Theses and Practica

The following pages show open topics for practica, bachelor and master theses, sorted by application fields. We will be happy to provide information on further open topics upon request. Topics can be completed either in English or German.

Open Topics

02/17/2025 | Natural Language Processing

Exploring and Evaluating Various Domain Adaptation Techniques

Domain adaptation involves modifying a model, originally trained on general data, to perform effectively in more specialized fields such as medicine, politics, law or instruction following. more

02/10/2025 | Natural Language Processing

Studying The Effectiveness Of Mamba

The rise of ChatGPT has introduced a wide range of AI-powered systems. However, despite the continuous advancements, the underlying Transformer architecture still faces limitations. With this thesis, you will explore different… more

01/30/2025 | Security

Agent-based Machine Learning for Offensive and Defensive Cyber Security

Automatisierte Agenten bieten ein enormes Potenzial für offensive und defensive Cybersecurity. Von der Informationsbeschaffung über Angriffe bis hin zur Erkennung und Abwehr von Angriffen können sie eine Vielzahl komplexer… more

01/30/2025 | Security

Knowledge-based Machine Learning for Proactive Cyber Threat Modeling and Detection Using Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs

Die Erkennung und Modellierung von Cyberangriffspfaden erfordert eine automatisierte Analyse von Bedrohungen. Frameworks wie MITRE ATT&CK oder D3FEND bieten umfangreiche Wissensbasen, werden jedoch oft isoliert genutzt. more

01/29/2025 | Biological&Medical Data

Hierarchical Clustering of scRNA-seq Data using TreeVAE

Identifying rare or novel cell populations, such as tumor cells, is essential for biomedical research. This work applies TreeVAE, a variational autoencoder tailored for hierarchical clustering of scRNA-seq data, to reveal… more

01/29/2025 | Physics & Deep Learning, Ecosystems

Enhancing Regional Climate Projections with Deep Learning

Global climate models play a vital role in predicting future climate conditions, such as temperature or precipitation. However, their coarse spatial resolution (typically 50–100 km) limits their ability to capture regional climate… more

01/22/2025 | Ecosystems, Biological&Medical Data

Time Series Clustering for Smart Beehives

Smart beehives collect sensor data that reflects developments of and events in the bee colony, such as hive growth, successful nectar collection and beekeeper interventions. None come with labels. Therefore, we use different… more

01/22/2025 | Natural Language Processing

Klassifikation von Romanen anhand von Zeitreihen

Romane gehören zu den Textarten, die trotz riesiger Fortschritte in den letzten Jahren die NLP immer noch vor Herausforderungen stellen: Selbst die neuesten Modelle sind nicht in der Lage, komplette Romantexte am Stück einzulesen… more

01/22/2025 | Physics & Deep Learning, Ecosystems

Spherical Embeddings or Spherical Fourier Neural Operators

Spherical Harmonics by Inigo.quilez, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spherical_Harmonics.png)

Although our planet is a sphere and therefor all weather and climate processes operate on sphere, Deep Learning Weather Models very commonly operate on different rectangular projections of the sphere. This introduces increasingly… more

11/13/2024 | Physics & Deep Learning, Ecosystems

Meteorological Downscaling Using Remote Sensing Data

Global numerical climate models project meteorological quantities such as temperature, humidity, pressure, etc. decades into the future under the assumption of different emission scenarios. However, due to computational… more

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