PhD Defences 2018
Nanna Gorm Jensen, 18 December, at 1 PM
New Location: Auditorium 3
Thesis: "Every Step You Take: Tracking Physical Activity at Work and at Home"
(If you wish to see the thesis, please contact phdsupport@itu.dk)
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Erik Grönvall, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chairman)
Associate Professor Gina Neff, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Associate Professor Anders Albrechtslund, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Supervisor
Associate professor Irina Shklovski
Hugo Mulder, 10 December, at 1 PM
Location: Auditorium 4
Thesis: "Enactive Architecture: Considering the Role of Architectural Movement in Building Cognition."
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Jonas Fritsch, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chairman)
Dean, Professor Jane Burry, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Associate Professor Phil Ayres, KADK The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark
Supervisor
Associate professor Kjell Yngve Petersen
Jannick Schou Hansen, 5 December, at 10:00 AM
Location: 3A18
Thesis: "REMAKING CITIZENSHIP: Welfare Reform and Public Sector Digitalization"
(If you wish to see the thesis, please contact phdsupport@itu.dk)
Examination Committee
Associate Professor, Head of Department, Lone Malmborg, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chairman)
Professor Katarina Lindblad-Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Professor Thomas P. Boje, Roskilde University, Denmark
Supervisor
Associate professor Morten Hjelholt
Gernot Rieder, 19 November, at 1 PM
Location: 2A12-14
Thesis: "BIG DATA: OR, THE VISION THAT WOULD NOT FADE"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Irina Shklovski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chairman)
Professor Evelyn Ruppert, University of London, England
Professor Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Supervisor
Associate Professor Judith Simon
Amanuel Zewge Tekelemariam, 15 November, at 1 PM
Location: 3A20
Thesis: "Community-based Participatory Design of
Technological Alternative for a Development Context:
(The Case Study of ICT appropriation for Ethiopian Rural Communities)"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Jörn Messeter, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chairman)
Professor Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, England
Professor Heike Birgit Alice Winschiers-Theophilus, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia
Supervisor
Associate Professor Yvonne Dittrich
Matteo Dusefante, 14 November, at 1 PM
Location: 3A18
Thesis: "Sparse Matrix Multiplication Kernels"
Examination Committee
Professor Thore Husfeldt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chairman)
Professor John Iacono, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Professor Rolf Fagerberg, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Supervisor
Associate Professor Jacob Riko
Florian Biermann, 11 October, at 13:00 PM
Location: 5A60
Thesis: "Data-Parallel Spreadsheet Programming"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Sami Brandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chairman)
Assistant Professor Felienne Hermans, TU Delft, Netherlands
Professor Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Supervisor
Full Professor Peter Sestoft
Louise Harder Fischer, 21 September, at 2:30 PM
Location: Auditorium 1
Thesis: "Reconsidering the Socio-Technical Perspective under the Sway of Technological Individualization in Knowledge-Work Settings"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Alexander Richter, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Bendik Bygstad, University of Oslo, Norway
Associate Professor Mari-Klara Stein, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Supervisor
Associate Professor Lene Pries-Heje
Zaheer Ahmed, 14 September, at 2:30 PM
Location: Auditorium 4
Thesis: "On the Factors that Affect the Accuracy and Precision of Gaze-Estimation"
(If you would like to see a copy of the thesis, please contact phdsupport@itu.dk)
Examination Committee
Professor Peter Sestoft, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Senior researcher Roman Bednarik, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Associate Professor Marcus Nyström, Lund University, Sweden
Supervisor
Associate Professor Dan Witzner Hansen
Frank Veenstra, 19 June, at 12:30 PM
Location: Auditorium 1
Thesis: "The Watchmaker's guide to Artificial Life: On the Role of Death, Modularity and Physicality in Evolutionary Robotics"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Jes Frellsen, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Dr. Gusz Eiben, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Professor Dario Floreano, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Supervisors
Professor Kasper Støy, IT University of Copenhagen
Co-supervisor
Associate Professor Sebastian Risi, IT University of Copenhagen
Tobias Lybecker Christiani, 4 June, at 1 PM
Location: Auditorium 2
Thesis: "Algorithms for Similarity Search and Pseudorandomness"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Thore Husfeldt, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Martin Dietzfelbinger, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Professor Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Supervisor
Principal supervisor: Professor Rasmus Pagh, IT University of Copenhagen
Alivelu Manga Mukkamala, 1 May, at 2 PM
Location: Auditorium 2
Thesis: "Social Media Analytics for Disaster Management"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Hanne Westh Nicolajsen, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Andrea Carugati, Aarhus University
Professor Claudia Büngeler, Kiel University, Germany
Supervisor
Professor Roman Beck, IT University of Copenhagen
Ahmad Salim Al-Sibahi, 11 January, at 1 PM
Location: Auditorium 2
Thesis: "Foundational Analysis Techniques for High-Level Transformation Programs"
Examination Committee
Associate Professor Riko Jacob, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Tijs van der Storm, University of Gronningen, Netherlands
Research Director Xavier Rival, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
Supervisor
Professor Andrzej Wąsowski, IT University of Copenhagen
Co-supervisor
Aleksandar Dimovski, PhD