Student's Corner

Adriana Bethke describes how she tested a new loss function for the deep learning gene finder Tiberius in her recently submitted bachelor thesis. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Denise Welsch (University of Applied Sciences Koblenz), Prof. Dr. Mario Stanke (University of Greifswald) and Dr. Marc Jacobs (Fraunhofer SCAI).

Jomana Reusch presents her Master's thesis, which she recently defended as part of the applied mathematics degree program at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Holger Fröhlich and Prof. Dr. Michael Kinder.

Tim Adams gives an overview of his PhD topics involving automated data harmonization and the evaluation of synthetic patient-level data.

Pegah Shakibnia describes how her PhD research focuses on building evidence-aware knowledge graphs that connect nutrition, the gut microbiome, and brain health to enable more structured, tractable biomedical reasoning for precision nutrition and healthy ageing research.

Ahmed Hossameldin Mohamed summarizes his Master’s thesis, where he explored how multi-agent AI systems can transform sparse biomedical knowledge graphs into dense, validated, and traceable resources for scientific discovery.

Atefeh Habibi presents her thesis on an AI-powered pipeline that unifies clinical trial and literature data for aging research. By replacing keyword searches with smart concept mapping, her work builds a massive, interconnected knowledge graph that dramatically improves how scientists find and connect biomedical evidence.

Baris Yapici summarizes his Master's thesis in which he used Knowledge Graphs to identify promising data collaborations between researchers and research projects.

PhD student Jannis Guski presents his latest paper in which he applies causal machine learning techniques to analyze whether real-world patient data hint at an increased risk of neurodegeneration caused by SARS-CoV-2 infections. The work was conducted as part of the EU project COMMUTE.

Lennart Carstens-Behrens shares some insights into his work on the estimation of causal effects that lifestyle factors might have on the risk of Parkinson's disease.

India Mähler presents her master's thesis, which she recently defended as part of the applied mathematics degree program at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Holger Fröhlich and Prof. Dr. Armin Fiedler.