Ira Assent

Ira Assent is a professor and head of the Data-Intensive Systems research group in the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University. She also heads the Big Data Analysis research at the DIGIT Aarhus University Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data and Data Analytics. Prior to joining Aarhus University, she was with Aalborg University and her alma mater, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Iras research interests are methods, algorithms and technology in machine learning, data mining and data management, with a special focus on efficiency and scalability to Big Data.