Sarunas Girdzijauskas

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DOCENT

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolanhttps://www.kth.se/profile/sarunasg

Works for

DIVISION OF SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Telephone

+46 8 790 41 75

Address

KISTAGÅNGEN 16

E-mail

sarunasg@kth.se

Room

2437

Researcher ID

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About me

I'm an associate professor at the Software and Computer Systems (SCS) division, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of theRoyal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden as well as a senior researcher at RISE-SICS. I am currently leading Graph Analytics and network Learning group (GALE) at SCS. Before joining SCS I was an assistant professor at the Network and Systems Engineering department (2012-2016). I got my PhD from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in March 2009. My research focuses on Information Network Analytics, Decentralized Machine Learning, Data Mining, distributed systems & P2P overlays, and Blockchain technologies. I was the coordinator of „iSocial“, Marie Curie ITN project on decentralized online social networks (2012-2017) as well as Activity Leader of a number of EIT Digital Innovation Activities (in 2014, 2016, and 2017). From 2016 to 2019 I was running annual EIT Digital Summer School on Big Data Analytics.

I am currently the coordinator of H2020 Marie Curie European Training Network "RAIS" (14 Phd fellows, 13 partner organisations from Europe and USA).

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

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

Current Phd Students

Edvin Listo Zec (Main Supervisor, 2021-)
Yifei Jin (Assistant Supervisor, 2020-)
Filip Cornell(Main Supervisor, 2020-)
Debaditya Roy (Main Supervisor, 2020-)
Vangjush Komini (Main Supervisor, 2020-)
Ahmed Emad Samy Youssif (Main Supervisor, 2019-)
Susanna Pozzoli (Main Supervisor, 2019-)
Lodovico Giaretta (Main Supervisor, 2019-)
Hugo Werner (Assistant Supervisor, 2020-)
Amir Akhavanrahnama (Assistant Supervisor, 2018-)
Martin Isaksson (Assistant Supervisor, 2018-)

Postdocs

Dr.Zekarias Tilahun Kefato (2019-)

Graduated PhD students

Dr. Stefanos Antaris (Main Supervisor, 2022, thesis)
Dr. Sana Imtiaz (Assistant Supervisor, 2021,thesis)
Dr. Nuno Apolonia (Main Supervisor, 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.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

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)