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Our group has several open research projects that are suitable for a master (M), bachelor (B) or semester (S) theses. In addition, we have group projects, and labs for distributed systems majors; projects marked as B or S are usually also suitable for labs or group projects.

If you have an idea for a project that is not on our list but falls into our research area, we would be excited to hear about it.

Available Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssigned
Homo Moralis Plays a GameM/SDamien Berriaud,
Andrei Constantinescu
available
Automated Foosball CommentarySTill Aczel,
Joël Mathys
available
Bring Your Own AlgorithmM/SAndrei Constantinescuavailable
Communication Complexity in Unreliable NetworksM/SMarc Dufay,
Mose Mizrahi Erbes
available
Detecting Blood Vessel Networks from 3D ScansSAndreas Plesner,
Joël Mathys
available
Distributed Graph Problems with Malicious ActorsM/SAnton Paramonov,
Andrei Constantinescu
available
Eliciting Internal Reward Models in LLMsM/SSamuel Daunceyavailable
Emergent Architectures: Neuro-symbolic AIMGiacomo Camposampieroavailable
Exceptional Students for ML in Audio/MusicB/M/SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
available
Generalized Turing Test for LLMsSSamuel Dauncey,
Frédéric Berdoz
available
Karma EconomicsM/SDamien Berriaudavailable
Topics in Computational Voting and Game TheoryM/SAndrei Constantinescuavailable
Vertical Test Time Compute in TransformersM/SSamuel Dauncey,
Frédéric Berdoz
available
View-Specific Video CompressionM/STill Aczelavailable

Current Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssignedStudent(s)
Eigenvector-Masked AutoencodersBTill Aczel,
Andreas Plesner
FS 25Anja Buchmann
Aggregation in Team GamesMAndrei Constantinescu,
Borna Simic
FS 25Hadjipanayiotou Georgia
AlphaZero Meets ARCMAndreas Plesner,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 25David Jenny
ARC Literature ReviewSAndreas PlesnerFS 25Severin Bratus
Asynchronous Graph Neural Network ModelsBFlorian GrötschlaFS 25Tim Krappel
Audio UpmixingMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 25Hyun-Min Chang
BeatmakerSLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 25Karim Galal
Bounds on the Coding Gap for BroadcastSAnton Paramonov,
Andrei Constantinescu
FS 25Natalie Suter
Context-Aware In- Car Recommender System: Predicting UI Interactions (User Needs) with Driving ContextMAndreas PlesnerFS 25Andri Furrer
Contrastive DecodingMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25René Cáky
Creating the Next Decentralized ComputerBAnton Paramonov,
Yann Vonlanthen
FS 25Cedric Schwyter
Data AttributionBLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25Kaan Bayraktar
Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks: Neuron Collapse Through a Neural Architecture Search PerspectiveSAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 25Shakir Yousefi
Designing the Next ARC ChallengeMSaku Peltonen,
Andreas Plesner
FS 25August Rønberg
DiffLogic - Recurrent NetworksSTill Aczel,
Andreas Plesner
FS 25Simon Bührer
Effectiveness of Multi-Scale Aggregation for Adversarial RobustnessBAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 25Emerson Leonardo Azevedo Aguiar
Empirical Analysis of Blockchain Payment SystemsBSaku Peltonen,
Lioba Heimbach
FS 25Daniel Hunziker
Enhancing AlphaZero with Neural Message PassingSSamuel Dauncey,
Saku Peltonen
FS 25Pacurar Andrei-Horia
Evaluating AI-Generated Image Detection Across Resolution and ComplexityBTill Aczel,
Andreas Plesner
FS 25Lorenzo Alessandro Vettor
Evaluating and Controlling the Political Bias of LLMsMFrédéric BerdozFS 25Johanna Dciofalo
Exploring adversarial conceptsSAndreas PlesnerFS 25Nastasia Morel
Fair Playing SequencesSDamien Berriaud,
Andrei Constantinescu
FS 25Julia Hütte
Fake Singing Voice DetectionMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 25Ahmet Solak
Faster DiffLogicSAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 25Joshua Durrant
Graph AutoencoderMFlorian Grötschla,
Saku Peltonen
FS 25Anisha Mohamed Sahabdeen
Image-to-PromptBFrédéric Berdoz,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 25Asonitis Antonios-Spyridon
Impact of Training Data on Adversarial ExamplesBAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 25Marco Zimmerli
Improving convergence of DiffLogicSTill Aczel,
Andreas Plesner
FS 25Lukas Rüttgers
Increasing Expressiveness of DiffLogicSAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 25Sven Brändle
Interpreting the Reversal Curse of LLMsMSamuel DaunceyFS 25Giovan Battista Landolina
IQ of VLMs – can they really reason?BAndreas Plesner,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25Elias Hug
Karma EconomicsSDamien BerriaudFS 25Cécile Michel
LLM Sampling MethodsBFrédéric Berdoz,
Andreas Plesner
FS 25Hugo Posada Saiz
Mesh Optimization and Neural Closure Modeling Using Graph Neural NetworksMFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
FS 25Bálint László Szarvas
MEV on SolanaMLioba HeimbachFS 25Albin Mamuti
ML for FashionMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Till Aczel
FS 25Yannick Hauri
More Efficient Transformers with high-level multi-token predictionBFrédéric Berdoz,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 25Peer Rheinboldt
Multimodal Graph-Language ModelsSFlorian Grötschla,
Saku Peltonen
FS 25Simon Schlude
NeRF to evaluate RobustnessMAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 25Samuel Räber
Neural Amp modellingSFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 25Longxiang Jiao
Ranking Movies with LLMsBLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25Tilman Sieber
Reasoning Benchmark for LLMsBBenjamin Estermann,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 25Fabian Farestam
RecopmressionBTill AczelFS 25Elif Özsoy
Robust Multi-lingual Speaker DiarizationSLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 25Constantin Pinkl
RSTAR Meets ARCBAndreas Plesner,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 25Pierre Roth
Sample Efficiency in Text Diffusion PretrainingSSamuel DaunceyFS 25Ahmad Fraij
Scalable Proof-of-PersonhoodBYann VonlanthenFS 25Jan Boog
Scalar Quantization for Audio CompressionSTill Aczel,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 25Fei Gao
Scaling laws for test-time compute with SID.aiMSamuel DaunceyFS 25Jonathan Manz
Simulating Democracy through LLM AgentsMFrédéric Berdoz,
Yann Vonlanthen
FS 25Yann Billeter
Speech Dataset PipelineBLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 25Cesare Blaser
Synthetic Data as a Data AugmentationBAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 25Lars Ruschak
Text-to-SceneSLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25Nick Tuninga
Video-to-Audio GenerationMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 25Amir Dellali
Audio EditingMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24Michael Ungersböck
Audio WatermarkingMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24Kyle Fearne
Chaos Testing Blockchain Networks: Simulating Real-World FailuresMYann VonlanthenHS 24Ludovic Burnier
DAO Governance AggregationBArthur GervaisHS 24Mattia Pepin Taiana
DeepEye: Benchmarking & GeneralizationBArd KastratiHS 24Ruben Widmer
DeepEye: Benchmarking PlatformBArd KastratiHS 24Yun-Chiang Feng
Egocentric Action RecognitionMArd KastratiHS 24Marco Calzavara
Foundation Models for Decoding Brain Activity - BenchmarkingBArd KastratiHS 24Josua Bürki
Giving ChatGPT a Virtual BodySArd KastratiHS 24Han Xi
Layer-2s and MEVBLioba Heimbach,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 24Ozan Solmaz
Multi-modal Contrastive Learning for Emotion RecognitionMArd KastratiHS 24Dong Chu
Neural Fluid Simulation with GNNsSJoël Mathys,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24Segui Ugalde Aleix
Optimizing Encoding Speed for Image CompressionMTill AczelHS 24Josep Borrell Tatche
Optimizing Inventory ManagementMAndreas Plesner,
Benjamin Estermann
HS 24Tankred Imiolczyk
SAT Solving with Graph Neural NetworksSSaku Peltonen,
Joël Mathys
HS 24Jeremy Gleixner
Stability of Adversarial ExamplesBAndreas PlesnerHS 24Florian Rupp
View-Specific Video CompressionBTill AczelHS 24Sven Steffen
Volatility Forecasting and Regime Detection for Options TradingMFrédéric Berdoz,
Ruedi Delacour
HS 24Pierre Dorge
Game Theory for Games: Algorithms and AxiomsGAndrei ConstantinescuFS 24Mihail Lavric
Learning from DemonstrationsGBenjamin EstermannFS 24Jonas Pai
Puzzle solving with Graph Neural NetworksSJoël Mathys,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 24Niccolò Grillo
The Emergence of Two-Party SystemsGAndrei ConstantinescuFS 24Stefan Malanik

Past Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssignedStudent(s)
EuroSpeech: A Large-Scale Multilingual Speech Corpus from Parliamentary Recordings via Scalable Open-Source Pipelines [confidential]BLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 25Samuel Pfisterer
CAST: Conditional Adaption with Soft Tokens [confidential]MFrédéric BerdozHS 24Leo Neubecker
Rethinking Adversarial Examples [confidential]MAndreas PlesnerHS 24Yahya Jabary
Yield Curve Approximation and Prediction with Recurrent Neural Networks [confidential]BDaniela Brauckhoff,
Andreas Plesner
HS 24Marko Babovic
Anomaly Detection for Automated Visual Inspection [confidential]MIoana GiurgiuHS 24Mateo Diaz-Bone
Computing with Asynchronous Cellular Automata [confidential]MFlorian Grötschla,
Andreas Plesner
HS 24Ivan Baburin
Automated Visual Foosball TrackingBJoël Mathys,
Till Aczel
HS 24Linus Baumberger
Breaking Image CAPTCHAs and designing a new CAPTCHA [confidential]MAndreas PlesnerHS 24Turlan Kuzhagaliyev
Leveraging Pre-Trained LMs for Rapid and Accurate Structure Elucidation from 2D NMR Data [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24Susanna Di Vita
An Empirical Analysis of Polymarket [confidential]BLioba Heimbach,
Quentin Kniep
HS 24Dominique Buob
FastFeedForward Networks in Vision Transformers [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerHS 24Amaru Caceres Arroyo
Multi-Task Learning for Segmentation of Clinical EEG DatasetsMArd KastratiHS 24Jonas Lauer
Symbolic Music Generation with Autoregressive Graph Autoencoder [confidential]SFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 24Ziheng Chi
Human-aligned Compression for Robust Models [confidential]SAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
HS 24Samuel Räber
Kantian Moralists and Altruists [confidential]MDamien Berriaud,
Andrei Constantinescu
HS 24Jari Ettlin
ACORD: An Expert-Annotated Dataset for Contract Clause Retrieval [confidential]MAndreas PlesnerHS 24Steven Wang
Homo Moralis Plays the Centipede Game [confidential]BDamien Berriaud,
Andrei Constantinescu
HS 24Murezi Giger
Neural Networks for EEG Data: Compression and Reconstruction Validation [confidential]SArd Kastrati,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 24Riccardo Rigoni
Self-Supervised Overlap Removal with Graph Neural Networks [confidential]BFlorian GrötschlaHS 24Jan-Erik Gustafsson
High-Frequency Cryptocurrency Market Data Analysis for Centralized and Decentralized Exchanges [confidential]MLuca LanzendörferHS 24Jinfan Chen
Recommender Systems for Politics [confidential]GFrédéric Berdoz,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 24Niklas Pohl
FinGNN: Financial Graph Neural Networks [confidential]MJoël Mathys,
Ruedi Delacour
HS 24Simon Wachter
Text-to-Mel: Learning Mel Spectrograms [confidential]BLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24Simon Schoen
Transfer Learning for Graph-Based Recommendation Systems [confidential]BFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 24Elia Trachsel
Unified Model for EEG-based Eye Tracking [confidential]BArd KastratiHS 24Radim Urban
An Axiomatic Analysis of Partition Elections [confidential]BAndrei ConstantinescuHS 24Ramon Wick
Wave Function Collapse for Graph Generation [confidential]STill Aczel,
Joël Mathys
HS 24Soufiane Barrada
Exploit Detection in the Evolution of DAppsMBenjamin Estermann,
Ye Wang
FS 24Jean Marc Müller
Breaking Google’s reCAPTCHAv3 [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerFS 24Turlan Kuzhagaliyev
Breaking Google’s reCAPTCHAv3 - Getting good cookies [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerFS 24Diogo Sampaio Ribeiro
Breaking Google’s reCAPTCHAv3 - How are humans classified [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerFS 24Leila Chettata
Building a Multi-Cryptocurrency Node ExplorerSLucianna KifferFS 24Xin Hong
CLLAP: Contrastive Language-Lyrics-Audio Pretraining [confidential]MLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Paula Vidas
Compute-Efficient Pretraining of Large EEG Models [confidential]BArd KastratiFS 24Maxim Huber
Conditional Generation of WavetablesBLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Gion Stegmann
Improving the Data Quality of ConfSearch using LLMsSAndreas PlesnerFS 24Samuel Bohl
Data Driven Anomaly Detection for Rails using In-service Railway VehiclesBAndreas PlesnerFS 24Felix Beckers
Data Driven Anomaly Detection of Springs in In-service Railway Vehicles [confidential]BAndreas PlesnerFS 24Lin Xiao
Hidden State Aggregation Models with GNN Convolutions Applied to Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting in Energy Markets [confidential]MBenjamin EstermannFS 24Jan Frederik Mohr
Uncovering Discovery: A Deep Dive Into Ethereum’s Discovery Protocols [confidential]MLucianna Kiffer,
Yann Vonlanthen
FS 24Jérôme Landtwing
Byzantine Distributed Stable Matching [confidential]MDiana Ghinea,
Andrei Constantinescu
FS 24Marc Dufay
Deep Learning-Based Compression of EEG Data Using Neural Codecs [confidential]SArd Kastrati,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 24John Staib
Benchmarking Music Generation Models and Metrics via Human Preference Studies [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Ahmet Solak
Benchmarking Positional Encodings for GNNs [confidential]SFlorian GrötschlaFS 24Jiaqing Xie
Sybil Detection using Graph Neural Networks [confidential]MAndreas PlesnerFS 24Stuart Heeb
Improving Investment Strategies with GNNs [confidential]SFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
FS 24Guiv Farmanfarmaian
Graph Algorithms for Dynamic Directories [confidential]MAndrei Constantinescu,
Pankaj Khanchandani
FS 24Dominic Oertle
CLAP Embeddings for Artist Similarity with Graph Neural Networks [confidential]GFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 24Luca Strässle
Automated Vascular Graph Extraction [confidential]MJoël Mathys,
Andreas Plesner
FS 24Jorel Elmiger
Next Level Message-Passing with Hierarchical Support Graphs [confidential]SFlorian GrötschlaFS 24Carlos Vonessen Wilson
Hierarchical Representations for Transformers [confidential]MBenjamin EstermannFS 24Santiago Gallego Restrepo
FuzzNet: Imitating Byzantine Behavior in Distributed Systems [confidential]MYann VonlanthenFS 24Marc Widmer
Incentivizing Simple Transactions [confidential]BLioba Heimbach,
Andrei Constantinescu
FS 24Bahar Acilan
Infrastructure Impact on Cryptocurrency NetworksSLucianna KifferFS 24Kyle Fearne
Jigsaw Puzzle Solver using Machine Learning [confidential]SAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 24Lea Künstler
Reinforcement Learning for State-Based Algorithms on Graphs [confidential]MFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
FS 24Loic Holbein
LightningBench: A Real-World Payment Network Benchmark for Graph Neural Networks [confidential]MFlorian Grötschla,
Lioba Heimbach
FS 24Rainer Feichtinger
Leverage Staking using Liquid Staking Tokens [confidential]BLioba Heimbach,
Robin Fritsch
FS 24Coralie Sage
Contrastive Lyrics Alignment with a Timestamp-Informed Loss [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Timon Kick
Lyrics to Vocals Generation [confidential]MLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Georg Streich
High-Fidelity Music Vocoder Using Neural Audio Codecs [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Michael Ungersböck
FunctaFormer: Domain Agnostic Super Resolution [confidential]MLuca Lanzendörfer,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 24Flavio Schenker
Solving Poisson Equations using Neural Walk-on-Spheres [confidential]MAnima AnandkumarFS 24Hong Chul Nam
Open-LLark: Open-Sourcing And Extending LLark [confidential]BLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Nishanth Kumar
A Contention Aware Routing Algorithm for Analog-In-Memory-Computing Based DNN Accelerators [confidential]MWilliam SimonFS 24Orhun Görkem
Toward Robust Voting Advice Applications: Lessons from Smartvote [confidential]MYann Vonlanthen,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 24Dustin Brunner
Reconstructing ODEs for Railway Vehicles Using Machine Learning [confidential]BAndreas PlesnerFS 24Likuan Wang
Mangrove: Fast and Parallelizable Smart Contract Agreement [confidential]MYann Vonlanthen,
Quentin Kniep
FS 24Anton Paramonov
Analyzing Deep Learning Architectures on Stock Prediction [confidential]GFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
FS 24Stefan Kramer,
Simon Wachter
Structured Sparsity for Efficiency in Model InferenceSPeter BelcákFS 24David Alexander Danhofer
Text-to-Speech Arena [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24Benjamin Jäger
Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks to Predict Railway IrregularitiesMAndreas PlesnerFS 24Dingran Feng
Exploring Typical and Uncertainty-Driven Active Learning on DINO Embeddings to Enhance Versatility [confidential]STill Aczel,
Benjamin Estermann
HS 23Paul Doucet
AEye: A Visualization Tool for Image Datasets [confidential]GFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 23Marco Calzavara
Airdrop Mechanisms and Their Sybil Resistance [confidential]BLioba Heimbach,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 23Noe Marty
Tokenization of Ethereum Stake [confidential]SLucianna Kiffer,
Lioba Heimbach
HS 23Endi Kucuku
Object-Centric Reasoning with Language and Code [confidential]GBenjamin Estermann,
Joël Mathys
HS 23Gian Hess
Locating and Hiding Validators in the Ethereum Consensus Network [confidential]MLucianna Kiffer,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 23Juan Villacis
Attacks on DAOs [confidential]SLioba Heimbach,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 23Rainer Feichtinger
Generative Musical Source Separation Based on Neural Audio Codecs [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 23Amir Dellali
Best Pokémon TeamBAndreas PlesnerHS 23Jan-Philipp Pollmeier
I’m a Robot. Solving CAPTCHAs with Advanced Machine Learning Techniques [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerHS 23Tobias Vontobel
Audio Data Visualization Using Text-Audio Embeddings [confidential]BLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 23Uzeyir Valizada
Building Practical Distributed AlgorithmsGYann VonlanthenHS 23Andrea Jiang,
Catherine Schmit
Building Practical Longest Chain ProtocolsGYann VonlanthenHS 23Marc Widmer
WikiGame: Graph-Exploration, Fun includedGLuca LanzendörferHS 23Patrice Delley,
Filip Jaksic,
Lorenzo Paleari,
Leonardo Salsi
Dawn of an Era: How Layer 2 Solutions Change the Workload on Ethereum Blockchains [confidential]MLioba Heimbach,
Quentin Kniep
HS 23Patrick Züst
Improving Non-Linear Redundancy Reduction in Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning [confidential]GBéni EgressyHS 23Matthias Otth
Crawling the Bitcoin Client EcosystemSLucianna Kiffer,
Lioba Heimbach
HS 23Hyun-Min Chang
Cue and Mix-Point Estimation for Automated DJ Systems [confidential]MLuca LanzendörferHS 23Giulia Argüello

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