NEWS

HDS-LEE congratulates Karina on her successful defense. Her dissertation was on “Geometry-aware image analysis for microfluidic live-cell experimentation”.

We are proud to anounce that Kaveh Patakchi Yousefi et al. (2024) was selected to be featured in the newsletter of Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Congratulations to Sonja Germscheid for the successful defense of her dissertation on "Industrial Demand Response Potential of Simultaneous Day-Ahead and Intraday Electricity Market Participation".

Congratulations to Robin Hilgers for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Prediction of Magnetic Materials for Energy and Information Combining Data-Analytics and First-Principles Theory".

Congratulations to Ann-Kathrin Edrich for the successful defense of her dissertation on "Machine learning based landslide susceptibility assessment: Challenges of study design and opportunities for early warnings".

An HDS-LEE team consisting of Ann-Kathrin Edrich, Joana Elena Meyer, Anna Simson, and Anton Stratmann participated in the 2024 WiDS Datathon++ University Edition.

Congratulations to Sophia Münker for the successful defense of her dissertation on "Generic Importance Sampling via Stochastic Optimal Control and Dimensionality Reduction for Stochastic Reaction Networks".

Congratulation to Felix Terhag for recieving the Best Paper Award at the 9th European Seminar on Computing (ESCO).

Congratulations to Alaukik Saxena for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Machine learning workflows for automatic analysis of atom probe tomography data".

Congratulations to Leonardo Boledi for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Numerical Multiphysics Modeling with Space-Time Finite Elements: Assessing the Performance of Thermal Melting Probes".

Congratulations to Mario Rüttgers for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Automated Surgery Planning for Improved Nasal Breathing".

The "Quantum Computational Science and Engineering" hackathon took place for the first time as part of the MSS profile area and JARA CSD. PhD students were given the opportunity to use the Quantum Annealer JUPSI at the FZJ as part of small projects. The results are very promising.

Congratulations to Giuliano Santarpia for the successful defense of his dissertation on "RepOdor: a Manually-Curated, Comprehensive Repository of Odorants and their Olfactory Receptors".

HDS-LEE was positively evaluated on February 14-15, 2023 by a evaluation committee of six renowned scientists from the field of data science. At the Helmholtz General Assembly, it was decided to continue the funding of the graduate school together with the other five Helmholtz Data Science Schools.

Congratulations to Daniel Wolff for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Learning-Based Approaches for the Analysis and Optimization of Profile Extrusion Dies and Bioreactors".

The doctoral researchers had three days of intensive exchange on their projects and on Data Science applications and methods. In the morning there were lectures and in the afternoon team building activities and a hike organized by the doctoral researchers.

Congratulations to Viktor Grimm for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Physics-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Computational Fluid Dynamics".

Congratulations to Alper Yegenoglu for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Gradient-Free Optimization of Artificial and Biological Networks using Learning to Learn"

Michael I. Jordan, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley talked about "On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design" in the HIDA Lecture@HDS-LEE.

Congratulations to Johannes Kruse for the successful defense of his dissertation on "Machine learning of power grid frequency dynamics and control: prediction, explanation and stochastic modelling".