PhD Defences 2014

Ninh Dang Pham, 7 October 2014 at 1PM, AUD 1
Thesis: "On the Power of Randomization in Big Data Analytics"
Assessment committee:
Associate Professor, Dan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate Professor, Aristides Gionis, Aalto University
Associate Professor, Ira Assent, Aarhus University
Supervisor:
Professor Rasmus Pagh

Antonios Liapis, 19 September 2014 at 1PM, AUD 1
Thesis: "Searching for Sentient Design Tools for Game Development"
Assessment committee:
Associate Professor, Kasper Støy, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor, Michael Mateas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor, Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Supervisor:
Associate professor Georgios Yannakakis/Associate professor Julian Togelius

Taus Brock-Nannestad, 12 September 2014 at 1PM, AUD 1
Thesis: "Less is More and More is Less in Proof Structure and Proof Search" (contact phdsupport@itu.dk for a copy of the thesis)
Assessment committee:
Associate Professor Thore Husfeldt, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Dale Miller, INIRA Saclay
Professor Roy Dyckhoff, St. Andrews
Supervisor:
Associate professor Carsten Schürmann

Rosalba Giuffrida, 29 August 2014 at 16.30, 3A20
Thesis: "How Social Software supports communicative and coordinative Practices in Global Software Development"
Assessment committee:
Associate Professor Irina Shklovski, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate Professor Jacob Nørbjerg, Aalborg University
Professor Walt Scacchi, University of Irvine
Supervisor:
Associate professor Yvonne Dittrich

Nanna Holdgaard, 27 June 2014 1PM, AUD 3
Thesis: "Online Museum Practices - A holistic analysis of Danish museums and their users"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Torill Mortensen, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Kim Christian Schröder, Roskilde University
Senior Lecturer Ross Parry, University of Leicester
Supervisor:
Associate professor Lisbeth Klastrup/Associate professor Susana Tosca

Aslak Johansen, 4 June 2014 at 1PM, AUD 3
Thesis: "Njulla and GreenLab: Programming Mote-Class Devices in the Context of a Testbed Designed for the Energy Harvesting Regime"
Assessment committee:
Professor Rasmus Pagh, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Rasmus Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School
Professor Thiemo Voigt, Uppsala University and SICS
Supervisor:
Associate professor Philippe Bonnet

Paolo Tell, 21 May 2014 at 19PM, AUD 4
Thesis: "Activity-Based Computing for Supporting Cooperation in Global Software Engineering" (contact phdsupport@itu.dk for a copy of the thesis)
Assessment committee:
Full professor Søren Lauesen, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria
Supervisor:
Professor Ali Babar

Fabrizio Biondi, 15 May 2014 at 10AM, AUD 4
Thesis: "Markovian Processes for Quantitative Information Leakage"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Carsten Schürmann, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Director of Research at INRIA Catusscia Palamidesse
Lecturer (tenured) Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham
Supervisor:
Associate professor Andrzej Wasowski

Mads Frost, 5 May 2014 at 1PM, AUD 3
Thesis: "Designing Personal Health Technologies"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor John Paulin Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Geraldine Fritzpatrick, Technical University of Vienna
Associate professor Jakob Eg Larsen, Technical University of Denmark
Supervisor:
Professor Jakob E. Bardram

Corrado Grappiolo, 28 April 2014 at 1PM, AUD 3
Thesis: "Unveiling Collaborative Group Identities in Social Synthetic Environments from Interaction Data"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Kasper Støy, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Daniel Aslock, University of Guelph
Doctor Clara Pizzuti, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council of Italy
Supervisor:
Associate professor Georgios Yannakakis

Filip Sieczkowski, 14 March 2014 at 1PM, AUD 1
Thesis: "Towards Modular Reasoning for Realistic Programming Languages"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Rasmus Møgelberg, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Senior Researcher Nick Benton, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Professor Frank Piessens, KU Leuven
Supervisor:
Professor Lars Birkedal

Konstantin Kutzkow, 10 January 2014 at 1PM, AUD 2
Thesis: "New Sampling and Sketching Techniques for Data Stream Mining" (contact phdsupport@itu.dk for a copy of the thesis)
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Thore Husfeldt, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Andrzej Lingas, Lund University
Associate professor Toon Calders, Free University of Brussels
Supervisor:
Professor Rasmus Pagh