Supervisors for projects and theses
To students: This is a list of Computer Science Department people who can supervise projects and theses, with interests and project ideas. Also see Research Project and Thesis. Valid from spring 2024: Intended Learning Outcomes for BSc and MSc theses.
To supervisors: Please edit your information to be valuable to students. The list of projects may be inline in this page or a link to a separate one.
Anna Rogers
Natural language processing: language models, interpretability, evaluation, machine reading comprehension, AI ethics
Email | Homepage | Project directions | Twitter
Alessandro Bruni
Security, protocols, protocol analysis, formal verification, logics, ethical hacking, electronic voting, IoT
Amelia Jiménez-Sánchez
Deep learning, medical imaging, health, curriculum learning, domain adaptation, federated learning, evaluation of AI.
Andres Faina
Robotics, both software and hardware. Self-reconfigurable robotics, evolutionary robotics, liquid-handling robots, electronic and mechanical design (including automatic design), hardware and prototypes. A lot of projects combine software and hardware, but just software projects are also available.
Email and Homepage and List of project ideas (REAL lab).
Andrzej Wasowski
Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance, Bugs Finding and Fixing, Static Analysis and Testing, Open Source, Project, Linux Kernel, Robot Operating System, Probabilistic Programming, Data Privacy and Leakage
Email and Homepage and List of project ideas.
Bernardo Machado David
Cryptography, multiparty computation, blockchain.
Research interests: foundations (oblivious transfer/commitments), efficient multiparty computation, privacy preserving and scalable blockchain applications, privacy preserving machine learning.
Email, Homepage and Project Ideas
Bertram Højer
Natural Language Processing, Representation Learning, Definitions of Intelligence, Reasoning, Interpretability
Carsten Schürmann
Information security; socio-technical systems, security analysis, IoT security, offensive security, forensics, program and protocol verification, standards and certification. Election security; cryptographic voting protocols, statistical methods in elections and risk-limiting audits, zero-knowledge proof checking, identity management. Digital democracy; models of electoral transparency, vote privacy and trust, computational social choice. Programming language theory, type theory, logic, formal methods; logical frameworks, substructural and modal logics, domain specific programming languages, concurrency, automated theorem proving, proof assistants, computational logic.
Christian Hardmeier
Natural language processing: Machine translation, multilingual NLP, bias and fairness in NLP, reference in language, discourse/text-level NLP.
Christian Sivertsen
Mixed reality, telepresence, experience design for museums, art, and culture.
Christian Østergaard Madsen
Public IT projects, digital governance, multichannel management, service design, action research, qualitative and quantitative studies, literature reviews
Claus Brabrand
Computing Education Research, Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation, Diversity/Gender Studies, Cognitive Competences (SOLO Taxonomy), Teaching/Learning Activities, Online Teaching/Learning Activities, Assessment, Learning Tools, Educational Experiments.
Dan Witzner Hansen
Image analysis, machine learning, eye tracking, Gaze interaction, sports analysis, Eye information, Privacy and security within Eye information.
Dovile Juodelyte
Deep learning, transfer learning, medical imaging. Currently only co-supervising with Veronika Cheplygina.
Eduard Kamburjan
Software engineering.
Elda Paja
Requirements, software engineering, security.
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou
Data Management, Spatial Data Analytics, Data Structures
Website| Project ideas | Email
Elisa Bassignana
Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science.
Fabricio Batista Narcizo
Eye tracking, computer vision, machine learning, web programming, and mobile app development.
NB: Since Fabricio is a part-time lecturer, you must ask for permission for him to supervise BSc and MSc projects.
Email
Harshit
Photogrammetry, Computer Vision, 3D Scene Reconstruction, Point cloud Processing, 3D Geospatial Modeling
Helge Pfeiffer
Software Engineering, Software Quality and Metrics, Technical Debt, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery/Deployment, Dependency Management, Reverse Engineering
Jens Schmidt
Government IT. IT Projects. Software Engineering.
Jesper Bengtson
Programming languages, logic, verification.
Jørgen Staunstrup
Mobile apps (Android) and Concurrency
Kasper Støy
Robotics. Current topics: Affective robots, lab automation, and braid robotics.
Konstantinos Manikas
Software architecture, software development, software engineering, agile development/architecture, enterprise architecture & IT strategy.
NB: Since Konstantinos is a part-time lecturer, you must ask for permission for him to supervise BSc and MSc projects.
Email , homepage
Leon Derczynski
Very limited supervision availability. Data science, natural language processing.
Research interests: Fake news detection, Social media, Health analytics
Email, homepage, project list
Louise Barkhuus
Social science studies of technology, privacy, qualitative and quantitative methods, mobile social technologies, human-computer interfaces (HCI)
Website: www.barkhu.us
Louise Meier Carlsen
Mathematics
Computer science education
Luca Aiello
Computational Social Science, Data Science, Applied Machine Learning, Network Science.
Mail, Website, and Twitter, NERDS Student page
Mahsa Varshosaz
Software testing and verification, software product lines analysis, program repair, quantitative verification.
Email and Homepage
Marco Carbone
Security, Software as a Medical Device, Programming Languages, Concurrency, Distributed Systems, Formal Models
Current topics:
- Using Machine Learning to guess communication protocols in a distributed System - Detect communication errors in robots - in collaboration with Andrzej Wasowski - Privacy via Gradual Typing in Erlang - in collaboration with Alessandro Bruni
General topics:
- Risk Management (formal models or Software as a Medical Device) - Behavioural types in mainstream programming languages
Maria Astefanoaei
Spatial data analysis, timeseries data, large scale visualisations, machine learning, urban computing, graph algorithms, human mobility, embeddings
Martin Aumüller
Algorithms, Algorithm Engineering, Algorithmic Privacy & Fairness.
Mail, Website, and Projects Ideas
Michael Szell
Not supervising until Fall 2025 (parental leave). Urban Data Science, Network Science, Bicycle Networks and Infrastructure, Human Mobility, Sustainable Urban Transport, Social Networks, Computational Social Science.
Email, Website, Project Ideas, NERDS Student page
Michele Coscia
Network Analysis, Social Networks, Data Mining, Human Mobility, Complex Systems, Economic Development, Memetics.
Email and Homepage and List of project ideas. NERDS Student page
Mircea Lungu
Software engineering, software evolution, big software data, software visualization, tools for software development and tools for augmenting learning.
Email and Homepage and Student Projects.
Nutan Limaye
Algorithms.
Oksana Kulyk
Security, privacy, electronic voting, human factors, usability
Email and Homepage.
Paloma Thomé de Lima
Algorithms.
Paolo Tell
Software engineering.
Current topics:
- State of the art of automation for systematic literature studies. - Adoption of AI4SE in the Danish IT industry. - Understanding how AI4SE can be integrated effectively into software engineering practices.
General topics:
- Software development processes and practices in the wild. - Technologies to improve cooperation in SE teams.
Patrick Bahr
Programming languages, compilers, type theory, formal verification, functional programming
Email and Homepage and Project ideas.
Payam Zahadat
Robotics software, swarm robotics, bioinspired computing.
Peter Sestoft
Programming languages, software development, functional programming, parallel programming, end-user programming, spreadsheet technology, compilers.
Email and Homepage and List of project ideas.
Pınar Tözün
Data systems, databases, data management on modern hardware, workload characterization, heterogeneous hardware. Email and Homepage and Project ideas for the data systems group.
Radu-Cristian Curticapean
Contact me if you're interested in a project in algorithms or theoretical computer science in general. I am also interested in exploring modern ways of teaching computer science.
Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg
Programming languages, logic, semantics. Dependent types.
Raúl Pardo
Online privacy: privacy in data analytics, privacy in Internet of Things, privacy in social networks, enforcement of privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR); probabilistic programming; formal methods; Bayesian data analysis.
See also the list of project ideas in the SQUARE group.
Riko Jacob
Topics: (Parallel) Algorithms, complexity, sorting, experiments, differential privacy, combinatorial optimization
A project on algorithmic group formation with different thesis possibilities.
Write me an email and we will discuss the details of a bachelor-, master- or project-thesis.
Rob van der Goot
Natural Language Processing.
Email, Website, Potential projects,
Robert Bayer
Topics: TinyML, Resource-constrained hardware, ML on satellites, tinyML, edgeML.
Email, Website, Potential projects,
Roberta Sinatra
Very limited supervision availability. Social Networks, Network Science, Computational Social Science, Data Science, Complex Systems, Science of Science
Email, Website, Twitter, NERDS Student page
Rodrigo Moreno Garcia
Machine learning applied to control, design and optimization of robots, Modular Robots, Laboratory automation for chemistry and biotech, Evolutionary robotics.
Rosario Giustolisi
Security.
Email, Website, and List of project ideas
Rune Møller Jensen
Meta heuristics, constructive heuristics, mathematical programming, constraint programming, prediction, classification, forecasting, development of large-scale optimization algorithms like phase-decompositions and test driven design, decision support systems for stowage planning, uptake management, and capacity management in container and break-bulk liner shipping.
Email and Homepage and List of project ideas.
Sami Brandt
Image, video, and audio analysis; mathematical imaging; computer vision; machine learning; statistics.
Email and Homepage.
Sinisa Neskovic
Web Application Development, Web Architectures and Frameworks, Advanced Software Architectures.
NB: Since Sinisa is a part-time lecturer, you must ask for permission for him to supervise BSc and MSc projects.
Email
Søren Debois
Very limited supervision availability. Security, distributed systems, blockchain, smart contracts, applications in large organisations, applications of traditional security techniques to compliance.
Homepage.
Stefan Heinrich
Neurocognition inspired Machine Learning and Machine Learning driven Cognitive Modelling, often on Problems in Natural Language Processing and Language Acquisition.
Email | Website | Suggestions for student projects
Stella Grasshof
Face models; 3D reconstruction; factorization models; Non-rigid structure from motion; 3D point correspondences; image registration; Image, video, and audio analysis; Image processing; computer vision; machine learning; spatial and temporal alignment; expression transfer; mental health; body motion analysis; Human motion
Email, Website, Studentprojects
Therese Graversen
Statistics (both mathematical statistics and applied statistics), Bayesian networks and graphical models, DNA forensics, Forensic science.
Thore Husfeldt
Algorithms. Relatively scaleable project ideas about algorithms visualisation, mainly BSc and MSc Softward Design.
Ties Robroek
Topics: Data Loading, Data Selection, Data Attribution, (Data Management for) ML Benchmarking, Deep Learning on GPUs, Resource-aware Machine Learning
Email, Website, Potential projects,
Toine Bogers
Recommender systems, information retrieval, data science, computation HR, data mining. Email Website
Vedran Sekara
Data Science, Network Science, Computational Social Science, Data Mining, Social Networks, Complex Systems, Algorithmic Auditing, Data Representativeness, Bais & Fairness in ML and AI (+ occasional 'crazy projects')
Email, Website, Twitter, NERDS Student page
Veronika Cheplygina
Pattern recognition, transfer learning, medical imaging, health, open science, evaluation of AI (bias and fairness, carbon footprint), meta-research
Email | Website | Project ideas |
Willard Rafnsson
Security, programming languages, program analysis, program verification, program transformation, program synthesis, testing, programming language theory, type theory, automated theorem proving, interactive theorem proving.
Homepage, Mail.
Yvonne Dittrich
Software engineering. Home page.
Zoi Kaoudi
Data systems, knowledge graphs, large-scale data analysis.