Sarunas Girdzijauskas

I am a professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) as well as a senior researcher at RISE. I lead the Graph Analytics and Network Learning group (GALE) at the SCS division. I got my PhD from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2009. I was appointed as a Docent in Computer Science at KTH in 2016. My research focuses on Information Network Analytics, Decentralized Machine Learning, Data Mining, distributed systems & P2P overlays, and Blockchain technologies. I was the coordinator of H2020 Marie Curie European Training Network "RAIS" (2018-2023) as well as the coordinator of Marie Curie ITN "iSocial" (2012-2017). I was also Activity Leader of a number of EIT Digital Innovation Activities (in 2014, 2016, and 2017). From 2016 to 2019 I was running the annual EIT Digital Summer School on Big Data Analytics.

From 2019 to 2022, I was the Program Director for the doctoral program "Information and Communication Technology" at EECS. Currently, I serve as the Director of Third-Cycle Education (FA) at EECS.

I have supervised/examined more than 60 master theses at KTH.

Current PhD Students

• Adam Orucu (Main Supervisor, 2024-)
• Rémi Bourgerie (Assistant Supervisor, 2023-)
• Yifei Jin (Assistant Supervisor, 2020-)
• Filip Cornell (Main Supervisor, 2020-)
• Vangjush Komini (Main Supervisor, 2020-)
• Ahmed Emad Samy Youssif (Main Supervisor, 2019-)
• Susanna Pozzoli (Main Supervisor, 2019-)
• Martin Isaksson (Assistant Supervisor, 2018-)

Graduated PhD students

• Dr. Amir Akhavanrahnama (Assistant Supervisor, 2025, thesis)
• Dr. Edvin Listo Zec (Main Supervisor, 2025, thesis)
• Dr. Debaditya Roy (Main Supervisor, 2024, thesis)
• Dr. Lodovico Giaretta (Main Supervisor, 2023, thesis)
• Dr. Stefanos Antaris (Main Supervisor, 2022, thesis)
• Dr. Sana Imtiaz (Assistant Supervisor, 2021,thesis)
• Dr. Nuno Apolonia (Main Supervisor at KTH, 2018, Joint doctorate with UPC Barcelona, thesis)
• Dr. Anis Nasir (Main Supervisor, 2018,thesis)
• Dr. Amira Soliman (Main Supervisor, 2018,thesis)
• Dr. Fatemeh Rahimian (Assistant Supervisor, 2014,thesis)

Past Postdocs

• Dr. Zekarias Tilahun Kefato (2019-2022)
• Dr. Leila Bahri (funded by theSRA ICT TNG forAccountable Data Governance using Blockchain Technology project, 2017-2019)
• Dr. Amira Soliman (funded by RISE AI, 2019)
• Dr. Fatemeh Rahimian (Funded by EIT ICT Labs Innovation Activity “Large Scale Graph Processing for Big Linked Data Analytics”, 2014-2015)

Visiting Graduate Students

• Ivan Kralj, University of Zagreb (2024 Apr -May)
• Thomas Marchioro, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece (2022 March-May)
• Sofia Yfantidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2021 May-Jul)
• Ahmed Lekssays, University of Insubria (2020 Nov – 2021 March)
• Zekarias Tilahun Kefato, University of Trento (2017 Sep - Dec)
• Nasrullah Sheikh, University of Trento (2017 Sep - Dec)
• Stefanos Antaris, University of Cyprus (2015 Apr-Jun)
• Laleh Naeimeh, University of Insubria (2014 Oct-Dec)
• Leila Bahri, University of Insubria (2014 Aug - Oct)

Visiting Postdocs

• Dr. Andrés García García, IBM Haifa Labs (2015 April - June)
• Dr.Chen Chen, IBM Haifa Labs (2015 Feb - April)
• Dr. Mikael Högqvist, Peerialism AB (2014 May - July)