On December 18, Friedemann Lipphardt successfully defended his thesis with the title "Towards a better understanding of under-explored facets of Internet censorship".
On December 10 he successfully defended his thesis with the title "Getting to the root of SSH Compromises: A Multi-Dimensional Characterization of the SSH Threat Landscape".
On 4 December 2025, Emilia Weyulu successfully defended her thesis with the title "Towards a Robust and Reproducible Evaluation Framework for Congestion Control Algorithms".
On November 24, Xingchang Huang successfully defened his thesis with the title ""Understanding noise correlations in generative models for graphics content generation and editing".
On August 26, Gereon Fox successfully defended his thesis with the title "Learning and exploiting temporal dependencies in the synthesis and analysis of video signals".