2024

Doctoral candidate Marieke van Otterdijk at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis How to Make Robots Intuitive Decision Makers? – Developing Intuitive Cognition for Robots by Studying Humans for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Seyed Mojtaba Karbasi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis ZRob; Exploring Rhythmic Patterns and Emergent Behaviour in Robotic Drumming for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Carolyn Kavita Tauro at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Chasing Freedom: ICTs as Dilemmas and Capabilities for Persons Who Use Drugs Seeking Social Harm Reduction for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ole Magnus Holter at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Semantic Parsing of Textual Requirements for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Nicholas Thomas Walker at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Dialogue Management with Conversational Knowledge Graphs for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ping-Han Hsieh at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Developing Computational Methods to Improve Gene Regulatory Network Inference for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Maria Hernández Mesa at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis A Computational Study on the Influence of Structural Organization of Receptors on Calcium Signaling in Excitable Cells for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Adel Baselizadeh at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Advancing Safety and Privacy in Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring Learning-Based Control and Multi-Modal Sensing Approach for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Aizaz Sharif at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Testing the Safety and Robustness of Autonomous Cars in a Multi-Agent Environment for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anastasiia Grishina at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Software Engineering and its Automation with Large Language Models for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ghadi Al Hajj at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Improving the Generalization of Machine Learning Models through the Incorporation of Domain Priors and Constraints for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andre Büttner at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Security of Evolving Authentication Technologies for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Thomas Kleine Büning at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Learning in the Presence of Cooperative, Adversarial and Strategic Agents for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Gabriella d'Albenzio at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Advances in Computer-Assisted Liver Surgery Planning: From Volumetric Segmentation to Virtual Resection Planning for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Yuanwei Qu at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Knowledge Modelling for Digital Geology for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Atle Eskeland Rimehaug at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Computational modeling of electric brain signals across scales: From the spikes of single neurons to the local field potentials of brain areas for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ratan Bahadur Thapa at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Elevating Standards: Mapping and Querying Relational Data on the Semantic Web for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ragnhild Bassøe Gundersen at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Liminal Digital Innovation: Understanding digital innovation during a crisis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tollef Jahren at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Deep learning for detecting valvular events and suppressing reverberations in cardiac ultrasound for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Rebekka Soma at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Does a Robot Lawnmower Know Anything About Grass? A Phenomenological Gaze on Human-Robot Interactions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Daniel Leunbach at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Venturing into the unknown: Navigating fundamental uncertainty in contemporary entrepreneurship practice and research for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Chao Tan at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis A Language Model-Based Approach to Generate Dynamic Synthetic Test Data for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Alireza Khakpour at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Visual Analytics Modeling For Decision-Support Systems for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hannah Schupfer at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Legitimacy challenges during sustainability transitions: How fossil fuel incumbents respond to the rising sustainability pressures for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.