Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence


This list includes theses in the former specialization "Kunstmatige Intelligentie" of the Bachelor Informatica.


2024-2025
Student Thesis Content
Greganova, A. (Adela)Enhancing Principal Component Analysis-assisted Bayesian Optimization through Local Embeddings
Zaciragic, T. (Tarik)Bluffing Tendencies in Leduc Hold’em
Asghari, S. (Sana)Generating Synthetic Liver Tumor CT scans for Medical AI Applications
Ayerdem, C. (Cem)Application of Governance on Third-Party Identities
Bagan, N. (Nataliia)Optimizing Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation using Reinforcement Learning-Based Methods
Banny, I. (Ivan)Enhancing PCA-Assisted Bayesian Optimization through Parallel Orthogonal Sampling
Bazba, A. (Alexander)Secure Machine Learning: A Comparative Study of Special Preprocessing Techniques in Multiparty Computation
Bichev, I. (Ivan)Benchmarking Automata Learning
Branger, P. (Peter)NoodleGP: Automatic Guitar Tablature Generation Using Conformers
Bujna, A. (Adam)Automated Segmentation of Amyloid Fibres from Electron Micrographs
Celep, B. (Beyza)Extraction of Metadata from Debt Letters: Comparison of Local NLP Models
Chaara, O. (Oumnia)Enhancing Biodiversity Stability: Adaptive Parameter Optimization in Abstract Ecosystem Simulations
Cieloszczyk, A. (Anna)Added Value of Advanced Machine Learning over Baseline Association Rules Mining
Cremer, A. (Alexander)Deepseek vs OpenAI - A Comparison of GRPO and PPO in Reinforcement Learning Environments
Díaz Fiol, T. (Tomás)Evaluating Adaptive and Static Risk-Taking in Robot Navigation on a Dynamic 2D Grid
Dijksterhuis, Y. (Yvonne)Multi-Objective Optimisation Genetic Algorithm for Strategic Life Cycle Management Backlog Creation
Dziuzaite, P. (Patricija)Extracting ADRs from Oncology Texts: Comparing Language Models and Traditional Machine Learning Approaches
Elbrecht, E. (Erki)Video Steganography with Deep Neural Networks
Frentz, S.M. (Sander)Evaluating the Impact of Prompting Techniques on the Logical Consistency of LLMs
Gagua, M. (Mariam)Modeling Vegetation Health from Climate Drivers: Residual-Based Detection of Anomalies
Georghiou, C. (Christos)Topology of Decentralized Social Networks: A Case Study of Bluesky
Haan, I.B. de (Ian)The Impact of Reasoning on LLM Performance in ToM tasks
Hagen, L.A. (Leïla Aïkili)News Mining for Homicide Characteristics in Indonesia for a Thesis Research Proposal
Haik, D. (Dominika)A Diagnostic Framework for t-SNE and UMAP: Improving Interpretability
Houwen, M.I. van der (Mathilde)Physiological Correlates of Human-Robot Dictator Game Behavior
Ionescu, T. (Teodor-Calin)Topic Modelling Applied to Storytelling Data for Better Patient Care
Iqbal, K. (Keith)Optimizing Deep Reinforcement Learning Architectures for Pacman: A Comparative Study of Manual Design and Evolutionary Algorithms
Kalinin, V. (Volodymyr)Interactive Signaling and Response System
Kalnare, M. (Matiss)Adaptation of Mechanistic Interpretability Methods to Time Series Transformers in Classification Tasks
Kataria, A. (Arman)Liquid Neural Networks vs RNNs: A Deep Learning Approach to Time Series Forecasting
Kendic, F.S. (Ferid)Exploring Reinforcement Learning in the Financial World
Kennon, E. (Ella)Comparing the Performance of the Walsh and Multilinear Basis with Regression Surrogate Models for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization
Kleinwort, L. (Luis)Improving the Computational Efficiency of Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition
Koppers, M. (Maurits)Optimizing Multimodal Emotion Expression for an Appearance-Constrained Robot
Kroll, J. (Jesse)Evaluating Adversarial Robustness in Time-Series Classification: A Comparative Study on Self-Supervised Learning Models
Lans, J.C.W. (Joris)The ‘Magic Word’ for LLMs: A Study on the Effect of Politeness on LLM Performance
Leenen, J.P. (Jort)Practical Equivalence Checking of P4 Packet Parsers
Leeuwen, Q. van (Qiu)Explaining semantic priming effects using predictors derived from Large Language Models
Lens, P. (Pepijn)Threshold-Tunable U-Net for Small Target Detection in Maritime Radar: An Alternative to CFAR
Li, X. (Xu)Reinforcement Learning for Training Small LLMs by Distillation
Lo, F.J.A. (Fong Jing Ashley)What’s the Point of Diffusion Planning in Offline Reinforcement Learning?
Lytovka, M. (Maksym)Beyond Coarse-Grained Matching in Video-Text Retrieval
Mediavilla, J. (Juan)Fine-tuning General Time Series and Accelerometer-Specific Self-Supervised Models for Human Activity Recognition
Moerdijk, D. (David)Application of Transformer Models and Mixture-of-Experts Architectures on Pairs Trading with ETFs
Mogyorósi, Á. (Ádám)Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization for Real-Time Grocery Delivery Routing Using Natural Computing Algorithms
Mohamed, B. (Bilal)Integrating Subgroup Discovery with Conversational AI for Enhanced Business Intelligence
Motz, L. (Luuk)Modeling Social Creativity with Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems and Emergent Properties of Collective Creative Processes
Mushmush, R. (Riham)A Study on the Effects of Speech Performance of a NAO Robot on Information Recall
Nanhekhan, T. (Thalia)Sensitivity of Automatic Speech Recognition on Non-Native Speakers Accents
Nastas, A. (Alexandra)Reducing Gender Bias in a Dutch Language Model through Counterfactual Data Substitution
Nieland, J. (Jesse)The Possibilities of Applying Machine Learning to a Limited Esports Dataset
Oomen, G. (Guus)Enhancing Medical Dialogue Systems: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for More Accurate Diagnoses
Opdam, K. (Kenji)Finding and Visualising Patterns and Knowledge Gaps in the Field of AutoML for Earth Observation
Pilarek, R. (Roza)Annealing-Based QUBO Optimization for NLP Hyperparameter Tuning
Piszczek, W. (Wiktor)Improving Settlers of Catan agents with Natural Language
Pomp, L. (Lisa)The Influence of Personalised Feedback on Coding Education for Children through the Use of an Educational Game
Pronk, L.A. (Levi Ari)Unveiling the Roof: Anomaly Detection in Train Pantographs
Radojevic, S. (Steffan)Evaluating the Effectiveness of Multi-Striding on the Raspberry Pi 5 and Banana Pi F3
Raven, J. (Jip)Completeness and Decidability of (Guarded) Kleene Algebra (with Tests) under the Hypothesis e = 0
Rezan, V. (Valeria)Decoupling Exploration and Exploitation in Intrinsic Motivation Methods
Ruijven, L. van (Lee)The Effect of Different Voices in Robots
Salim, D.K. (Dania Kadah)How does the DeepSeek-R1 model understand emotions?
Salman, A. (Avan)Application of Knowledge Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
San Juan Palacios, D. (Daniel)Embodied LLMs Spatial Perception, Understanding, and Prediction
Santos Cordeira, P. dos (Phoebe)Object Detection and Rotation Estimation Using IntelRealsense Depth Camera
Sanz Lozano, R. (Rebeca)Assessing Bias in Machine Learning Models for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection Across Gender and Age
Scheerder, A. (Alexander)Large Language Model as model in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Smeyers, C. (Catherine)Analysis and Visualization of AI-generated Amigurumi Crochet Patterns
Stranomiti, E. (Emmanouela)YOLO-Based Fusion Models for Real-Time 3D Object Detection
Tsie-A-Foeng, E. (Ernie)Transforming the Crazyflie 2.1 Nano-Drone into an Interactive Pet
Ulusal, F. (Figen)Semantic Priming: Comparing LLMs, Human Feature Norms and Associative Strength
Veen, J.H. van (Rick)RL in a Dynamic Environment
Wang, O. (Ocean)A study of TabPFN as surrogate Model in Bayesian Optimization
Wu, N.C. (Nicholas Chi-Hung)Multi-Objective Maintenance Optimization

2023-2024
Student Thesis Content
Alkema, J.D.C. (Joris Duurt Cornelis)Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks in the Presence of Fault Injection Attacks: Simulations versus Measurements
Arkoubi, Y. El (Yesmina)Custom Pooling Methods for Convolutional Neural Networks
Baghdasaryan, R. (Ruzanna)Questionnaire-driven Dialogue: Utilizing Large Language Models for Hallucination-free Conversational AI in Elderly Well-being Monitoring
Berger, R. (Rutger)Predicting Photovoltaic Power Output with Deep Learning
Berkel, R. van (Razo)The Effect of Visual Cues on Theory of Mind abilities in Multimodal AI
Bulut, S. (Seyidali)How Much Alike Are We to One Another? Analyzed with Online Footprint
Dröge, M. (Matteo)The Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off in Reinforcement Learning: an EduGym Implementation
Haleema, R. (Raneem)The Birth of the Future: on Neuralink & Implanting Mind Chips
Jagt, E. van der (Erik)Creating a 3D Human-like Search Algorithm
Ketwaru, S. (Sjouk)An analysis of Deep Learning algorithms for producing training data focused on chest X-ray images
Lelasseux, M. (Maxine)Analyzing Offenses Against Life Data: a Machine Learning Approach on Data Extracted From the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Database
Martens, I. (Ivar)Evaluation methods and model performance for imbalance price forecasting
Ruijters, S. (Stan)PTP: Partiture to Performance using Speech Synthesis with Encoder-Decoder models
Sleeuwaegen, R. (Ryan)The Effect of Robot Personality on Gameplay Interaction
Wallaard, L. (Lisanne)Model Deployment of a Predictive Machine Learning Model for Clinical Decision Support
Weterings, K.T. (Kiara)Once Upon a Time in a Land Far Far Away, There Was Gender quality - Exploring gender stereotypes in ChiSCor’s fantasy stories told by children.
Weterings, K.T. (Kiara)Once Upon a Time in a Land Far Far Away, There Was Gender Equality - Exploring Gender Stereotypes in ChiSCor’s Fantasy Stories Told by Children
Zheng, A. (Alex)Exploring Algorithmic Approaches to Best the Game Hill Climb Racing

2022-2023
Student Thesis Content
Aaldering, B. (Bart)The Performance of Information Set Monte Carlo Tree Search in the Game Klaverjas
Beusichem, L. (Luuk) van The effect of humanoid embodiment on the perceived intelligence, usability, likability and animacy of reception robots
Boef, B.M. (Bart) denGenerating metadata for UML class models from natural language requirements texts using NLP
Bonsu, E. (Enrico)Simulating driving behaviour using Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Braam, I. (Isaac)BlockStep, An A* Algorithm toward Minecraft Optimal World Traversal for Speedrunning
Dijkstra, R. (Rachel)The integration of facial expression recognition as a game mechanic in video games
Eeckhout, S. (Sanne)Feature Extraction Methods as Backbone in Image Forgery Detection
Janssens, L. (Lex)Crossy Road AI: How will the chicken cross the road?
Kaddouri, S. (Sayf) ElStructural Systematicity under Varying Meaning Spaces
Kandhai, A. (Ayush)Improving STag’s Occlusion Resilience for Augmented Reality
Lee, J. (Jennifer)Adapting Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Boss Fights in Hollow Knight: a reward shaping approach
Oey, E. (Elyanne)Hypernetworks for binary neural networks
Özdemir, B. (Burak)Improving Migraine Diagnosis by using Binary and Multi-Class Classification of Machine Learning
Paqué, S. (Sven) The Generation of Evolving Drum Sequences Using Artificial Intelligence
Suttorp, S. (Sharanda)Quantifying the Effect of Super-Resolution on Aerial Scene Classification
Terentev, M. (Maksim)Emergent Theory of Mind in Large Language Models
Tsang, D. (Donny)Analyzing ChatGPT’s output: a study on its psycholinguistic dimensions and personality traits
Tuk, M. (Mattias)Usability of VR in the construction of category theoretical diagrams
Velden, L. (Liva) van derGenerating and Solving PushPush Puzzles
Wallaard, L. (Lisanne)Model Deployment of a Predictive Machine Learning Model for Clinical Decision Support