Alumni

Philippe Bonnet was a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He was 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 the University of Copenhagen and from 2009 at ITU). …

Daniel was an Associate Professor at ITU, Copenhagen, and a 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 was interested in artistic, analytic, explorative, …

Björn Þór Jónsson was an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. His research interests included 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 …

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

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 …

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 was a postdoc at the 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 …

Jonathan Fürst was a Postdoctoral 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 worked with software controllable micro grids, sensor networks, IoT …

Aaron was 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 …

Ties was 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 …

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

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 December …

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

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

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

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

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

Bethany was 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 State …

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

Nynne Just Christoffersen was an external lecturer. She is a full-stack web developer who, while teaching at ITU, focused mostly on React and had prior experience with Ruby on Rails. She has been an active member in many communities in Copenhagen. Particularly those that aim at mentoring and …

Lottie managed ITU’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems.