Pınar Tözün

Pınar Tözün is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) since 2018, where she leads the Data, Systems, and Robotics section and the Resource-Aware Data Systems (RAD) team. Her research focuses on optimizing modern hardware (processors and storage) for data-intensive systems, with recent emphasis on resource-aware machine learning, hardware-constrained data processing, and advancements in SSD/CXL technologies.

Before ITU, she was a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center (2015–2018), contributing to the IBM Db2 Event Store development. She holds a PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, 2014), where she worked on the Shore-MT storage manager under Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Koç University (Turkey, 2009), advised by Prof. Serdar Taşıran.

Her research interests span

• Resource-aware machine learning,
• Data management systems,
• Edge computing,
• High-performance storage,
• and sustainable AI practices.

Her work bridges hardware and software optimization, addressing challenges in distributed systems and IoT environments. She actively contributes to academic communities through workshops like DBTest and diversity initiatives in database conferences.