PhD Scholarships

Contact: Felix Naumann

There are PhD and PostDoc Scholarships at the HPI research school available regularly. The annual application deadline is August 15, but please inquire for other starting dates.

In general, we are always looking for student assistants both for teaching in Bachelor courses (Tutoren) and for research in various research projects. Please contact Felix Naumann if you are interested.

Business Communication Analysis

Contact: Tim Repke

About the project
Today's business communication is almost unimaginable without emails. They document discussions and decisions or summarise face-to-face meetings in the form of unstructured text or attachments and thus hold a significant amount of information about a business. In very exceptional cases, for example when investigating a known case of fraud, specialists examine inboxes and attached files of involved personnel to determine the extent of the situation. However, the sheer quantity of emails is unmanageable without some guidance by an exploration tool. In this project, we develop and evaluate methods to combine in such an exploration tool. This work touches the fields of text mining, text summarisation, document classification, topic modelling, named entity extraction, entity linking, relationship extraction, as well as social network-, and graph analysis. We work together with our industry partner from the financial sector to put our prototypes in the hands of auditors for real world feedback.

Tasks in this project
Email corpora come in various shapes and formats, which have to be parsed, normalised, and organised in a database for efficient access by downstream applications. We try to develop a flexible and modular pipeline oriented framework, which can be easily extended by new components derived from promising experiments. Besides the data processing and management, a prototype for a web based exploration tool is developed in a future bachelor project. We are looking to creatively integrate innovative interactive visualisation techniques that greatly improve the forensic workflow. As our student assistant, you'll support us building tools for our experiments and evaluation as well as conceptual prototypes.

We can discuss weekly working hours, but hope to fill a 40h/month position.

Why should you join us?

• apply and expand your coding skills
• learn a lot about our research
• be part of our research
• maybe even a thesis(?)
• ... because we are an awesome research group

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Change Exploration

Contact: Leon Bornemann

About the project

Data change, all the time. In this project we want to explore and understand those changes. We call this activity change exploration:  For a given, dynamic dataset, we want to efficiently capture and summarize changes at instance-, and schema-level, enable users to effectively explore this change in an interactive and graphical fashion and analyze patterns in the changing data.

Tasks in this project

As a working student you will support is in our research by assisting with various tasks, such as

• Opening up new Data sources
• Annotating Data
• Creating Visualizations

The tasks can be individually adapted to your skills and preferences. Should you have any Questions do not hesitate to ask.

Why should you join us?

• apply and expand your programming skills
• peak into the world of research in Computer Science
• maybe even find ideas for a thesis

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