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Selected topics I have supervised at HHU Düsseldorf, newest first.

Note that thesis supervision is paused until April 2027.

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2026

• Semantische Klassifikation von Zitationstypen (Semantic classification of citation types) — BA
• Papertrail Social Graph of Science: LLM data augmentation — BA
• Regressionsmodelle für Eingliederungshilfeleistungen (Regression models for integration-assistance benefits) — BA
• Extracting Useful Question-Answer Pairs from Examination Regulations — BA
• Korrelation von politischer Repräsentation und Kommunalwahlergebnissen (Correlation between political representation and local election results) — BA

2025

• 2D-Sichtbarkeit anhand von Gebäudekonturen aus Openstreetmaps (2D visibility based on building contours from OpenStreetMap) — BA
• Autokorrektur - Inpainting auf mobilen Endgeräten (AutoKorrektur – inpainting on mobile devices) — BA
• Local Semantic Search on the Web utilizing Transformers.js — BA · hAInrich, live on the HeiCAD pages
• Ergänzung von Wikipedia mit übersetzten Textstellen (Supplementing Wikipedia with translated passages) — BA
• Datenextraktion aus Steuerbescheiden (Data extraction from tax notices) — BA
• Adaptive correction of temporal shifts in time series data for reinforcement learning — BA
• Recommending contribution opportunities for a theorem database (π-base) — BA
• Refining citations in a topology database (π-base) with a language model — BA
• Robotic process automation for evaluating student applications — BA
• On-Device Speaker Diarization in Android — BA

2024

• Model Performance and Efficiency on Music Datasets — BA
• Extraktion von Autor-Institutionen-Graphen aus dem ArXiV (Extracting author–institution graphs from arXiv) — BA
• Reverse engineering text prompts from AI-generated images — BA
• Autokorrektur: Automatisierte Objektersetzung in Fotos (AutoKorrektur: automated object replacement in photos) — BA
• Estimating Gender Bias in BERT following Jentzsch and Turan — BA
• Wikipedia Übersetzung Ergänzen (Supplementing the Wikipedia translation) — BA
• Neuronale Relationsextraktion aus Wikipedia (Neural relation extraction from Wikipedia) — BA
• Comparing Word Embeddings for Chinese Characters — BA
• Word Vector Embeddings for Job Recommender — BA
• Explainable AI for Object Classification — MA
• Erweiterungsvorschläge für die automatische explorative Datenanalyse (Extending automatic exploratory data analysis) — BA

2023

• Synthesizer Parameter Estimation — BA
• Gemischte Gausssche Modele zur Sprecher*innenerkennung (Mixed Gaussian models for speaker recognition) — BA
• Klassifikation mathematischer Fachgebiete mit großen Sprachmodellen (Classification of mathematical subject areas using large language models) — BA
• Semantische Klassifikation von Preprints (Semantic classification of preprints) — BA
• Das Dimpled Manifold Model als Erklärung für die Existenz und die Eigenschaften von Adversarial Examples (The dimpled manifold model as an explanation for the existence and properties of adversarial examples) — BA
• Replication of Token Merging for Fast Stable Diffusion — BA
• Changepoint Detection in PyPy Compiler Benchmark Logs — BA
• Context-Aware CLI Autocompletion — BA
• Automatische Auswahl von strittigen Textstellen anhand von Wikipedia-Diskussionen (Automatic selection of disputed passages based on Wikipedia discussions) — BA
• Semantic search on visited websites — BA
• Multi-Label Emotion Classification on German Texts — BA
• Analyse von Verkehrsaufkommen im Einzelhandel für unterschiedliche Raumtypen (Analysis of retail foot traffic for different types of space) — BA
• Clustering of climate tipping points in space and time — MA
• Vorhersage der Wärmeleitfähigkeit von Knochenäquivalent aus Temperaturkurven (Predicting the thermal conductivity of bone equivalent from temperature curves) — BA
• Analyse des Trends und Verhaltens von Energie-Zeitreihen: Ein unüberwachter Ansatz (Analysis of the trend and behaviour of energy time series: an unsupervised approach) — BA
• Clustering of Time Series Data for anomaly detection — MA
• Incremental learning of tree ensembles from tabular data — MA
• AI-based Violence Detection in Videos using Pose Estimation — MA
• Comparing emotion classifiers for text classification, after Samothrakis and Fasli — BA
• Variation in the Number of Clusters in Spam Detection Algorithms, a Special Case of Text Classification — BA