10 MSc Students of ELLIS unit Amsterdam Presented Thesis Projects Conducted Abroad

The MSc Honours students who presented their excellent works at the event are:

Oline Ranum

Thesis project title: 3D Awareness, Geometry & Linguistics in Neural Sign Language Representations

Supervisors:

• Dr. Erik Bekkers (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Coloma Ballester (ELLIS Member, University of Barcelona)
• Prof. Dr. Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam)

Jona Ruthardt

Thesis project title: Do Better Language Models Have Crisper Vision?

Supervisors:

• Dr. Gertjan Burghouts (ELLIS Member, Senior Researcher at TNO)
• Dr. Yuki Asano (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Serge Belongie (ELLIS Fellow, University of Copenhagen)

Madhura Pawar

Thesis project title: Improving Centrality Fairness in Algorithmic Link-Recommendations

Supervisors:

• D'r. Fernando P. Santos (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Dr. Fariba Karimi (TU Graz)

Luca Pantea

Thesis project title: Reinforcement Learning from Simulated Feedback: Optimizing Pandemic Response

Supervisors:

• MSc Rob Romijnders (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Dr. Yuki Asano (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Pascal Frossard (ELLIS Fellow, EPFL Lausanne)

Walter Simonici

Thesis project title: Are all you need your nearest neighbors and their gradients?

Supervisors:

• Dr. Yuki Asano (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Dr. Andrei Bursuc (ELLIS Member, Deputy Scientific Director at valeo.ai)

David Frühbuß

Thesis project title: Cancer Immunotherapy Design with Geometric Deep Learning

Supervisors:

• Dr. Erik Bekkers (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Li Xue (Radboud University)
• Prof. Dr Stefanie Jegelka (ELLIS Member, TUM München)

Diego Garcia Cerdas

Thesis project title: Data-driven exploration of selectivity in the human visual cortex using diffusion models

Supervisors:

• Dr. Iris Groen (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Gemma Roig (ELLIS Member, Goethe University Frankfurt)
• Dr. Pascal Mettes (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• MSc Christina Sartzetaki (University of Amsterdam)

Egoitz Gonzalez Manso

Thesis project title: SLAM Expert System for Learning Optimal Tracking Strategies

Supervisors:

• Dr. Martin R. Oswald (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys (ELLIS Member, ETH Zürich)

Robin Sasse

Thesis project title: Hierarchical Auto-Vocabulary Segmentation

Supervisors:

• Dr. Martin Oswald (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Dr. Francis Engelmann (ELLIS Member, ETH Zurich)
• MSc Osman Ülger (University of Amsterdam)

Avik Pal

Thesis project title: Hyperbolic embedding of multiple hierarchies

Supervisors:

• Dr. Pascal Mettes (ELLIS Member, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Fabio Galasso (ELLIS Member, Sapienza University of Rome)