Note: the overview per supervisor is likely partially incomplete.


Year Student ThesisSupervisorsProgrammeContent
2025‑2026Nathie, R. (Rajeev)The Capabilities of LLMs in Assisting in a Language Production Taskdr. X. Zheng, Ren, dr. Z.DSAI
2025‑2026Isik, B. (Barbaros)ECR-RR: Empathetic Conversational Recommender with Critic-based Rerank...Ren, dr. Z., Wang, dr. H.CS
2025‑2026Ning, C. (Cong)A Multi-Stage Framework for Strict Item Cold-Start Recommendation with...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2025‑2026Sin, C. Y. (Chuck Yin)A Comparison Between Traditional and LLM Recommendation System Perform...Ren, dr. Z., J. ZhaoInf
2024‑2025Mohamed, B. (Bilal)Integrating Subgroup Discovery with Conversational AI for Enhanced Bus...Knobbe, dr. A.J., Ren, dr. Z.DSAI
2024‑2025Bagan, N. (Nataliia)Optimizing Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation using Reinforcement ...Ren, dr. Z., J. ZhaoDSAI
2024‑2025Oomen, G. (Guus)Enhancing Medical Dialogue Systems: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models ...Ren, dr. Z., J. ZhaoDSAI
2024‑2025Sreejith, A. (Athul)Anomaly Detection in Weather Forecast Data that leads to Wildfire Even...Wang, dr. H., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Strijker, J. (Jonathan)Legal Question-Answering in the Age of Large Language ModelsVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Tu, S. (Siwen)Explore the Impact of Context in News Image Captioning - CONFIDENTIALWijnholds, dr. G., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Wheeler, M. (Michael)Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Answering IT Helpdesk QuestionsVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Yuan, H. (Haoxiang)Enterprise Question Answering System on Technical Documents with a Lar...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Eveleens, S. (Stan)A Personalized Job Ranking System for the Recruitment IndustryRen, dr. Z., Ramackers, dr. G.J.CS
2024‑2025Guo, Z. (Ziming)Enhancing Engineering Document Analysis through Structured Data Mappin...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2024‑2025He, X. (Xiang)Unlearning for Sequential Recommender SystemsRen, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Hu, Z. (Ziyou)Towards Unified Evaluation in Open QA: A Multi-Level LLM-as-a-Judge Ap...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2024‑2025Li, S. (Shupei)Rethinking Conversational Recommender Systems: A Reproducibility Inves...Ren, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Rong, X. (Xiaoran)Exploring Influencing Factors and Application Scenarios in Recommendat...Ren, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Kluiver, S. (Sem)Zero-shot Strategies and Cosine Similarity in Selectical: a Technology...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Sai, N. (Nan)Optimizing the Linear Interpolation of Sparse and Dense Retrieval Mode...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Wu, J. (Jie)Improving QA for low-resource languages with language alignmentVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Burg, K. van der (Koen)NAARA: Leveraging Large Language Models to Mitigate Digital Distractio...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2023‑2024Zhao, C. (Chao)Enhancing Personalized Academic Search with Query Expansion: A Real-Wo...Ren, dr. Z., S.A. Tabatabaei MScCS
2023‑2024Mutijima, A.S. (Ange)Using LLMs for Data-Driven Business DecisionsRen, dr. Z., WangI&E
2023‑2024Owee, B.J. (Bryan Joseph)Open-source Large Language Models for Named Entity RecognitionRen, dr. Z., ZhaoI&E
2022‑2023Yang, ZihuiImprove Answer Retrieval in the Legal Domain with Structured Inputs fo...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z., Arian AskariCS
2022‑2023Liu, J. (Jingwen)Evaluating the Zero-shot Performance of Three Transformer Models in Re...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.Inf