Thesis Topics
Our groups current research activities are focused on the following three directions:
- Real-Time Systems, including formal timing analyses, scheduling algorithm design, real-time operating systems, Worst Case Execution Time, etc.
- Please contact Junjie Shi, Niklas Ueter, Mario Günzel, Nils Hölscher and Ching-Chi Lin
- Embedded Systems, including system software development, design and optimization for emerging architectures, etc.
- Please contact Christian Hakert and Nils Hölscher
- Resource-constrained Data Analyses, including error tolerant neural networks, architecture-aware data analyses, etc.
- Please contact Mikail Yayla and Mojtaba Masoudinejad
- Autonomous Robots, including autonomous navigation with cars, simulation, communication, control systems, etc.
- Please contact Harun Teper
If you are interested in writing your thesis in any of the above mentioned research directions please refer to the corresponding people directly for further topic discussions or see the list of available thesis topics below.
Please see the list of completed theses to get an impression of topics provided by our group.
In case you cannot find a suitable one but you are still interested in ES/CPS designs, please refer to the aforementioned LS12 staff.
Currently available thesis topics:
- Framework for Evaluating the Trust- worthiness of Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Vehicles (MA/BA)!New!
- LLVMTA: Adding AARCH64 (ARMv8,9) support to a static WCET analyser (MA/BA)!New!
- LLVMTA: Utilising linked binaries for analysed address space (MA/BA)!New!
- Converting and Verifying Resource Sharing Protocols in Real-Time Operating Systems (MA/BA) !New!
- Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles with Spline Curves (BA/MA) !New!
- Implementation and Evaluation of Stationary GANG Scheduling (BA/MA)
- Bit Error Tolerance Optimization of Object Detection Neural Networks (BA/MA)
- Architecture Search for Error Tolerant Binarized Neural Networks (BA/MA)
- Pruning Binarized Neural Networks for Embedded Systems (BA/MA)
- Dirichlet-Rescale Algorithm in Numerical Simulation on Real-Time Systems (MA)
- Hardware Acceleration for Real-time Quantum Spin Noise Spectroscopy (BA/MA)
- Energy analysis of machine learning algorithms on ultra-low power embedded devices (BA/MA)
- Hypervisor-based Memory Access Analysis and Non-Volatile Memory Simulation (BA/MA)
Ongoing thesis topics:
- Benchmark suit for evaluating wear levelling on specific memory regions (BA)
- Drone Deployment and Workload Offloading in Decentralized Drone Networks (MA)
- Precise Access Latency Measurement for Integrated FRAM Devices (BA/MA)
- A Realistic Energy Evalution Setup for Scheudling in Multicore Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Systems (BA/MA)
- Offloading Protocols for Multi-Mode Mixed-Criticality Systems (BA)
- Non-Volatile Memory Aware Task Scheduling on Low Power Hardware (BA)
- Verifying Resource Sharing Protocols in Real-Time Operating Systems (MA)
- Efficient Inference of Random Forests on Modern Memory Architectures (BA/MA)
- Supporting Multi-processor Resource Synchronization on Erika RTOS (BA)
- Exploration of K-means Clustering Algorithms on Low-dimensional Datasets (MA)
- Verification for the Concept Drift of Hyper-Parameter when Dataset Shift (BA/MA)
- Non-Volatile Unikernels: Library Support for Non-Volatile Memory in Library OSes (MA)