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.
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".
