Rohit Agarwal

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 Bio-AI Lab

 Department of Computer Science

 UiT The Arctic University of Norway

 Tromsø, Norway

I am an AI Researcher at the Bio-AI Lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. My Ph.D. (2025) explored Scalable Online Deep Learning for Streaming Data with Variable Feature Spaces, a problem I frame as Haphazard Inputs, where models must adapt as the number and type of available features change unpredictably over time.

Currently, I investigate hallucinations in large language models, studying when and why they fabricate facts. My broader research interests include:

  • Haphazard Inputs / Varying Feature Spaces
  • Scalable Online Deep Learning
  • Large Language Models
  • Time Series · Computer Vision · NLP

Alongside my research, I authored Cloud Computing for Everyone (BPB Online, 2025), an accessible guide from foundational cloud concepts to advanced practices, which received the Golden Wings Award 2025.

Outside the lab, I can usually be found on a volleyball court, out on a trail, or in the water. The Norwegian Arctic landscape makes for a pretty compelling reason to stay active.

News

Jun 15, 2026 Organizing the Bioscopy Conference 2026 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, June 15–17, 2026 — bridging Life Sciences and Advanced Imaging.
Apr 18, 2026 Organizing the 1st Workshop on AI in Fertility Science on April 18, 2026.
Jan 17, 2026 Honored with the Golden Wings Award 2025 by Wings Publication International for the book Cloud Computing for Everyone.
Jan 16, 2026 Featured on a podcast — discussed the motivation and journey behind writing Cloud Computing for Everyone in a conversation with the CEO of Wings Publication International.
Dec 22, 2025 Organized the CHOMPS Workshop at AACL, Dec 2025.
Nov 12, 2025 Successfully defended my PhD dissertation titled Scalable Online Deep Learning for Streaming Data with Variable Feature Spaces at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Nov 06, 2025 Featured in Hindustan Times as one of the 10 Authors You Need to Read Before 2025 Ends.
Jun 30, 2025 Started as an AI Researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Bio-AI Lab), working on hallucinations in LLMs.
May 31, 2025 Paper accepted at IJCNN 2025Haphazard Inputs as Images in Online Learning. Presenting doctoral dissertation at IEEE IJCNN Conference with a travel grant of $1000.
Apr 05, 2025 Paper published at ICASSP 2025Hedging Is Not All You Need: A Simple Baseline for Online Learning Under Haphazard Inputs.
Jan 14, 2025 Book published — Cloud Computing for Everyone (BPB Online, 2025).

Journey

Jul 2025 — Present
AI Researcher
Bio-AI Lab · UiT The Arctic University of Norway
🏆 Golden Wings Award CHOMPS Workshop @ AACL Bioscopy Conference 2026 Hindustan Times Feature
Visiting Researcher · NUS, Singapore · Aug–Nov 2023
Jun 2021 — Nov 2025
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
UiT The Arctic University of Norway · Tromsø, Norway
📖 Cloud Computing for Everyone $1k Travel Grant – IJCNN DLN Mini-MBA Runner-up Arctic LLM Workshop
Aug 2020 — May 2021
Software Engineer
Adobe · Bangalore, India
☁️ Cloud Operations Kubernetes & AWS
Python · Terraform · Ansible CI/CD Pipelines
Research Intern · UiT, Norway · Feb–June 2020
ML Intern · Adobe Bangalore, India · May–July 2019
Data Science Intern · NIBMG Kalyani, India · May–July 2018
Jul 2015 — Jul 2020
Integrated M.Tech. in Mathematics & Computing
IIT (ISM) Dhanbad · Jharkhand, India
🥇 Gold Medalist MCM & Director Scholarship Science Academies Fellowship AIR 5017 – IIT JEE Advanced