Bachelor and Master thesis awards

The Computer Society Prize for the best thesis presented in 2022 was this year awarded for the 25th time. The winners were Elsa Andersson (Bachelor) and Carl-Magnus Bruhner (Master) presented by this year's Promotor Jendrik Seipp at an award ceremony.

Teaching and Learning Concurrent Programming in the Shared Memory Model

Modern computers contain an increasing number of cores. As such, students of computer science need to be familiar with concurrent programming in order to be able to write correct and performant programs for these systems. In his PhD thesis Filip Strömbäck investigates what areas of concurrent programming students struggle with, and suggests ways in which teachers can help students to better understand the subject.

Bayesian Models for Spatiotemporal Data from Transportation Networks

In this thesis, we develop Bayesian models with applications to transportation. We specifically focus on models that can be trained on spatiotemporal data coming from transport networks to make predictions on, e.g., bus delays or the actual network topology. Special attention has been given to model scalability issues and uncertainty quantification. We have used real-world data from transportation systems in every study to keep a balance between statistical rigor, novelty, and applicability.