https://dasya.itu.dk/tags/people/ Recent content in people on DASYA Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © DASYA, IT University of Copenhagen Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/philippebonnet/ Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/philippebonnet/ 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). Philippe was an experimental computer scientist with a background in database management. For twenty years, he explored the design, implementation and evaluation of database systems in the context of successive generations of computer classes in particular wireless sensor networks and cloud computing. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/pinartozun/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/pinartozun/ 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 and efficiency of data-intensive systems on modern hardware. She received a Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention in 2016. During her PhD, she also spent a summer in Oracle Labs (Redwood Shores, CA) as an intern. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/bjornthorjonsson/ Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/bjornthorjonsson/ 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 University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999. Before joining ITU in 2017, he was at Reykjavík University, Iceland, since fall of 2000, where he served as Dean from January 2010 to January 2014. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/zsoltistvan/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/zsoltistvan/ 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 Research in Zurich. He has a PhD degree from the Systems Group at ETH Zurich. His dissertation was awarded the prestigious ETH Medal and received the Honourable Mention for the EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/jorgequiane/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/jorgequiane/ 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 infrastructures. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from INRIA (Nantes University), France in 2008. Jorge was a system-oriented computer scientist with a background in data management. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/zoikaoudi/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/zoikaoudi/ 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 use of machine learning systems, and (iii) advance knowledge graph embeddings with ontologies and logical reasoning. Before joining ITU, she has held positions in various places around the world. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/martinhentschel/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/martinhentschel/ 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, Germany. Prior to Snowflake, Martin worked at Microsoft on the Bing search engine. He studied computer science at TU Dresden, Germany, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, earning his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from ETH Zurich. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/elenizacharatou/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/elenizacharatou/ 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 (HPI) and the University of Potsdam. 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 workloads. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/mariaastefanoaei/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/mariaastefanoaei/ 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 learning algorithms for data-intensive applications related to sustainability, particularly renewable energy generation and human mobility. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/omarkhan/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/omarkhan/ 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 large multimedia datasets. He did his BSc, MSc, and PhD at ITU, whereafter he did a Postdoc in Reykjavik University in Iceland. You can find more info about him on his personal website: oskhan. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/sebastianbuettrich/ Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/sebastianbuettrich/ Sebastian Büttrich, PhD Assistant Teaching Professor Research Lab Manager PI DISCO (Danish Students’s Cubesat Project) Managing the Dasya (Data Intensive Systems and Applications) Lab Enabling experimental digital technology – from acquisition to maintenance Lab team management Focus areas include: IoT and Sensors Physical computing (Wireless) Networks, networks at large, extreme networking IT and Sustainable Energy Open and Free Software Satellite and balloon networking Resource-aware and constrained ML Designing and managing the course “Internet of Things”, short info: Aside from his work at the IT University, Sebastian is working with The Network Startup Resource Center, https://nsrc. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/imanelghandour/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/imanelghandour/ 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 PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research interests were in the area of database systems, with a focus on query management in parallel and distributed computing platforms. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/xiaoli/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/xiaoli/ Xiao Li currently is a postdoctoral researcher at ITU working on query optimization for database system. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD from department of people and technology, Roskilde University. His PhD study focused on data quality and data cleaning, especially concerning IoT data. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/jonathanfurst/ Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/jonathanfurst/ 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 systems, Building Management Systems (BMS) and energy management in non residential buildings. During 2014 he spent 6 months as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley in David Culler’s Software Defined Buildings (SDB) group. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/julianpriest/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/julianpriest/ 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 include: Satellite IT. Culturisation of Space. Art science. Aside from his work at ITU, Julian has a background in community wireless networking and a long running international media arts practice that includes the recent launch of a satellite as an artwork. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/aaronduane/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/aaronduane/ 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 data in a virtual environment. Prior to this, he worked on numerous commercialisation projects funded by Enterprise Ireland (EI) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), where he led the design and development of application prototypes that addressed a broad range of target domains, such as reminiscence therapy, sentiment analysis, image recognition in fashion, and chronic illness. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/ehsanyousefzadeh/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/ehsanyousefzadeh/ Ehsan is a Postdoctoral Researcher, working under the supervision of Prof. Pınar Tözün. His research focuses on resource-aware data systems for machine learning, particularly deep learning training workloads. He develops mechanisms to improve hardware and system efficiency, aiming to make AI more sustainable and scalable. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Architecture from Sharif University of Technology. His primary research interests include computer systems and architecture, with a focus on GPUs, parallel computing, energy-efficient designs, and heterogeneous systems. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/tiesrobroek/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/tiesrobroek/ 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 graphics cards) at the University of Copenhagen. He then obtained a PhD in fall of 2024 at ITU, under the supervision of Pınar Tözün. His research activities focused on improving accessibility and sustainability of Deep Learning, with special emphasis on data loading. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/ameliajimenezsanchez/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/ameliajimenezsanchez/ 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 common in medical datasets. She worked on the project “Making Metadata Count”. Before joining ITU, she received a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Granada, a Master of Science in Biomedical Computing from the Technical University of Munich and a Ph. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/yuchenglu/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/yuchenglu/ 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 2023, he joined PURRlab as a postdoctoral researcher. His primary areas of focus were transfer learning, image processing, and medical image analysis. Find more info at Github. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/innaermilova/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/innaermilova/ Inna Ermilova is an administrator of high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at IT University of Copenhagen. Her duties also include the following: * user training on internal and external resources; * allocating time on UCloud; * participating in the evaluation for the CPU/GPU-time on LUMI-C and LUMI-G; * writing the documentation; * participating in the evaluation of resources for Portugal. Inna Ermilova has a background in natural sciences with a PhD degree in physical chemistry from Stockholm’s University, Sweden. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alexanderpedersen/ Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alexanderpedersen/ Alexander is a PhD Fellow working with Prof. Martin Hentschel on research regarding open data formats and metadata. He optained his Master’s degree in computer science at ITU, specialising in algorithms. Shortly before joining the DASYA group he worked as a research assistant in the algorithms group of ITU. Here, he worked with Prof. Martin Aumüller on ANN-search. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/nielsoerbaek/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/nielsoerbaek/ 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 IoT devices. Niels’ PhD was part of DIREC and done in collaboration with Energinet. It was supervised by Philippe. Niels also contributed to DASYAs Data Blog. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/jensbirkandersen/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/jensbirkandersen/ Jens is a PhD Industrial Researcher in System Architecture at Samsung Semiconductor and an Industrial PhD Fellow under the supervision of Pınar Tözün at ITU. His research focuses on the intersection of computer systems and machine learning, with particular interest in storage hierarchies and I/O paths in deep learning, as well as data movement and protocols such as CXL. He holds a BSc in Software Development from ITU and an MSc in Computer Science from UCPH. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/niclashedam/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/niclashedam/ 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 systems and computational storage. His PhD research focused on offloading eBPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) code to PCI and NVMe devices. He designed and implemented Delilah, a novel Computational Storage Processor (CSP) built to experiment with an eBPF-based offload in the context of large-scale data pipelines. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/juripetersen/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/juripetersen/ Juri Petersen is a PhD Fellow in the Data-intensive Systems and Applications (DASYA) group at the IT University of Copenhagen. His research lies at the intersection of query optimization and machine learning. You can find more information on his ITU profile. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/kasperberthelsen/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/kasperberthelsen/ 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 machinery efficiently, cutting costs and reducing waste. Kasper’s PhD was part of DIREC and done in collaboration with Novo Nordisk. He was supervised by Philippe Bonnet. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/dovilejuodelyte/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/dovilejuodelyte/ Dovile was a PhD Fellow working together with Veronika Cheplygina on the project ‘CATS - Choosing a Transfer Source for Medical Image Classification’. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/mortentychsenclausen/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/mortentychsenclausen/ 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 programming language theory and parallel hardware performance in the summer of 2021, and had an interest in formal mathematics, functional programming and parallel computation. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/bethanychamberlain/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/bethanychamberlain/ 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 University, where she graduated with a Masters degree in Research Methods in Psychology and a Bachelors degree in Psychology, respectively. Her other interests included mental health (improving it but also educating about it), traveling (in non-pandemic times), and baking. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/robertbayer/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/robertbayer/ 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 of these machine learning systems. Before starting his Ph.D., Robert also worked at the DASYA lab as a research assistant, where he worked on similar topics. You can find more info about Robert at his personal website: https://robertbayer. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/jonvoigtt%C3%B8ttrup/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/jonvoigtt%C3%B8ttrup/ 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. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/danielcermak-sassenrath/ Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/danielcermak-sassenrath/ 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, critical and subversive approaches to and practices of play, focusing on interaction in context, the (technically mediated) interaction between people, and the interaction between people and (technical) systems. He ran the University’s monthly workshop series about electronics, mechanics, alchemy, interface devices and dangerous things. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/nynnejustchristoffersen/ Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/nynnejustchristoffersen/ 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 encouraging diversity and newcomers to the field. She has taught programming classes through initiatives such as Rails Girls Copenhagen (which she started in 2017) and Hack Your Future. https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/lottiegreenwood/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/people/alumni/lottiegreenwood/ Lottie managed ITU’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/robertpromotion2/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/robertpromotion2/ Following his excellent performance last month, Robert has earned himself another promotion! He has now become a PhD fellow at DASYA, and if this keeps up, he may even become head of Computer Science before the end of the year. https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/robertpromotion/ Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/robertpromotion/ Robert has joined Dasya full-time, going from student assistant to research assistant! Rumours say he may even become a PhD student at Dasya in August. More to follow at a later date. https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/climatechangeaigrant/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/climatechangeaigrant/ Maria Astefanoaei secures Innovation Grant for Climate Change AI Maria Astefanoaei has been awarded an innovation grant of $145.000 from Climate Change AI for the project: Towards greener last-mile operations: Supporting cargo-bike logistics through optimized routing of multi-modal urban delivery fleets Read more about the grants here https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/newpeoplef2021/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://dasya.itu.dk/posts/newpeoplef2021/ Welcome to our Four New Members! During the fall of 2021 our research group have been expanded by four new excellent members: Lottie Greenwood, HPC System Administrator Ties Robroek, PhD Fellow Ehsan Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab, PhD Fellow Julian Priest, Researcher with the DISCO project Welcome!