Rohit Agarwal
I am an Applied Scientist at Nattugla, building AI systems that monitor elderly patients and alert healthcare professionals in real time. My work sits at the intersection of computer vision, efficient deep learning, and edge AI — designing models that are accurate enough to be clinically meaningful and lean enough to run on resource-constrained devices in care environments.
I hold a Ph.D. (2025) from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where I 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.
My research interests span:
- Computer vision for healthcare & activity monitoring
- Online learning & haphazard inputs
- Large language models
I also authored Cloud Computing for Everyone (BPB Online, 2025), which received the Golden Wings Award 2025.
Outside work, I can usually be found on a volleyball court, out on a trail, or in the water.
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. |
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| May 07, 2026 | Paper accepted at BioNLP, ACL 2026 — Evaluating LLM-as-a-Judge for Medical Term Simplification. |
| May 03, 2026 | Started as an Applied Scientist at Nattugla, building AI solutions for elderly patient monitoring — combining computer vision, efficient deep learning, and edge AI to support real-time care and healthcare professional alerting. |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Serving as editor of the AI in Fertility Science special issue at Nordic Machine Intelligence. |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Organizing the 1st Workshop on AI in Fertility Science on April 18, 2026. |
| Apr 12, 2026 | Awarded a funding of 75,000 NOK from the Research Council of Norway for the AI4Fertility Workshop. |
| 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 2025 — Haphazard 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 2025 — Hedging 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). |