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Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems

Ongoing/completed Bachelor's/Master's theses
Title	Type	Supervisor
Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Architectures for Anomaly Detection	Masterarbeit	Prof. J. Marius Zöllner, M.Sc. Svetlana Pavlitska
Collaborative Perception for Autonomous Vehicles in Adverse Weather Using 4D Radar-Camera Fusion	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner
From CAD to Robotic Assembly Planning: A Dual-Model Verification Framework Using Large Language and Vision Models	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Marius Zöllner, Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis
Designing Real-Time Passenger Interfaces for Autonomous Vehicles: Enhancing Trust Through User-Centric Displays	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner, Helen Schneider
Enhancing Traffic Scenario Simulation with Heterogeneous Spatio-Temporal Graph Generation	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner, Ferdinand Mütsch
Uncertainty-aware Exploration in Reinforcement Learning: Leveraging Expert Advice for Autonomous Driving	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner, Ahmed Abouelazm
Efficient 2.5D Object Detection Using Ground-Plane Representations	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner, Nikolai Polley
Reformulating Latent Action Learning: A Varitional Approach to Learning from Stochastic Video Demonstrations	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner, Marcus Fechner
From Videos to Dreams: Mastering Complex Domains with Latent Action Pre-Training	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Marcus Fechner
Outlier Detection for Error Recognition in High-Definition Maps for Autonomous Driving	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Stefan Orf
Transformerbasierte Fusion von Luft- und Bodensensordaten zur Erstellung von HD-Kartenmaterial	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Rupert Polley
Application of Mixtures of Experts for Uncertainty Estimation in Computer Vision Tasks	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Svetlana Pavlitska
Probabilistic Analysis of Object Parameter Deviations in Visual Perception Systems for Autonomous Vehicles	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Stefan Orf
Scalable Generation of Heterogeneous Spatio-Temporal Graphs: Bridging Graph Neural Networks and Traffic Scenario Generation	Masterarbeit	M. Sc Ferdinand Mütsch, Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner
Constrained Model-Agnostic Meta Learning	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Mohammd Karam Daaboul
Time-based EEG-Data for Sentiment Analysis on the Example of Passengers in Autonomous Vehicles	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Helen Schneider
Passagierreaktionen im Kontext des autonomen Fahrens: Situationen die Positive o. Negative Reaktionen hervorrufen	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Helen Schneider
Exploring the Attainment of Accuracy and Model Properties within Stringent Real-Time Inference Constraints for Vehicle Motion Prediction	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Daniel Grimm Externer Partner: Bosch
Messung des Grades des Arousal mithilfe des Zirkumplexmodells des Affekts anhand des Herzschlags bei Passagieren autonomer Fahrzeuge	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner; Helen Schneider

Business Information Systems

Open theses
Title	Subject	Supervisor	Person in Charge
DIPLOMARBEIT	User preferences and adaptivity in the design of artificial personality in conversational agents	Alexander Dregger, Andreas Oberweis
AI-supported automated comparison of dynamic websites		Kruse, Nadja
Entwurf und Entwicklung eines LLM-gestützten Gründerassistenzsystems		Rybinski, Fabian; Frister, Demian
Prozessmodelle als Prompting-Strategie		Rybinski, Fabian
Auswirkung der Prozessrepräsentationsform auf die Interpretation durch Large Language Models		Rybinski, Fabian
Designing Honesty in Conversational Agents		Alexander Dregger
Use of Large Language Models for automated evaluation and support in the digital modeling tool KEA-Mod		Kruse, Nadja; Ullrich, Meike
External thesis on the topic of process mining in cooperation with Mehrwerk
Verbesserung des Routings mittels LLM		Alexandra Wins
Scalability and Energy Efficiency of DAG vs. Blockchain in Legal Evidence Storage		Ullrich, Meike und Malekzadeh Mahani, Marzieh
Distributed Ledger Technology for Tamper-Proof Evidence	DLT, Blockchain, Consumer Rights (Verbraucherschutz)	Ullrich, Meike und Malekzadeh Mahani, Marzieh
Designing Service Orientation in Artificial Personalities for Conversational Agents	Designing Service Orientation in Artificial Personalities for Conversational Agents	Alexander Dregger
Design of a personality dimension for conversational agents	Design of a personality dimension for conversational agents	Alexander Dregger
Analyse des Fahrverhaltens der Autofahrer auf Basis von echten Fahrdaten in Kooperation mit Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation		Alexandra Wins
Vergleich und Verbesserung der Routingqualität unter Nutzung offener Daten in Kooperation mit Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation		Alexandra Wins
Kalibrierung von Routingdiensten für Elektrofahrzeuge in Kooperation mit Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation		Alexandra Wins
E-Assessment für die grafische Modellierung	Modellierung; Petri-Netze, BPMN, EPK, ER, UML	Meike Ullrich

Cooperative Autonomous Systems

Open theses
Title	Type	Supervisor
Online HD-Mapping for Sidewalk Humanoid Robots	Master's thesis	Lei Wan
Optimizing Multi-Flow Congestion Control for COTS 5G Devices via Machine Learning (Industry-Co-Supervised at Bosch)	Master's thesis	Min Hee Jo
Targetless Spatial-Temporal Calibration of LiDAR-Camera Systems	Master's thesis	Lei Wan
Tyre-Road Noise Prediction Using Multi-Sensor Data: Exploring ML, Neural Networks, and CNNs	Bachelor's/Master's Thesis	Jiawen Meng
Development of a Pedestrian Detection and Tracking System Using LiDAR for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Traffic Environments.	Master's thesis	John Pravin Arockiasamy
Development of a Simulation Environment Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the Artery Framework for V2X Communications.	Master's thesis	John Pravin Arockiasamy
Multi-modal crash prediction based on V2X and visual information	Master's thesis	Manuel Bied
Efficient decentralized learning based on V2X for autonomous driving	Master's thesis	Jianxin Zhao
Developing a robot-pedestrian interaction protocol in mixed reality	Master's thesis	Manuel Bied

Critical Information Infrastructures

Further information can be found here on the CII website.

Information Service Engineering

Open Theses Topics
Title	Typ	Supervisor
Ontologies for Materials Mechanical Testing	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Dr. Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi
Benchmarking Framework for Neuro-Symbolic Ontology Reasoners	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Harald Sack
Knowledge-Guided Discovery in the Chemotion Knowledge Graph	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, M.Sc. Ebrahim Norouzi, Dr. Jörg Waitelonis, Dr. Anna Jacyszyn
Ontology Development for Sports Data with the MO\|RE Repository	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, M.Sc. Sarah Rebecca Ondraszek, Dr. Jörg Waitelonis, Dr. Anna Jacyszyn
Information Extraction and Knowledge Graph Integration of Historical Theatre Programs	Masterarbeit	Tabea Tietz, Ebrahim Norouzi, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack
Analyse the Impact of Text Representation Methods for Iconclass Label Recommendation	Bachelorarbeit	Etienne Posthumus, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack
Modelling the content of the Illustrated Iconclass as a Graph Database	Masterarbeit	Etienne Posthumus, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack
Stamp Detection and Segmentation in Historical Documents	Masterarbeit	Mahsa Vafaie, Sven Hertling
Tagging ROI in images to Notation using Annotations	Masterarbeit

Ongoing/completed Bachelor's/Master's theses
Title	Type	Supervisor
Machine Learning-Based ICU Stay Prediction	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Dr.-Ing. Genet Asefa Gesese, Dr. Anna Jacyszyn, M.Sc. Silvia Becker
Machine Learning-Based ICU Stay Prediction	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Dr.-Ing. Genet Asefa Gesese, Dr. Anna Jacyszyn, M.Sc. Silvia Becker
Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering	Masterarbeit	Dr.-Ing. Genet Asefa Gesese, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johann Marius Zöllner
Semantic Aggregation and Labeling of the Patent Information Space	Masterarbeit
Image2Type: Entity Type Prediction via Image Analysis	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Prof. J. Marius Zöllner, Dr. Mehwish Alam, Russa Biswas
Quality Assured Information Extraction from Historical Address Books for Knowledge Graph Construction	Masterarbeit
Concept-level Sentiment Analysis with SenticNet and Word Embeddings	Masterarbeit
Words Are Not Enough! Short Text Classification Using Words and Entities	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, M.Sc. Rima Türker
Semantic Exploration of Text Documents with Multi-Faceted Metadata Employing Word Embeddings: The Patent Landscaping Use Case	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Ralf H. Reussner, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Dr. Hidir Aras
Predicting Price Residuals in Online Car Marketplaces with Natural Language Processing		Maximilian Blanck, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Dr. Maria Koutraki, M.Sc. Marcel Kurovski, Dr. Florian Wilhelm
Schema Inference on Wikidata	Masterarbeit	Lucas Werkmeister, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Dr.Koutraki
The Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Content Analysis in Sociology	Masterarbeit	Tabea Tietz, Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Alexander Knoth
Analyzing Bias in a Knowledge-Aware News Recommendation System	Bachelorarbeit	Ralf Reussner, Harald Sack, Mehwish Alam

Security • Usability • Society

Open Theses Topics
Titel	Typ	Betreuung
Usability improvements in verifiable internet voting - Effect on trust and risk perception	Bachelorarbeit/Masterarbeit	Tobias Hilt
Interviewstudy: Factors influencing perceived trustworthiness and risk perception in verifiable internet voting	Masterarbeit	Tobias Hilt
Effect of feedback on phishing sensitivity	Bachelorarbeit	Dr. Benjamin Berens

Ongoing/completed Bachelor's/Master's theses
Title	Year	Type	Supervisor	Ongoing/completed
Passkeys at KIT: Analysis of Barriers and Development of Awareness Material	2025	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer Fabian Ballreich	Ongoing
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure – What's the role of data protection officers?	2025	Bachelorarbeit	Anne Hennig	ongoing
Analysis of Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure processes in companies	2025	Masterarbeit	Anne Hennig	ongoing
Understanding User Strategies for Detecting S/MIME Email Signature Spoofing Attacks in Outlook: A Usability Perspective	2025	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer Fabian Ballreich	Completed
Trust in Voting Machines after the 2024 US Presidential Election	2025	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Tobias Hilt	Completed
Explainable AI – eine rechtliche und technische Einordnung	2025	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Franziska Boehm Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer	Completed
E-Voting in India: A historical overview and current trends	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Tobias Hilt	Completed
E-Voting in Indien: Ein historischer Überblick und aktuelle Entwicklungen	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Tobias Hilt	Abgeschlossen
Eye Tracking für die Evaluation des PassSec+ Tools	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer Maxime Veit	Completed
Fear Appeals in Cybersecurity: How effective are they really?	2024	Masterarbeit	Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Anne Hennig	Completed
Replikationsstudie: Usable Security - A Systematic Literature Review	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Melanie Volkamer, Anne Hennig	Completed
Usability analysis of mail clients with regard to S/MIME	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Fabian Ballreich	Completed
Empirical Study: The Effect of a Link-Centered Educational Video for the Hearing Impaired on the Subject of Phishing	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Dr. Benjamin Berens, Fabian Ballreich	Completed
Evaluation of Usable Pin Pad Interfaces for Users with Rheumatoid Arthritis	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Mattia Mossano	Completed
TORPEDO - Defending Against Phishing E-mail Attacks	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Melanie Volkamer, Benjamin Berens	Completed
Risikowahrnehmung von individueller Verifizierbarkeit bei Online Wahlen	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Tobias Hilt	Completed
Replikationsstudie zur Nutzerstudie aus "Nothing Comes for Free: How Much Usability Can You Sacrifice for Security?"	2024	Bachelorarbeit	Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Tobias Hilt	Completed

Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy

Open Theses Topics
Title	Type	Supervisor
Design of Domain-Specific Ontologies for Explainable Simulation-Based Digital Twins	Master Thesis	Meryem Mahmoud Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Development of an Agent-Based Model for Rail Transport Punctuality: A Proof-of-Concept Study	Master Thesis	Hui Min Lee Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Proxel-Based Digital Twin for Reliability Assessment of Energy Systems through Data-Driven Fault Trees	Master Thesis	Omar Mostafa Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
RoadProEs: Estimating Road Surface Characteristics Using Attention-Based Deep Learning and Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion	Master Thesis	Dr. Mustafa Demetgül Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Review of Digital Twins for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Smart Manufacturing Systems	Master Thesis	Atieh Khodadadi Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Ontologies from Natural Language Expert Knowledge	Master Thesis	Michelle Jungmann Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Extraction and Formalization of Relevant Information from Natural Language Expert Knowledge	Master Thesis	Michelle Jungmann Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Digital Twin (DT) Benchmarking	Master Thesis	Manuel Götz Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Accelerometer Data Classification using Machine Learning	Master Thesis	Manuel Götz Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Predictive Analytics for Energy Consumption Profiles Using Digital Twins in Manufacturing Systems	Master Thesis	Atieh Khodadadi Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar
Energy-oriented Digital Twins for Energy Consumption Monitoring in Manufacturing Systems	Master Thesis	Atieh Khodadadi Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar

Ongoing/completed Bachelor's/Master's theses
Title	Type	Supervisor	Progress
Machine Learning based Human Activity Recognition in Labor-intensive Manufacturing Systems	Master Thesis	Manuel Götz Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
A Data-driven framework for modelling and visualizing functions of software-based vehicles	Bachelor Thesis	Manuel Götz Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
Predictive maintenance of the electromechanical drive in electric vehicles: conditioning of rolling	Bachelor Thesis	Dr. Mustafa Demetgül Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
RoadProEs: Estimating Road Surface Characteristics Using Attention-Based Deep Learning and Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion	Master Thesis	Dr. Mustafa Demetgül Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
Impact of Renewable Energy Generation on Grid Performance	Master Thesis	Omar Mostafa Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
Integration of Renewable Energy Sources in Manufacturing Using Digital Twins	Master Thesis	Atieh Khodadadi Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar Prof. Thomas Leibfried	Ongoing
Development and Implementation of a System for the Automated Processing of Customer Requirements: A Case Study with the Ford Sales Team of the Bosch Mobility Aftermarket	Master Thesis	Hui Min Lee Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence Application for Tire-Road Noise Prediction	Master Thesis	Dr. Mustafa Demetgül Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
Navigating Trade-Offs in Supply Chains: Strategic Pathways towards Viability	Bachelor Thesis	Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Ongoing
RoadAcoVision: Deep Multi-Modal Learning for Road Type Classification Using Sound and Image	Master Thesis	Dr. Mustafa Demetgül Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Completed
Data Analytics for Predictive Maintenance in Wind Power Systems	Bachelor Thesis	Omar Mostafa Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Completed
Data Analytics for Predictive Maintenance in PV Power Systems	Bachelor Thesis	Omar Mostafa Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar	Completed
Increasing Transparency in the supply chain while protecting the interests of suppliers – a case study using Lufthansa Technik as an example	Master Thesis	Sanja Lazarova-Molnar Hui Min Lee	Completed
A Methodological Approach to Predict Cancer Treatment Outcomes Using RNA-Seq Data and Explainable AI	Bachelor Thesis	Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar Atieh Khodadadi	Completed
Development of Data Requirements and Architecture of a Digital Twin for Manufacturing Systems with Collaborative Robots	Master Thesis	Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar Manuel Götz	Completed

Web Science

Further information can be found here on the Web Science website.