On the 17th of December, Huishi Yin defended her PhD on “Using a Kano-like Model to Facilitate Open Innovation in Requirements Engineering” which combines a well-known approach to enhance satisfaction of software users, the Kano model, with modern approaches to gather information from online data sources to facilitate open innovation in the context of software […]

On the 29th of August, Sulev Reisberg defended his PhD on “Developing computational solutions for personalized medicine” which is an important step towards clinical application of this new era of medicine. Each of us has a unique 3-billion-elements-long genetic code called DNA. It defines, how our bodies are built and how they work. It also […]

On the 26th of August, Tõnis Tasa defended his PhD on “Bioinformatics approaches in personalized pharmacotherapy”. Tõnis’s thesis focuses on addressing problems in multiple sub-fields of personalised medicine and aims to illustrate that data for precision medicine emerges from different sources. Conventional therapeutic medicine tackles pathologies with chemical, surgical or radiation-based interventions. Clinicians currently use […]

On the 26th of June, Elena Sügis defended her PhD on “Integration methods for heterogeneous biological data” in which she addresses the question of how to combine and analyze diverse biological data originating from various biological experiments and databases.  Importance of biological data integrationA fast advance in biotechnological innovation and decreasing production costs have led […]

On the 14th of June, Vijayachitra Modhukur defended her PhD on “Profiling of DNA methylation patterns as biomarkers of human disease” in which she addresses the question of how DNA methylation patterns can be used as biomarker candidates as abnormal methylation patterns are studied for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of disease outcome as well […]

On the 12th of June, Toomas Krips defended his PhD on „Improving performance of secure real-number operations“ in which he describes methods on how to improve real-number computations on secure computations. In the following blog post, Toomas tells a story on secure computations, real numbers and his doctoral thesis. There are two main components of […]

On the 6th of June 2019, the paper “D2IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event Intervals” won the best paper award in the 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’19), which was written by Ahmed Awad, Riccardo Tommasini, Mahmoud Kamel, Emanuele Della Valle and Sherif Sakr. CAiSE is one of the oldest and top […]

On June 7, Mohan Liyanage, who is an assistant in the Chair of Distributed Systems defended his doctoral thesis “A framework for mobile web of things” in which he presents an energy efficient lightweight mobile web service provisioning framework for mobile sensing utilizing the protocols that were designed for the constrained Internet of Things environment. […]

On the 26th of May, Irene Teinemaa defended her PhD on “Predictive and prescriptive monitoring of business process outcomes“, in which she addresses the question on how to train, evaluate and use predictive models for outcome-oriented predictive process monitoring. Every day, we are involved in various business processes. For instance, when booking a hotel, applying […]

On the 15th of March, our doctoral student Yauhen Yakimenka defended his PhD thesis on the intersection of two different fields of computer science: error-correction codes and compressed sensing. Most of the information on the internet is now transmitted over fibre optics. It’s extremely fast, but it comes with a price: now the erros also […]

Institute of Computer Science PhD student Ilya Verenich defended his thesis on February 11. Here is an overview of his work.  Context. Modern enterprise systems collect a lot of data about the execution of the business processes they support. The widespread availability of such data in companies, combined with advances in machine learning, have led […]

Ehsan Ebrahimi is a doctoral student at the Chair of Security and Theoretical Computer Science. He defended his doctoral thesis thesis “Post-Quantum Security in the Present of Superposition Queries” on January 21, supervised by Professor Dominique Unruh. Here is an overview of his work. Quantum Computing. Have you heard of Quantum Computers? Scientists and engineers are […]