Nghia Duong-Trung - Supervision

PhD candidates:

Samer Hajj Hassan (Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon)
- Duration: 01.09.2024 - 01.09.2027.
- Topic: Towards Trustworthy AI. Pipeline Preparation, AI Explainability and Interpretability (AIX) Integration, Federated Learning Implementation, and Advanced Security Solutions.
- Co-supervision with Prof. Dr. Chamoun Maroun and Assist. Prof. Khalil Hariss.

Dung Ngoc Le Ha (Can Tho University, Can Tho city, Vietnam)
- Duration: 01.11.2022 - present.
- Topic: Motion detection with energy-based models.
- Co-supervision with Prof. Dr. Hiep Xuan Huynh, Dr. Tran Thanh-Dien

Master's Theses

2026

Abhinav Maddineni (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: Smarter Decisions, Stronger Startups: How Generative Artificial Intelligence Guides Optimal Funding Allocation and Builds Investor Confidence in Startup Ecosystems
Padmaloscinie Manikandan (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: A Predictive Maintenance Framework for Component Failure Detection in Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Janhavee Ajay Kanoje (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: Gate Analysis - Automated Binary-Gate Logic Engine for Supplement Validation
Berfin Ates Oren (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: VoltRadar: Forecasting Import Growth and Monitoring Trade-Policy Interventions in Lithium-Ion Battery Markets
Kunapalli Uha (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: Real-time Facial Emotion Recognition Using Deep Learning: A Comparative and Cross-Domain Evaluation
Ishan Sunil Thakare (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: Cross-Domain Generalization of Classic ML Models: An Annotation Budget Study for Sentiment Analysis
Akshaben Mahebubbhai Makarani (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: Temporal Granularity and Forecast Configuration for Zero-Shot Energy Forecasting
Taha Jerbi (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: Predicting Creative Reuse in Online Music Communities: Structure, Network Position and Source Recommendation
Rohn Thomas Ithiparambil Jossey (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: Outcome Conditioned Attribute Noise in Bias Mitigation: Structure, Base Rate and the Equalized Odds Gap
Anshu (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 04.2026 - 07.2026
- Major: Data Science and AI. Topic: Exploring Traditional and Usage-based Insurance Through Predictive Large Language Model Techniques.
Senem Kirac (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 05.2026 - 08.2026
- Major: Wirtschaftsinformatik M.Sc. Topic: Augmented Service Delivery: A Systematic Literature Review on Human-AI Teaming in Cloud Operations and IT Service Delivery.
Manukonda Uday Babu (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 12.2025 - 03.2026
- Major: Data Science and AI. Topic: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for SME Risk Assessment: A Comparative Study Using SHAP-based Interpretability.
Chepelesu Kaunda (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 03.2026 - 08.2026
- Major: Artificial Intelligence. Topic: A Multi-Agent Autonomous Tutoring System with Dynamic Learning Path Routing and Scheduling for Messaging-Based Education.
Pratik Vinit Pagar (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 02.2026 - 06.2026
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Synthesization of Out-of-Scope Component Semantics in Service-Rich Software Systems using Reinforcement Learning.
Felipe Martinez (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 01.2026 - 05.2026
- Major: Cyber Security. Topic: Comparison between Machine Learning and Quantum Machine Learning for Noise and Attack Detection in Quantum Key Distribution.
Fred Katumba (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 01.2026 - 05.2026
- Major: Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Demand Forecasting to Reduce Antimalarial Drug Stockout in Hospitals.
Abdalssalam Tuiamat (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 12.2025 - 04.2026
- Major: Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Vision-Based Teleoperation for Cost-Effective Robotic Arm Training.
Marco Wenzel (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 12.2025 - 05.2026
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning and Optimization of Large Language Models for Swift Code Generation on Apple Silicon Using MLX.
Archana Mudheli (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 12.2025 - 03.2026
- Major: Data Science and AI. Topic: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Optimization Using Machine Learning for E-commerce Retail.
Ihor Lukianov (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 10.2025 - 02.2026
- Major: Data Science. Topic: Text-to-SQL Applications with Large Language Models: Benchmarks, Approaches, and Multi-Agent Systems.
John Jonathan (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 10.2025 - 04.2026
- Major: Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Empirical Analysis of Accuracy - Privacy Trade-offs in Federated Learning for Mobile Movie Recommendation Systems.
Kgomotso Larry Sebela (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 10.2025 - 03.2026
- Major: Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Lightweight Real-time Sign Language Recognition on Edge Devices for Educational Accessibility Using Spatial-Temporal Feature Fusion. Best Thesis Award.

2025

Kidist Abraham Weldeselassie (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)

- Duration: 08.2025 - 12.2025
- Major: Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Real-time Aggression Detection System for Psychotherapy Settings Using Edge AI and Embedded Sensors.

Can Taskin (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)

- Duration: 06.2025 - 10.2025
- Major: Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Ensemble-Based Prompt Injection Detection for Small Language Models.

Jose Guadalupe Esparza Marin (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)

- Duration: 06.2025 - 11.2025
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Enhancing UNet with Vision State Space Models for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation.

Agonis Osmani (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)

- Duration: 01.2025 - 04.2025
- Major: Data Science. Topic: Comparative Analysis of Multi-Objective Optimization Models in Dynamic Delivery Networks.

2024

Ronak Gajjar (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 05.2024 - 09.2024
- Major: Data Science. Topic: Revolutionizing E-commerce Search: Comparing Diverse Machine Learning Methods for Automated Product Tagging and User Experience Enhancement.
Nicole Agnes Yiega Muswanya (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 05.2024 - 09.2024
- Major: Data Science. Topic: Enhancing Breast Cancer Diagnosis through Deep Learning-Based Classification of Mammograms.
Serkan Dikici (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 04.2024 - 08.2024
- Major: Data Science. Topic: Evaluating Amazon DeepAR and Meta Prophet in Electricity Demand Forecasting: A Practical Approach.
Mustafa Dogruer (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 02.2024 - 07.2024
- Major: Data Science. Topic: Fine Tuning Large Language Models for Scientific Domain Content Generation Using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRa).
Aleksandra Nekhviadovich (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Duration: 02.2024 - 07.2024
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Psychomotor Feedback Engine: From Motion Distance to Error Detection.
- Co-supervisor with Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker.
Samer El Hajj Hassan (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 01.2024 - 04.2024
- Major: Data Science. Topic: The Digital Guardian: Leveraging Machine Learning for Identifying and Classifying Cyber Threats in Network Environments.
Hitesh Kotte (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

- Duration: 09.2023 - 05.2024.
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Real-time Pose Estimation in Fitness.
- Second examiner (Co-supervisor with Dr. Milos Kravcik and Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger).

2020

Trần Tú (Can Tho University, Can Tho City, Vietnam. M2518031)
- Duration: 03.2020 - 10.2020
- Major: Information Systems. Topic: Xây dựng hệ thống tư vấn học tốt bài trắc nghiệm khách quan.
Lâm Thanh Phương (Can Tho University, Can Tho City, Vietnam. M2518026)
- Duration: 03.2020 - 10.2020
- Major: Information Systems. Topic: Nhận dạng lá cây thuốc Nam với Deep Learning.

Bachelor's Theses

2026

Yuriy Pak (Gisma University of Applied Sciences)
- Duration: 07.2026 - 10.2026
- Major: Data Science, AI, and Digital Business. Topic: RU-LWOW: Russian Free-Association Norms Generated by Large Language Models
Anastasiia Shvydkaia (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 05.2026 - 07.2026
- Major: Applied Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Concept Drift Detection in Multi-Class Imbalanced Data Streams
Vania Kouhsari (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 04.2026 - 06.2026
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Data Leakage in Supervised Machine Learning Pipelines: A Structured Taxonomy and Critical Evaluation of Detection and Mitigation Strategies
Subhi Salman (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 03.2026 - 05.2026
- Major: Applied Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Mudafati: An AI-Driven Framework for Quantifying Chronic Food Additive Exposure through Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
Sergei Liapunov (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 03.2026 - 05.2026
- Major: Applied Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Rubric-Grounded LLM-as-Judge for IELTS Writing: Reliability, Calibration, and Preference Adaptation Using an Automated Essay Scoring Expert Model
Guglielmo Luraschi Sicca (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 02.2026 - 04.2026
- Major: Applied Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Benchmarking Open-Source SLMs and VLMs on Heterogeneous Edge Hardware: Performance, Memory Limits, and Deployment Friction.
Zonunmawia (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 12.2025 - 02.2026
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Fast Interactive Diffusion Model for Nuclei Segmentation.
Stefan Stricker (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 12.2025 - 01.2026
- Major: Data Science. Topic: Evaluating Generalization of CNN Architectures under Domain Shift in Trash Classification.
Izaan Zubair (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 11.2025 - 02.2026
- Major: Applied Artificial Intelligence. Topic: A Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning (PPO) and DPO Methods for Aligning LLMs in Automated Unit Test Generation.

2025

Edita Ginterytė-Šidlauskienė (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 09.2025 - 12.2025
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Subscription Cancellations in Web Applications.
Jan Biernacki (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 09.2025 - 12.2025
- Major: Softwareentwicklung. Topic: Conception and Prototypical Implementation of a Locally Executed iOS Agent System with MLX and On-Device SLMs.
Zuhraxon Gulomova (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 08.2025 - 12.2025
- Major: Applied Artificial Intelligence. Topic: Explainable AI for Lung Disease Detection: A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Models on Chest X-ray Images.
Thomas Didillon-Hödl (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 08.2025 - 12.2025
- Major: Business Administration. Topic: Actuarial pricing and risk modelling of injury insurance in professional football: a frequency-severity analysis.
Kenneth Ogbe (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 01.2025 - 03.2025
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: A Comparative Study of Lightweight Vision Transformers, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Hybrid Models for Deepfake Detection in Resource-Constrained Environments.
Jesper Thomas (IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Campus, Germany)
- Duration: 01.2025 - 03.2025
- Major: Computer Science. Topic: Machine Learning for Posture Detection and Ergonomic Assessment.

2019

Trần Ngọc Tuyền (KHMT 2015)
- Topic: Kết hợp mô hình học sâu và học chuyển cho bài toán phân loại hình ảnh x-quang chẩn đoán bệnh ung thư phổi.
Đặng Thiên Tân (KHMT 2015)
- Topic: Xây dựng mô hình máy học dự đoán hành vi mua sắm các sản phẩm ngày Black Friday của người dùng.
Bùi Thị Tú Trinh (KHMT 2015), Nguyễn Hoàng Xuân (KHMT 2015).
- Co-supervision with Nguyễn Minh Kỳ (FPT Software, Can Tho city)
- Topic: Xây dựng ứng dụng hỗ trợ chẩn đoán tình trạng sức khỏe dựa trên một số giải thuật học có giám sát.
Nguyễn Dương Thành Trí (KHMT2015)
- Co-supervision with Nguyễn Minh Kỳ (FPT Software, Can Tho city)
- Topic: Xây dựng ứng dụng Chatbot và hệ thống gợi ý vào chuỗi cửa hàng đồ ăn và thức uống

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