Programme

Welcome & Status THI Doctoral School

Prof. Dr. Christian Facchi | Head of Doctoral School
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Birkner | Deputy Head of Doctoral Center Engineering
Prof. Dr. Gordon Elger | Member of Doctoral Center AI/Computer Science
Dr. Monika Kolpatzik | Managing Director Doctoral School 

AI/Computer Science | Short Presentations 
Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Riener 

• Coarser Abstraction of Telemetry-based segment-level heteroscedastic emission-rate model for state-based MIP | Mert Alagözlü
• Efficient Pretraining of Spoken Language Models | Gokul Srinivasagan
• Online Monitoring Framework for Automotive Time Series Data using Latent Embeddings | Alexander Fertig
  

Poster Pitches - One Minute Madness  
Chair: Dr. Monika Kolpatzik  

     AI/Computer Science

• Optimization of transit signal priority control using machine learning methods | Philip-Roman Adam
• HumAIne Intelligence: Human-Augmented Artificial Intelligence to Address Data Quality Issues Leading to Data and Concept Drift | Muhammad Uzair Akmal
• Obstacle Avoidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Reinforcement Learning and LiDAR Data | Konstantin Bake
• Efficient Cross-Architecture Binary Function Embeddings through Knowledge Distillation | Dominik Bayerl
• Cost-sensitive Defect Detection in Multistage Manufacturing | Kristina Dachtler
• Validation of a POMDP Framework for Interaction-aware Trajectory Prediction in Vehicle Safety | Tim Elter
• Through the Looking-Glass: The Current AI Landscape in German Hospitals from a Cybersecurity Perspective | Prof. Patrizia Heinl
• A Taxonomy for Human-Swarm Interaction | Diah Iraw
• Strategy Synthesis and Hierarchical Planning | Fazli Faruk Okumus
• Event-based Vision in Automated Driving | Carla Roth
• Towards a Configurable and Reusable RL Training Infrastructure for AMRs in ROS2 | Pauline Steffel

• Uncertainty in Deep Learning-based Perception for Automated Driving Safety | Fabian Ulreich

  Engineering

• Optimal Integration of Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage into a Thermal Source Network (5GDHC) | Shariq Akbar
• Absicherung von AVP in CarMaker: Integration von ANTON | Ömer Dönmez
• Uncertainty-Aware Hybrid Machine Learning in Virtual Sensors for Vehicle Sideslip Angle Estimation | Abinav Kalyanasundaram
• Assessing the Completeness of Traffic Scenario Categories for Automated Highway Driving Functions via Cluster-Based Analysis | Niklas Roßberg
• Investigation of the Influence of State of Charge Distribution on the Thermal Propagation | Michael Theiler
• Optimization of additively manufactured high-performance aluminum alloys for robust and efficient processes | Felix Wenninger

Poster Session &

Lab-Tour @Robotics Lab: KUKA Welding Robot | Elisabeth Baer

Engineering | Short Presentations
Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Birkner 

• When Aging Turns Hazardous: How Electrochemical Degradation Alters the Mechanical Safety of Tabless 4695 Cylindrical Cells | Prof. Richard Polzer
• Improving V2X Conformance Testing using Synthetic Data: A Conceptual Introduction | Leonardo Barbosa da Silva
• Heuristic Approaches to Scheduling Refrigeration Systems in Cold Storage Warehouses | Martin Stöckl
   

Science Pitch

• Artificial Intelligence and the Strategic Conversation: Findings from an Experimental Study of Scenario Planning Dialogues | Dr. Gerhard Schönhofer