Alumni

From May 2022 to February 2025, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou was an Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). In March 2025, she transitioned to a new role as Assistant Professor and Head of the Spatial Analytics and Large-Scale Data Processing Group at the Hasso Plattner Institute ( ...

Iman Elghandour is a PostDoc at IT University of Copenhagen. Before joining ITU, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering at Alexandria University (Egypt) and she also spent a year at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Iman obtained her PhD fro ...

Daniel is Associate Professor at the ITU, Copenhagen, and member of the Center for Computer Games Research (game.itu.dk) and the Pervasive Interaction Technology Lab (PitLab). Daniel writes, composes, codes, builds, performs and plays. He is interested in artistic, analytic, explorative, critical an ...

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 ...

Jonathan Fürst is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). He received his PhD and M.Sc. in Computer Science from ITU and his B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from University of Aalen (HTW Aalen). He has been working with software controllable micro grids, sensor networks ...

Björn Þór Jónsson is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. His research interests include scalability and efficiency of multimedia analytics and multimedia retrieval, in particular on novel computing architectures. Björn completed his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Un ...

Niels is a PhD Student working with energy systems and large-scale time series data. He is interested in applying data science techniques to adapt our power grids to a low-emission future. He is also interested in sensor networks that collect energy data, playing around with wireless networks and Io ...

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 ...

Nynne Just Chrstiophersen is extern lector. She is a fullstack web developer currently focusing mostly on React, but with prior experience in Ruby on Rails. Over the last couple of years, she has been an active member in many communities in Copenhagen. Particularly those that aim at mentoring and en ...

Aaron is a postdoctoral researcher who was awarded the Marie Curie European Fellowship in 2020 to perform research into human-computer interaction and virtual reality in the context of large-scale data analytics. Aaron completed his PhD in 2019 which was focused on visual access to human-sensor data ...

Zsolt István is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen working in the area of distributed data management and specialized hardware accelerators. Earlier, he has been an Assistant Research Professor at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid and a visiting PostDoc researcher at IBM ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Jon Tøttrup is a research assistant at DASYA lab. Jon is a computer scientist working with Resource-aware Machine Learning on SoC devices, alongside Robert Bayer and Pinar Tözün. He is interested in working with efficient machine learning on new SoC platforms.

Bethany is a PhD Fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen working together with Veronika Cheplygina and Dovile Juodelyte on the project ‘CATS - Choosing a Transfer Source for Medical Image Classification’. Before joining ITU, she studied at the University of Strathclyde and Bemidji Stat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...