 International Alliance of Research Universities| Acronym | IARU | | Homepage | http://www.iaruni.org/ | | Country | [nothing] | | ZIP, City | | | Address | | | Phone | | | Type | | | Current organization | International Alliance of Research Universities | | Members | |
Open OpportunitiesAre you interested in working with metagenomics and metatranscriptomics data and learning bioinformatics and molecular biology techniques for environmental engineering applications? We have the MSc thesis project for you. - Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified, Environmental Technologies, Microbial Ecology, Sequencing and Genomics, Water and Sanitary Engineering
- Master Thesis
| This project aims to collect diverse forehead PPG datasets using a newly developed device, to evaluate variability across populations and sensor placements and, to explore their impact on signal quality. You will apply classical signal processing and machine learning methods to extract reliable MRI triggers from the PPG signal to statistically quantify the pulse arrival time (PAT) and its variability. If time permits, you may further investigate the extraction of respiratory-modulated components from the PPG waveform. - Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing, Biomechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Optometry
- Bachelor Thesis, Semester Project
| Recent work in legged robotics shows the promise of unified control strategies for whole-body control. Portela et al. (2024) demonstrated force control without force sensors, enabling compliant manipulation through body coordination. In another study, they achieved accurate end-effector tracking using whole-body RL with terrain-aware sampling. Fu et al. (2023) showed that unified policies can dynamically handle both movement and manipulation in quadruped robots by training with two critics: one for arms, and one for legs, and then gradually combining them.
In this project, you will investigate reinforcement learning for whole body control of a bimanual legged manipulator. You will implement a baseline single-critic whole body controller for the system. You will then investigate different multi-critic approaches and their effects on the training and final performance of the whole-body controller.
References:
Learning Force Control for Legged Manipulation, Portela et al., 2024
Whole-Body End-Effector Pose Tracking, Portela et al., 2024
Deep Whole-Body Control: Learning a Unified Policy for Manipulation and Locomotion, Fu et al., 2023 - Robotics and Mechatronics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Diffusion models (DDPMs) have revolutionised generative modelling, surpassing GANs in images, advancing audio synthesis, and enabling de-novo protein design. Yet progress on time series lags behind early adversarial work. Recent studies highlight the benefits of spectral biases - FourierFlow and frequency-domain DDPMs.
In parallel, diffusion in the wavelet domain has emerged for images, offering a multi-resolution view well-suited to non-stationary signals. Wavelets capture localised, scale-dependent features, making them attractive for domains from finance to climate and biomedical data such as ECGs.
This project proposes the first DDPM framework operating directly in the wavelet domain for time series, aiming to improve generalisation, interpretability, and robustness across diverse sequential tasks. - Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing, Statistics
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Für den Hochwasserschutz im Oberpinzgau soll eine Alternative zum vom Land Salzburg erstellten Projekt erarbeitet werden. In einer Machbarkeitsstudie wird ein Entlastungsstollen in den bestehenden Speicher Durlassboden inklusive Wasserkraftnutzung geprüft. - Water and Sanitary Engineering
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| This thesis allows you to contribute to our research on high-temperature heat pumps with refrigerant mixtures. Heat pumps have the potential to decarbonize substantial shares of industrial heat supply and with refrigerant mixtures the efficiency and flexibility could be increased. However, critical challenges remain and are yet to be researched, one of which is the knowledge gap around lubrication.
In your thesis, you will assess the lubrication challenge by developing and using thermodynamic models, thereby enabling potential issues in an early development stage. - Fluidization and Fluid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Process Control and Simulation
- Master Thesis
| Investigate how best to unite Koopmans and Perdew-Zunger self-interaction corrections for electronic structure calculations. - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Investigate how best to unite Koopmans and Hubbard corrections for electronic structure calculations. - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Develop a plugin for the Jupyter-based AiiDAlab Quantum ESPRESSO app focused on calculating the work function of material surfaces. Ideal for students aiming to apply their coding skills and scientific knowledge to contribute to scientific software in material science research. - Software Engineering, Theoretical and Condensed Matter Physics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| This project uses Visual Language Models (VLMs) for high-level planning and supervision in construction tasks, enabling task prioritization, dynamic adaptation, and multi-robot collaboration for excavation and site management.
prioritization, dynamic adaptation, and multi-robot collaboration for excavation and site management - Information, Computing and Communication Sciences
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
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