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Inferring Present and Past Monsoon Climates over Mountainous East Asia with a Regional Climate Model
(2024)Doctoral Thesis -
Navigating cellular complexity in plasmonic photothermal therapy: a standardised in vitro protocol
(2024)Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) emerges as a transformative approach for cancer treatment at the intersection of nanophotonics, biotechnology and cell biology, promising to overcome the limitations of conventional cancer treatments. In PPTT, gold nanoparticles are illuminated to induce localised heating, selectively targeting malignant cells in a minimally invasive treatment. However, despite its potential, the lack of comprehensive ...Doctoral Thesis -
Training and Certification of Neural Networks with Guarantees
(2024)Provable safety and trustworthiness guarantees are crucial for the safe adoption of neural network based systems in mission-critical applications. However, despite significant efforts, both training networks that satisfy such safety and trustworthiness properties and verifying that they do so remain open challenges. In this thesis, we tackle both of these challenges and demonstrate that they are closely intertwined. We present two novel ...Doctoral Thesis -
Brain-IT: Targeting the Brain using Information Technology for Secondary Prevention of mild Neurocognitive Disorder
(2024)Introduction: Effective interventions to mitigate one of the key challenges for aging societies, neurocognitive disorders, are urgently needed. A collaborative international guideline recently recommended physical exercise (PE) for secondary prevention of mild neurocognitive disorder (mNCD). Physical exercises that integrate cognitive exercises and are combined with resonance breathing guided by heart rate variability biofeedback (HRV-BF) ...Doctoral Thesis -
Stable Envelopes of Nakajima and Bow Varieties: Geometry, Combinatorics and 3D Mirror Symmetry
(2024)Doctoral Thesis -
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Dark Sector Searches Weakly Coupled to Muons with the NA64μ Experiment at CERN
(2024)Many fundamental problems associated with the Standard Model of particle physics remain open today, among which are notable the strong CP problem, neutrino oscillations, or the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. One of the foremost open questions is the fundamental nature of Dark Matter, its origin, and its constituents. In this regard, particular interest has emerged in the explanation of its particle nature assuming mass ranges ...Doctoral Thesis -
Trusted Computing on Modern Platforms: Analysis, Challenges, and Implications
(2024)Computing architectures come in all forms and shapes, and they impact our daily lives significantly. Smartphones are omnipresent, most jobs require daily interactions with computers, and leisure time is dominated by the availability of decades worth of TV shows at the tip of a finger. As computing architectures dominate many fields, they must also process confidential data, from medical data and e-voting to personal communications in ...Doctoral Thesis -
Explaining and Improving Communication in Graph Neural Networks
(2024)This thesis studies improvements for message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) from two angles. First, we tackle the problem of understanding how GNNs reason. We quantify how much GNN architectures achieve the combined reasoning over features and edges that GNNs uniquely offer. We then present two methods to explain GNN predictions. The first explanation method explains graphs by contrasting them to similar examples. The second explanation ...Doctoral Thesis -
Advanced Simulation, Encoding and Inference for Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging
(2024)Doctoral Thesis