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). …

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 …

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 …

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

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, …

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 …

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 …

Omar S. Khan is an Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on multimedia retrieval, multimedia analytics, high-dimensional indexing, and databases. He is particularly interested in developing scalable systems that facilitate effective search and exploration of …