On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 Seyedali Rasaii defended his thesis with the title: “Understanding Impact of Banner Interaction on User Tracking via Web Cookies”.
Joint Press Release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology
On Monday, 09 March 2026 Nihar G. Sabnis defended his thesis with the title: “Re-envisioning Touch: Designing Embodied Material and Force Experiences with Motion-Coupled Vibrotactile Feedback”.
On Wednesday, 04 February 2026 Magdalena Theresa Kaiser defended her thesis with the title: "Reinforcement Learning from Implicit Feedback for Conversational Question Answering".
On 16 January 2026 Linjie Lyu successfully defended his thesis with the title: "Global Illumination in Inverse Rendering: From Probabilistic Reconstruction to Generative Editing”.
On 13 January 2026 Mallikarjun BR successfully defended his thesis with the title: "Monocular face reconstruction and editing using priors learned from 2D data”. He was a doctoral candidate in the MPI for Informatics and Saarland University. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Scientific Director of the Department Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence. The doctoral degree was awarded by Saarland University.
