PhD Graduates

Advisor

#	Defense	Name	Thesis Title
1	2007	Esther Kaufmann	Talking to the Semantic Web
2	2008	Peter Vorburger	Catching the Drift – When Regimes Change over Time
3	2008	Christoph Kiefer	Non-Deductive Reasoning for the Semantic Web and Software Analysis
4	2010	Jiwen Li	Automated Verfication of Small Molecule Structure with 1D Proton NMR Spectrum
5	2010	Jonas Luell	Employee Fraud Detection under real World Conditions
6	2010	Katharina Reinecke	Culturally Adaptive User Interfaces
7	2010	Adrian Bachmann	Why should we care about data quality in software engineering?
8	2011	Thomas Scharrenbach	End-User Assisted Ontology Evolution in Uncertain Domains
9	2011	Jonas Tappolet	Managing Temporal Graph Data While Preserving Semantics
10	2012	Amancio Bouza	Hypothesis-Based Collaborative Filtering
11	2012	Jayalath Ekanayake	Improving Reliability of Defect Prediction Models: from Temporal Reasoning and Machine Learning Perspective
12	2013	Floarea Serban	Toward Effective Support for Data Mining using Intelligent Discovery Assistance
13	2015	Philip Stutz	Scalable Graph Processing with SIGNAL/COLLECT
14	2015	Cosmin Basca	Federated SPARQL Query Processing. Reconciling Diversity, Flexibility and Performance on the Web of Data
15	2015	Lorenz Fischer	Efficient Distributed Stream Processing: Optimization Approaches and Applications.
16	2017	Patrick de Boer	Crowd Process Design: How to coordinate crowds to solve complex problems
17	2017	Shen Gao	Efficient Processing and Reasoning of Semantic Streams
18	2018	Michel Feldman	Crowdsourcing Data Analysis: Empowering non-experts to conduct data analysis
19	2018	Tobias Grubenmann	Monetization strategies for the Web of Data
20	2018	Bibek Paudel	Improving recommendation diversity and identifying cultural biases for personalized ranking in large networks
21	2019	Daniel Spicar	Eﬃcient Spectral Link Prediction on Graphs Approximation of Graph Algorithms via Coarse-Graining
22	2019	Marc Novel	Conxtextualized Search for Nearness
23	2021	Romana Pernisch	Mind the Change, Bridge the Gap: Investigating the Impact of Ontology Evolution on Materialisations and Embeddings
24	2022	Suzanne Tolmeijer	The Right Thing To Do? Artificial Intelligence for Ethical Decision Making
25	2022	Matthias Baumgartner	How to Compare Apples to Oranges Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources with Representation Learning
26	2022	Martin Sterchi	Computational Approaches to Epidemic Prevention on Contact Networks
27	2024	Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy	Towards AI-Assisted Data Science Development: Decoding, Visualising, and Enhancing Human-AI Collaboration for Data Science Workflows in Practice
28	2024	Florian Ruosch	Connecting the Dots: Toward the Argument Web of Science
29	2024	Narges Ashena	Empowering Users in Privacy: Insights and Strategies for Informed Decision-Making
30	2025	Ruijie Wang	Toward Efficient, Explainable, and Generative Knowledge Graph Question Answering
31	2025	Lucien Heitz	Normative Approaches to Diversity-Optimized Recommendations of Political News