Sarunas Girdzijauskas
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About me
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)
Courses
Advanced course in Data-Intensive Computing (FID3019), examiner
Data Mining (ID2222), examiner, teacher
Data Mining (FID3016), teacher
Data Mining, Basic Course (ID2211), examiner, course responsible, teacher
Degree Project in Computer Engineering, First Cycle (II142X), examiner
Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, specialising in ICT Innovation, Second Cycle (EA256X), examiner
Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, specialising in ICT Innovation, Second Cycle (EA258X), examiner
Degree Project in Electronics and Computer Engineering, First Cycle (IL142X), examiner
Degree Project in Information and Communication Technology, First Cycle (II143X), examiner
Degree Project in Information and Communication Technology, First Cycle (IA150X), examiner
Degree Project in Information and Communication Technology, Second Cycle (IA250X), examiner