PhD Graduates

Advisor

Defense	Name	Thesis Title
2007	Esther Kaufmann	Talking to the Semantic Web
2008	Peter Vorburger	Catching the Drift – When Regimes Change over Time
2008	Christoph Kiefer	Non-Deductive Reasoning for the Semantic Web and Software Analysis
2010	Jiwen Li	Automated Verfication of Small Molecule Structure with 1D Proton NMR Spectrum
2010	Jonas Luell	Employee Fraud Detection under real World Conditions
2010	Katharina Reinecke	Culturally Adaptive User Interfaces
2010	Adrian Bachmann	Why should we care about data quality in software engineering?
2011	Thomas Scharrenbach	End-User Assisted Ontology Evolution in Uncertain Domains
2011	Jonas Tappolet	Managing Temporal Graph Data While Preserving Semantics
2012	Amancio Bouza	Hypothesis-Based Collaborative Filtering
2012	Jayalath Ekanayake	Improving Reliability of Defect Prediction Models: from Temporal Reasoning and Machine Learning Perspective
2013	Floarea Serban	Toward Effective Support for Data Mining using Intelligent Discovery Assistance
2015	Philip Stutz	Scalable Graph Processing with SIGNAL/COLLECT
2015	Cosmin Basca	Federated SPARQL Query Processing. Reconciling Diversity, Flexibility and Performance on the Web of Data
2015	Lorenz Fischer	Efficient Distributed Stream Processing: Optimization Approaches and Applications.
2017	Patrick de Boer	Crowd Process Design: How to coordinate crowds to solve complex problems
2017	Shen Gao	Efficient Processing and Reasoning of Semantic Streams
2018	Michel Feldman	Crowdsourcing Data Analysis: Empowering non-experts to conduct data analysis
2018	Tobias Grubenmann	Monetization strategies for the Web of Data
2018	Bibek Paudel	Improving recommendation diversity and identifying cultural biases for personalized ranking in large networks
2019	Daniel Spicar	Eﬃcient Spectral Link Prediction on Graphs Approximation of Graph Algorithms via Coarse-Graining
2019	Marc Novel	Conxtextualized Search for Nearness
2021	Romana Pernisch	Mind the Change, Bridge the Gap: Investigating the Impact of Ontology Evolution on Materialisations and Embeddings
2022	Suzanne Tolmeijer	The Right Thing To Do? Artificial Intelligence for Ethical Decision Making
2022	Matthias Baumgartner	How to Compare Apples to Oranges Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources with Representation Learning
2022	Martin Sterchi	Computational Approaches to Epidemic Prevention on Contact Networks
2024	Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy	Towards AI-Assisted Data Science Development: Decoding, Visualising, and Enhancing Human-AI Collaboration for Data Science Workflows in Practice
2024	Florian Ruosch	Connecting the Dots: Toward the Argument Web of Science
2024	Narges Ashena	Empowering Users in Privacy: Insights and Strategies for Informed Decision-Making

Defense

Name

Thesis Title

2007

Esther Kaufmann

Talking to the Semantic Web

2008

Peter Vorburger

Catching the Drift – When Regimes Change over Time

2008

Christoph Kiefer

Non-Deductive Reasoning for the Semantic Web and Software Analysis