Ioana O. Bercea

Ioana O. Bercea is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Division of Theoretical Computer Science. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland (advised by Samir Khuller), a Master's from the same institution (advised by Aravind Srinivasan), and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago.

Her research focuses on Data Structures (dictionaries, Bloom filters), Randomized Algorithms (hashing, clustering), and Computational Geometry (Traveling Salesman Problem). Her recent publications emphasize scalable data structures, dynamic filters, and algorithmic efficiency, with applications in database systems and high-dimensional optimization.

Awards & Honors:

• Best Artifact of ACM SIGMOD 2023
• Future Digileader (Digital Futures, 2023)
• VR Starting Grant (2024)

She advises PhD student Jonas Østergaard Klausen (University of Copenhagen) and collaborates with research groups including BARC (Copenhagen) and Digital Futures. Her VR Starting Grant funds the project "DataTech: Techniques for scalable data storage and analysis."