3D, Advanced Biomatrix, CollPlant, and Cellink have been engaged to understand the opportunities and challenges for CymoPlive.

International cooperation

Almost all the cooperation targets are met. UiT’s Agarwal is an international collaborator by USA funded CLIMB center headed by Stephen Boppart (UIUC). UiT’s Prasad has been funded an EIC transition project as a co-PI which is led by Ahluwalia (UiT) and includes Pepperkok (EMBL) as partner. Chai Quek (NTU) and Dwarikanath Mohapatra (Inception Inc.) are included as a co-supervisors on UiT-funded PhD positions that contributed in- kind support to part of OrganVision activity. Yu Zhong has been hired as an adjunct associate professor on OrganVision (15%) through EU funds. Eschenhagen (UKE), AG Christ (UKE), Simon Wiegert (Heidelberg University), Myrmel (UNN), Sumeet Mahajan (USoton, UK), Xudong Chen (NUS, Singapore) etc. have been included as general assembly members or advisors. B. Ghosh and S. Acuna from Agarwal’s team and A. Somani from Prasad’s team received Erasmus plus mobility grant of ~1000 Euros each for research travel on 24.10.2022. Ghosh and Acuna undertook 1-month Research visit at EMBL Heidelberg with Advanced Light Microscopy Facility in February 2023 and worked on vesicle counting method with computational super-resolution methods. Somani undertook a visit to CLIMB Center at UIUC. Agarwal’s team hosted and supervised 2 Bachelor's students from Université de RENNES, France May- July 2023. Ghosh mentored 1 PhD candidate in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India resulting in a publication126. Ghosh from Agarwal’s team undertook 1-week Research visit to the University of Southampton in March 2023127. Prof. A. S. Chowdhury (Jadavpur University) hosted by Prasad’s group at UiT in Oct 2022 (co- supervision of a master student and co-authored papers). Two team members of Prasad’ team went to National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (3 months each in 2023). Prasad kickstarted a collaboration with Marianne Clausel,Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France (papers being co-authored) and Xavier Coubez, Institut de Cancerologie Strasbourg, France (papers being co-authored). Prasad was hosted by Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli and Agarwal was hosted by Prof. Xudong Chen for 6 months (Jan-Jun 2023) at NUS Singapore. In addition, OrganVision-related activities were strengthened through international collaborations with Ajit Bopardikar, University of Houston, USA; Cao Qi, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore; Hisham Cholakkal, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE; and Hari Mohan Pandey, Bournemouth University, UK. These collaborations expanded OrganVision’s international research network and support knowledge exchange across AI, biomedical imaging, computational methods, and translational innovation. Duocastella and Agarwal each hosted Prof. Peter Torok of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore at their sites in order to develop collaboration on specialized lens designs. It is being discussed if pilot validations of CAO can be undertaken at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering led by Prof. Peter Torok. Agarwal invited and hosted Emeritus Professor Colin Sheppard for a month where his 50+ years long pioneering expertise on modeling of elastic scattering of light in microscopy systems was utilized for carving ideas regarding the work done in WP2.

Visibility and outreach in scientific communities

Organization of scientific events, workshops and courses

  • Bioscopy Conference 2026 (https://www.3dnanoscopy.com/bioscopy-conference/): The OrganVision team organized the Bioscopy Conference 2026 as an international scientific event connecting life sciences, advanced imaging, microscopy, artificial intelligence, computational biology, and translational research. The idea emerged during the OrganVision annual meeting in Berlin and was developed into a full event led by PhD students and researchers, under the advisory of Agarwal, Ghosh and Birgisdottir. The team designed the scientific program, coordinated invited talks, managed event planning, raised sponsorship, and applied for event-organization funding from RCN, along with sponsorship support from organizations such as Optica and Euro-BioImaging. The conference brought together international speakers from multiple countries and attracted around 70 registered participants, creating a strong platform for interdisciplinary scientific exchange, networking, and collaboration among researchers working at the interface of biology, microscopy, AI, and biomedical innovation. For OrganVision, organizing Bioscopy was important because it strengthened the project's international visibility, expanded its scientific network, and demonstrated its role in building a collaborative community around next-generation imaging and AI-enabled biomedical research.
  • Panel session at the AI Impact Summit India 2026 (https://www.bioailab.org/indaiaisummit2026): Prof. Dilip K. Prasad proposed the panel session "AI in Healthcare: Navigating Innovation, Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance" to the AI Impact Summit 2026, where it was accepted and featured as part of the summit program. This was important for the OrganVision team because the session positioned OrganVision within a broader international discussion on responsible AI innovation in healthcare. As part of OrganVision and UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Prof. Prasad helped bring together perspectives from AI research, biomedical imaging, clinical practice, ethics, and regulation. The accepted panel highlighted OrganVision's relevance beyond technical development, showing its alignment with clinically meaningful, trustworthy, and responsible AI for healthcare. It featured in an international news media article (read here).
  • EIC Pathfinder proposal writing workshop: The EU national contact point in Norway invited Krishna Agarwal to conduct a workshop on EIC Pathfinder grant writing, attended by around 40 registered and eligible candidates preparing for EIC Pathfinder applications. As OrganVision itself is an EIC Pathfinder portfolio project, this invitation demonstrated that expertise developed within the OrganVision team is now being shared to support the next generation of European research and innovation proposals. For OrganVision, this was significant because it strengthened the project's visibility beyond its scientific goals, positioning the team as an experienced contributor to the EIC Pathfinder community, capable of guiding other researchers on how to frame ambitious, high-risk, high-gain research ideas for European funding. The workshop also highlighted OrganVision's broader impact: not only advancing AI-enabled 3D label-free organoid imaging, but also contributing to capacity building, grant-writing excellence, and leadership in Europe's innovation funding landscape.
  • Innovation workshop for researchers by researchers: As part of the Bioscopy Conference 2026, held from 15–17 June 2026 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, an Innovation Workshop was conducted and sponsored, designed for researchers and led by researchers. The workshop encouraged young scientists to look beyond experiments and publications, and to explore how research ideas can be translated into products, services, and societal solutions. A key strength was that innovation was taught in a language researchers understand, rather than through business-world jargon or abstract commercialization methods. Through sessions led by Krishna Agarwal, Komal Agarwal, Biswajoy Ghosh, and Magnus Engeset from InnoHub UiT, participants learned innovation vocabulary, user-centered problem framing, ecosystem support, and practical pathways from lab to market. The final team pitch session showcased strong creativity and translational thinking. Overall, the workshop was important because it gave researchers hands-on experience in turning scientific knowledge into real-world impact.
  • OrganVision workshop at Southampton: The workshop was conducted at the University of Southampton between 19 and 21 June 2024 under Bhattacharya's leadership. This immersive hands-on workshop offered an in-depth introduction to microscopy, blending theoretical knowledge with practical experience. Participants explored the fundamentals of microscopy and gained exposure to a range of advanced microscopy techniques, including confocal microscopy, light-sheet microscopy, Raman microscopy and others. The course also introduced super-resolution methods such as MUSIC and structured illumination microscopy (SIM), demonstrating techniques that extend optical resolution beyond the diffraction limit. Participants also learned modern image processing techniques, including segmentation and thresholding, channel splitting and merging, intensity measurements, and quantitative image analysis, gaining practical experience with ImageJ. The workshop was intended for researchers, students, and professionals seeking to strengthen their microscopy skills and gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art bioimaging techniques in an interactive learning environment. No prior microscopy experience was required. Thirty researchers undertook the workshop.
  • Arctic LLM Workshop 2023: The Arctic LLM Workshop 2023, organized by Prof. Dilip K. Prasad's team on 27–28 October 2023, was highly relevant to OrganVision because it helped build foundational confidence and practical knowledge around large language models within the AI and biomedical research community in Tromsø. With 12 presenters and around 40 participants, the workshop was designed to make LLMs accessible to AI aspirants in Norway and to members of the OrganVision team, showing that LLMs are not a "scary beast" but a manageable and learnable technology. For OrganVision, this capacity-building activity was important because the project operates at the intersection of AI, imaging, biology, and translational research, where understanding emerging AI tools can support scientific communication, data interpretation, workflow design, and future innovation. The workshop strengthened the local AI ecosystem around OrganVision and encouraged researchers to engage confidently with next-generation AI methods.
  • Summer course on Interpretability in Deep Learning (2023, 2024, 2025): The PhD course and summer school on Interpretability in Deep Learning, first organized in summer 2023 through the Digital Life Norway Research School and NORA framework, has become an important capacity-building activity for AI education and interdisciplinary research communities. The course was organized three times in 2023, 2024, and 2025, with participants joining from across Europe and India, creating an international learning environment around explainable and trustworthy deep learning. Its relevance is especially strong for interdisciplinary teams such as OrganVision, where AI methods must be understandable to researchers working across microscopy, biology, computation, and biomedical applications. The course has now also been adapted into recorded YouTube lectures, making the material suitable for flipped-classroom teaching, self-learning, and wider knowledge sharing beyond the original summer school participants. This transformation extends the impact of the course from a time-bound training activity into a reusable educational resource for building confidence and competence in interpretable AI across diverse research teams.
  • Summer course on Generative AI for Health and Life Sciences 2025: The INF-8606 Generative AI for Health and Life Sciences summer school, organized through the Digital Life Norway Research School in 2024 and 2025, was an important training activity for building competence in modern AI methods across biomedical and life-science research communities. The summer school introduced PhD students and researchers to practical applications of generative AI in health and life sciences, supporting their understanding of how these tools can contribute to data interpretation, visualization, scientific workflows, and biomedical discovery. For interdisciplinary projects such as OrganVision, this training was highly relevant because the project connects AI, microscopy, organoid biology, imaging, and translational research. By presenting generative AI in an accessible and application-oriented format, the summer school strengthened confidence, knowledge sharing, and cross-disciplinary collaboration among researchers working at the interface of AI and life sciences.

Leadership and representation for impact on research communities

  1. OrganVision young researchers organized the Bioscopy Conference in Tromsø in 2026 (https://en.uit.no/tavla/artikkel/921104/bioscopy_conference_2026).
  2. Duocastella appointed as the Director of the Nanoscience Institute at University of Barcelona in 2026.
  3. Agarwal was invited and served as a panel chair for the Applied Physics and Engineering panel of the Swedish Research Council for 2024 and 2025. Invited again for 2026 but declined.
  4. Duocastella was invited and served as a panelist for the Applied Physics and Engineering panel of the Swedish Research Council for 2024 and 2025. Invited again for 2026 but declined.
  5. Duocastella is a panel member of Agencia Española de Investigación, programa Ramón y Cajal (2026).
  6. Duocastella is a panel member of Agencia Española de Investigación, proyectos Generación de Conocimiento (2026).
  7. Duocastella served as program committee member for Forum Acusticum, "S7. Physical acoustics, acousto-optics" (2025).
  8. Duocastella served as a co-chair for the International Workshop on Laser Material Processing and Applications (LMPA) 2023.
  9. Prasad appointed as NeurIPS area chair since 2022.
  10. Prasad serves as associate editor in Nature Scientific Data since 2024.
  11. Agarwal invited for Fireside Chat in the Introductory Session of EIC Women Leadership research and entrepreneurial cohorts 2026, 11 May 2026.
  12. Birgisdottir invited to be a Member of the organizing committee for NOR-MPS, the annual Nordic Organoid and Microphysiological Systems Convention, Hybrid Technology Hub, University of Oslo.
  13. Birgisdottir was appointed a Panelist in the IACS (International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences) webinar, 3rd of Feb 2026 (link).
  14. Duocastella serves as a program committee member "Laser-based Micro- and Nanoprocessing," SPIE Photonics West (2022-present).
  15. Duocastella serves as a program committee member "High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy," SPIE Photonics West (2019-present).
  16. Prasad organized a summer school on "Interpretability in Deep Learning" with the support of DLN (link) and NORA (link).
  17. Prasad was appointed program chair in the 1st Workshop on Confabulation, Hallucinations and Overgeneration in Multilingual and Practical Settings (CHOMPS 2025) (link).
  18. Agarwal organized a focus session on "Computational Imaging" at PIERS 2024. It won the best session organizer award.
  19. Agarwal organized a focus session on "Inverse Imaging: Sharing Challenges, Solutions, and Cross-domain Perspectives" at PIERS 2026.
  20. Arctic LLM Workshop 2023, 27/28 October 2023 (12 presenters, ~40 participants) organized by Prasad's team (https://www.bioailab.org/arcticllmworkshop2023).
  21. Prasad organized the following summer courses in 2025:
    1. INF-8605 Interpretability in Deep Learning – 5 ECTS
    2. INF-8606 Generative AI for Health and Life Sciences – 5 ECTS
  22. Prasad organized a panel session "AI in Healthcare: Navigating Innovation, Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance" at the AI Impact Summit 2026.
  23. Prasad was invited to International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop 2023.
  24. Agarwal was appointed associate editor of an IEEE Transactions journal, 2023. She resigned from the duty due to an ongoing burnout and bandwidth limitations.
  25. Duocastella serves as a junior editor of the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IOP Science, impact factor 25) since 2022.
  26. Duocastella served as the guest editor of the special issue "Focus on ultrasound-based systems for light-control," Journal of Physics Photonics (2021-2022).

Highlights of visibility and outreach activities

  1. Jenlab received "Innovator of the Year 2023" and "Public's Choice Award," German Economy, November 17th, Berlin.
  2. JenLab was a finalist (top 10 among 110 submissions) for Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Prize in 2023.
  3. JenLab is a finalist for the 2024 Prism Award in the Biomedical Photonics category by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
  4. Krishna Agarwal, "My experience with EIC funding," Innovation Breakfast series, UiT, 19th Jan 2024.
  5. Krishna Agarwal, "My experience with EU funding," presented at Horizon Europe Launch at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 12th Feb 2021.
  6. Krishna Agarwal, "FET-Open Project OrganVision" – Presentation for the board of UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 4th March 2021.
  7. Biswajoy Ghosh invited for webinar at NTU Singapore Optical Bio-Imaging Centre's (NOBIC), Singapore, posted on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R9idBvxvck).
  8. "EU funding success story," Center of Ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate, 22nd November 2023.
  9. Krishna Agarwal, "My experience with EU funding," presented at Horizon Europe Launch at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 12th Feb 2021.
  10. Marti Duocastella, Seminari "Horizon Europe," presented at Universitat de Barcelona, 18th Jan 2022.
  11. Open Talks, OrganVision Annual Meeting, 19-21 June 2023, 8× open talks by PIs of OrganVision.
  12. Open Talks, OrganVision Annual Meeting, 19 June 2026, 7× open talks by PIs of OrganVision.
  13. Invited speaker in the convened session "Women's contributions in inverse electromagnetic problems" at URSI GASS 2021, Rome, 28 Aug – 4 Sept 2021.
  14. Young researcher Mireia Nager, from Birgisdottir's team, presented her results in a talk at the Experimental Health Research Conference (EHRC)–Mímisbrunnr 2023, organized by the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT (link).
  15. Rohit Agarwal, from Prasad's team, received the Golden Wings Book Award 2026 for his book "Cloud Computing for Everyone" (link).
  16. Åsa B. Birgisdottir, "OrganVision: An ERC funded interdisciplinary collaboration project," invited speaker at IMB conference, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, June 13, 2022.
  17. Åsa B. Birgisdottir, "HeartVision – a success story of OrganVision," invited speaker at IMB conference, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Nov 20 2025.
  18. Åsa B. Birgisdottir, "Interdisciplinary collaboration synergy," invited speaker at Research leader seminar, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Feb 12, 2026.
  19. Agarwal and Prasad were invited to present at the Digital Life Norway onboarding meeting, Tromsø, 9th Feb 2022.
  20. European funding feature by Digital Life Norway (https://www.digitallifenorway.org/research/nanorip/news/european-funding.html).
  21. Optica featured Krishna Agarwal's interview in Optica (previously OSA) Senior Member Insights (link).
  22. "Laser additive fabrication of tailored micro-optics," Marti Duocastella, Ernest Martí-Jerez, Salvatore Surdo, Proceedings Volume PC11989, Laser-based Micro- and Nanoprocessing XVI; PC1198904 (2022) (https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608835).
  23. Summer school on "Interpretability in Deep Learning," 12-19th June 2023 (https://www.bioailab.org/summerschool2023).
  24. Agarwal organizing focus session on "Computational Imaging: Novel System Design and Reconstruction Algorithms" at PIERS 2024.
  25. Arctic LLM Workshop 2023, 27/28 October 2023 (12 presenters, ~40 participants) organized by Prasad's team.
  26. Ghosh from Agarwal's team presented "Optical Microscopy of 3-D In Vitro Biological Models for Biomedical Research" at NTU Optical Bio-Imaging Centre's (NOBIC) µ-Talks, Singapore, June 2022, posted as a YouTube Video.
  27. Popular Science article by Krishna Agarwal and Biswajoy Ghosh (link).
  28. Featured LinkedIn and Twitter posts about our article by Digital Life Norway (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook).
  29. Prasad featured in Top 10 NTU Singapore Alumni Leaders 2023 by CEO Insights Magazine.
  30. Prasad invited to be a mentor for Social Benefits Startup for "CREATE4GOOD INNOVATION FUND," Singapore University of Technology and Design.
  31. Ghosh from Agarwal's team and Punnakkal from Prasad's team received a grant of 25 kNOK for the pilot project "Testing AI-based 3D synthetic reconstructions of cell organelles of 2D real microscopy images" as part of Digital Life Norway's (DLN) cross-project funding.
  32. Florian Weinberger chaired a session on Cardiac Regeneration at Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium, Göttingen, Germany, 2022.
  33. Florian Weinberger chaired sessions at the Annual Meeting of the German Cardiac Society (Mannheim, Germany) in 2022 and 2023.
  34. Florian Weinberger chaired sessions at the Herztage of the German Cardiac Society (Bonn, Germany) in 2022 and 2023.
  35. Florian Weinberger chaired a session at the ISHR European Section Meeting, Porto, Portugal ("Cardiac Regeneration: From Mechanisms to Therapy"), 2023.
  36. Florian Weinberger has received a grant from the German Research Foundation based on the results from OrganVision (€750,000).
  37. Prasad organized a special issue on "Interpretability in Deep Learning" for the Nordic Machine Intelligence Journal, 2023.

Public outreach

  1. OrganVision website: Organvision.eu
  2. Cymoplive website: https://cymoplive.com/
  3. OrganVision YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaDOc2ZJVJG1Itb_5rlx7Kw
  4. Cymoplive explainer video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZ6gh-q6kQ).
  5. Released a full course (INF-8605, 5 ECTS) on Interpretability in Deep Learning on YouTube (link).
  6. "Jubel for forsknings-ja på morgendagens teknologi," UiT Newsletter, December 8, 2020 (link).
  7. "Gjennomslag for forskning på morgendagens teknologier," Khrono, December 14, 2020 (link).
  8. Meeting of Krishna Agarwal and Mr. Henrik Asheim (Minister of Research and Education, Norway) during his visit to UiT on 10th August 2021, highlighted in several popular media (NTB, Radio Nordkapp, Khrono, UiT).
  9. Popular article "Are Labels Okay? – a message to biologists from DLN researchers," published by Digital Life Norway, posted on several popular media (DLN, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook).
  10. A very active blog site hosting WP videos and popular science articles (https://www.organvision.eu/news/).
  11. Organization of "Physics Experiments," a series of experiments related to light and optics addressed to high-school students (link).
  12. Invited talk at the event "Campus Physis," addressed to high-school students with an interest in physics. Title: "Més enllà del que veuen els ulls: el microscopi òptic de súper-resolució" (link).
  13. Division of Cardiothoracic and Respiratory Medicine (UNN) has engaged two user representatives in the division's research advisory board. Team Birgisdottir met the user representatives on 22nd August 2023, briefly explaining their research.
  14. Featured in The Print, "AI Impact Summit Session Highlights Responsible AI Innovation in Healthcare," 23rd February 2026 (link).
  15. Agarwal, UiT's representative for Indo-Norwegian academic cooperation, presented EU projects of Agarwal and Prasad to India's Ambassador to Norway, Dr. Acquino Vimal, on 7th Nov 2023 (Bio-AI Lab, Ambassador post).
  16. Christos Alexandropoulos was invited by the radio station UP FM of the University of Patras as part of the 24-hour marathon for World Radio Day.
  17. MABIT funding news on Digital Life Norway (DLN), 2025 (link).
  18. "Exploring the Invisible: Our New Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Fibrosis-Related Diseases," DLN, 2024 (DLN, 3dnanoscopy).
  19. Popular article "OrganVision: Little Organs MAGNIFIED!" posted on the OrganVision website (link).

Follow up funding applications

Funds secured

  1. Illuminating new paths in heart failure therapy (HeartVision), EIC Pathfinder 2025, €4M. Agarwal, Duocastella, Bhattacharya, Birgisdottir, and Weinberger.
  2. Switching cardiomyocyte activity to uncover biology and treat disease (CARDIOSWITCH), ERC Advanced Grant, €2.5M. Weinberger.
  3. "Cyto-Motility and Cyto-Plasticity in Vitro Live-Cell Assay" (0.5 MNOK), Research Council of Norway Qualification Grant (link).
  4. UiT supplementary funding for REACH Silicon Valley, 2026, for Cymoplive (0.2 MNOK).
  5. B. Ghosh, "Cancer Drug Screening with Cyto-Motility and Plasticity Live-Cell Assay," UiT-funded Innovation Position Grant, 2025 (2.1 MNOK).
  6. Biswajoy Ghosh and Komal Agarwal, "MarGel – Cold Water Fish-based Hydrogels for In-Vitro Drug Screening" – partnered with Lerøy – Inventor & PI, MABIT-funded Research Grant, 2025 (1 MNOK).
  7. Biswajoy Ghosh, "Live-Cell Assay track fabrication," UiT Talent Main Project Grant, 2024 (0.5 MNOK).
  8. Biswajoy Ghosh, "Rapid prototyping of 3D cell motility assay – Cymoplive kits for scaling-up manufacture," UiT Supplementary Grant, 2024 (80 kNOK).
  9. Biswajoy Ghosh, "Cytomotility & Cytoplasticity in vitro live cell assay (Cymoplive)," Inventor & PI, RCN Qualification, 2023 (0.5 MNOK).
  10. Biswajoy Ghosh, "Testing AI-based 3D synthetic reconstructions of cell organelles of 2D real microscopy images," DLN Cross Project, 2022 (30 kNOK).
  11. Farhad Niknam, "Computational adaptive optics," €10k, UiT's innovation funding program, pilot project fund.
  12. Farhad Niknam, "Computational adaptive optics," €50k, Research Council of Norway Qualification 2023.
  13. Farhad Niknam, "Computational adaptive optics," €485k, Research Council of Norway Proof-of-Concept 2025.
  14. Punnakkal and Prasad, "Generative AI for biological cells," Oracle for Research Program, US$100k.
  15. Birgisdottir, "Mitochondrial transfer for cardiac rescue," a PhD position funded by Nasjonalforeningen of Norway, 2025 (3 MNOK).
  16. Duocastella's innovation SynPix led to private fundraising. BeAble Capital offered a pre-seed investment of €170k to form a spin-off and cover a 2-year runway.
  17. Bhattacharya, Cross-Network pump-priming grant: Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK), €8k.

Funds applied/planned

  1. Biswajoy Ghosh, "Cymoplive EIC Transition." Received a score of 13.17 (threshold for interview was 13.3), placing it in the top 20% of proposals among all 611 submitted. (€2.5M)
  2. Biswajoy Ghosh, "Decoding the Navigational Intelligence of Cancer Cells (MetaStatIQ)," ERC Starting Grant. Scored B in 2025 deadline. Planned for resubmission in 2027. (€1.5M)
  3. Prasad, Agarwal, Birgisdottir, "General-purpose artificial intelligence microscopes for knowledge discovery in cellular mechanisms (Cell Story)," ERC Synergy. Scored B in 2024 deadline. Planned for resubmission to the 2027 deadline. (€10M)
  4. Agarwal, Birgisdottir, Prasad, Duocastella + 3 PIs not from OrganVision, "Bioscopes for Life: The Center of Bioscopy, where light becomes insight (Bioscopy)." Applied for Center of Excellence call (SFF VI) of Research Council of Norway. Screened at the last stage (due to fund limit). €15M. Planned for resubmission as SFI in 2028.
  5. Bhattacharya, "Increased Longevity and Temporal Resolution in Super Resolution Imaging," planned submission to EPSRC (UK) in 2026. £1.5M.
  6. Bhattacharya, "Multimodal Label-free Chemical Imaging on 'Steroids': An AI-Powered pipeline for digital reconstruction of brain pathology," planned submission to EPSRC (UK) in 2026. £1.5M.
  7. Farhad Niknam, "Real-time 3D deconvolution," submitted to Research Council of Norway Qualification call. 0.5 MNOK.
  8. Farhad Niknam, "Real-time 3D deconvolution," submitted to Research Council of Norway Proof-of-Concept call. 5 MNOK.
  9. Agarwal, Qin and Zhong, "From days to minutes: making non-linear inverse scattering in optical microscopes a reality." Planned submission to Research Council of Norway TopForsk in 2027. 12 MNOK.
  10. Prasad, Agarwal, "MacroMicroAI – microscopy big data analysis workflow creation." Planned submission to Research Council of Norway Verification in 2028. 5 MNOK.