Theses
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Bachelor Thesis [157]
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Doctoral Thesis [29726]
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Habilitation Thesis [192]
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Master Thesis [1975]
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Prototyping of a landscape-scale phenotyping approach for quantification of winter wheat growth and development
(2024)Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important staple crops, cultivated on 20\% of the world's arable land. Ensuring that wheat production keeps up with the growing demand for food and biomass, while reducing its environmental impact and increasing its resilience to a changing environment, is one of the most critical challenges facing agriculture today. For these reasons, it is important to study plant growth and development ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Algorithms for developable remeshing, approximation and unwarping
(2024)Developable surfaces are a special class of surfaces that are locally isometric to the plane. In a practical sense this means that they can be fabricated by bending inextensible sheets of material, such as sheet metal, wood panels, paper and up to a certain extent glass panels. Because of this property they form a set of surfaces that are relatively inexpensive to construct, which contributes to their popularity in architecture and ...Doctoral Thesis -
Disaggregated Heterogeneous System for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
(2023)Retrieval-augmented language models (RALMs) present an evolving frontier in natural language processing, combining the capabilities of conventional large language models (LLMs) with vector-based content retrieval from extensive knowledge databases. Efficiently deploying RALMs remains challenging due to the distinct workload characteristics of RALM components and the vast size of knowledge databases. This thesis discusses the deployment ...Master Thesis -
A Distributed System for Large Scale Vector Search
(2024)Machine learning (ML) models can encode various types of data as vectors that represent the data semantics. Consequently, vector similarity search is now the backbone of modern information retrieval and machine learning systems. In a search engine, an ML model first encodes the query as a vector. The query vector is then compared against the database vectors, and the ones that are closest to the query are returned. Such search process is ...Master Thesis -
Economics and Policy of Pesticide Reductions in Perennial Crops: The Role of Information within the Supply Chain
(2024)Pesticides, while indispensable for agricultural productivity, have negative consequences on human health and the environment. In response to growing concerns within societies, numerous countries including Switzerland have embarked on ambitious plans to curtail pesticide use and its associated risks. However, the progress towards these use and risk reduction objectives has been insufficient, leaving many targets unmet. Perennial crops ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Stabilization of Colloidal Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals by Solid-Phase Ion Engineering
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Effects of endosymbionts on aphid vectors: Implications for plant virus transmission and ecology
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Small-scale coronal upflows in the quiet Sun and coronal holes
(2023)The Sun is the star at the centre of our Solar System. It has been studied by humans for many generations but it still holds many secrets and is far from being fully understood. Solar research is an extensive field of astrophysics and is now more important than ever before. In the highly technological society that we live in it is crucial to understand solar activity and its impact on Earth; in particular with respect to the Earth’s ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Neural Scene Representations for 3D Reconstruction and Scene Understanding
(2023)In an era where machines are increasingly integrated into our daily lives, their ability to perceive and understand the three-dimensional world becomes of great importance. Central to this capability is the scene representation, which translates sensory data into compact, detailed, and holistic descriptions of the environment. While deep learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), has revolutionized many facets of computer ...Doctoral Thesis -
Emergent Dynamics in Self-Sustained Systems
(2024)Oscillations manifest as periodic patterns over time in measured or simulated signals. In the presence of dissipation, oscillations can only be sustained if energy is supplied to the system via a certain excitation mechanism. Depending on whether this mechanism is viewed as external or as intrinsic to the system, the resulting dynamics are described as forced or as self-sustained oscillations, respectively. A common example of self-oscillations ...Doctoral Thesis -
The atomic-scale origins of the Invar effect in Fe-based bulk metallic glasses
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A new system of wearables and nearables to monitor sleep: from the lab to real-world application
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Towards the laser-based powder bed fusion of high performance oxide ceramics
(2024)The potential of laser-based powder bed fusion for engineering ceramics is highly promising, as it has the capability to create intricate near-net shapes in a single-step process. If implemented successfully, this additive manufacturing technology could be profoundly disruptive, reducing production costs, and increasing accessibility to engineered ceramics. However, the current adoption of this technology in industry is hindered by ...Doctoral Thesis