People


This list shows all of the current members of DASYA. For a list of previous members see the alumni.


Associate Professor

Pınar Tözün is an Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen. Before ITU, she was a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Prior to joining IBM, she received her PhD from EPFL. Her research focuses on performance characterization of data-intensive workloads, and scalability an ...

Associate Professor

Veronika Cheplygina is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her background is in machine learning in general, and based on medical images in particular. She is also thinking about how we do research, and addressing the inefficiencies/inequalities involved. Before ITU, she was f ...

Associate Professor

Zoi Kaoudi is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). Her current research focus is on (i) leveraging machine learning techniques for data-intensive systems, (ii) improving the performance and ease of use of machine learning systems, and (i ...

Associate Professor

Martin is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Before joining ITU, he was a Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake, where he worked on security, metadata management, and performance optimizations. He also founded and established Snowflake’s engineering site in Berlin, G ...

Associate Professor

Jorge Quiané was an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). He unexpectedly passed away in May of 2023. His research focus was on the broad areas of (i) big data management, (ii) cross-platform data processing, and (iii) scalable data infrastr ...

Professor

Philippe Bonnet is professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is a Marie Curie fellow with a track record of successful research projects under DARPA, NSF (while a research associate at Cornell University), EU and Danish funding (first at U.Copenhagen and since 2009 at ITU). Philippe is an exp ...

Assistant Professor

Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). Her research focuses on developing data management tools that improve the efficiency of modern data analytics and data science workloads, with an emphasis on spatial worklo ...

Assistant Professor

Maria is an assistant professor at The IT University of Copenhagen. Before joining ITU, she studied at The University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science. Her research focus is on designing scalable machine learn ...

Postdoctoral Researcher

Amelia is a postdoctoral researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her research interests are in the broad areas of medical imaging and deep learning. She has experience developing algorithms to deal with label noise, limited amounts of data and class-imbalance, problems that are fairly common ...

Postdoctoral Researcher

Xiao Li currently is a postdoctoral researcher at ITU working on querying optimization for database system. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD from department of people and technology, Roskilde University. His PhD study focus on data quality and data cleaning, especially concerning IoT data.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Headline Yucheng Lu earned his BS degree in optical information science and technology from Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2016. Subsequently, he attained his Ph.D. in multimedia engineering from Dongguk University in 2022. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a research professor at Korea University. In ...

Researcher

Julian Priest is a researcher in the DASYA Lab and project scientist for the Discosat project. Representative of ITU in the Discosat project. Co-ordination and mentoring of Discosat students. Satellite development. Ground station management. DASYA space activities co-ordination. Research areas inc ...

Lab Manager

Sebastian Büttrich is the Dasya Lab Manager, responsible for Managing the Dasya (Data Intensive Systems and Applications) Lab Coordinating tasks between Researchers and the IT department Enabling experimental digital technology – from acquisition to maintenance System and application development Do ...

HPC System Administrator

Lottie manages ITUs High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems.

PhD Fellow

Ehsan holds a masters degree in Computer Engineering - Computer Architecture from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His primary field of interest is Computer Architecture, narrowly parallel computing systems and energy-efficient designs and their application in Heterogeneous Systems ...

PhD Fellow

Ties is a postdoctoral researcher working on Resource-Aware Machine Learning. Before joining ITU, he studied at the Radboud University Nijmegen (NL), where he graduated with a Masters degree in Data Science with a traineeship focussed on Massively-Parallel acceleration of Machine Learning (via graph ...

PhD Fellow

Kasper is a PhD Student working on predictive maintenance using high-frequency measurements on machinery. He is particulary interested in the interaction between machine, measurement system, data storage and modelling. Understanding and utilising this infrastructure properly will enable us to use ma ...

PhD Fellow

Niclas Hedam is a PhD Fellow working on computational storage in the Data-intensive Systems and Applications group. He is particularly interested in the intersection between information security and data systems, aiming to guarantee the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of modern data sys ...

PhD Fellow

Morten is working as a PhD fellow with Philippe Bonnet as a supervisor. His PhD project pertains to the verification of eBPF programs which are supposed to execute on the computational unit of future computational storage devices. He completed his Master’s in Computer Science with a specialization i ...

PhD Fellow

Dovile is a PhD Fellow working together with Veronika Cheplygina on the project ‘CATS - Choosing a Transfer Source for Medical Image Classification’.

PhD Fellow

Robert Bayer is a PhD Fellow at DASYA lab under supervision of Pınar Tözün Pınar Tözün His research focuses on the area of machine learning on resorce-constrained hardware (TinyML and EdgeML). Specifically, he focuses on the resource management, task colocation, and performance analysis challenges o ...

The DASYA Group, At the Pioeneer Center for AI, May 2024