PhD Defenses

On 21 September 2022 at 11:00, Ruben Brokkelkamp will defend his PhD Thesis titled 'How Close Does It Get?: From Near-Optimal Network Algorithms to Suboptimal Equilibrium Outcomes'. 

On 28 January 2022 at 16:00, Rik Timmerman (TU/e) will defend his PhD Thesis titled 'Performance analysis at the crossroad of queueing theory and road traffic'.

On 26 January 2022 at 10:00, Farrokh Labib (CWI) will defend his PhD Thesis titled 'Quasirandomness in quantum information theory'. Farrokh's PhD supervisor is Prof. H.M. Buhrman, the co-supervisor is Dr J. Briët.

Margriet Oomen will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Spatial Populations with Seed-bank' on November 18th 2021.

On July 9th 2021, Dániel Oláh will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Reliable Geometric Spanners'.

Birgit Sollie will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Statistical inverse problems for population processes' on June 7th 2021.

On March 26th 2021, Mark van der Boor will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Hyper-Scalable Load Balancing'.

Jaap Storm will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Stochastic traffic flow models. Asymptotic analysis, stability and applications' on February 2nd 2021.

On December 15th Madelon de Kemp will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Performance bounds in stochastic scheduling problems'.

Matteo Sfragara will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Wireless Random-Access Networks and Spectra of Random Graphs' on October 28th 2020.

On October 23rd Mariska Heemskerk will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Overdispersion in Service Systems'.

Viktoria Vadon will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Local and global structure of networks with communities' on June 16th, 2020.

Lorenzo Federico will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Phase transitions and connectivity in random graphs' on March 9th, 2020.

Bart Post will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Load-driven self-organization of Radio-over-Fibre enabled dense cellular networks' on February 26th, 2020.

On January 30th Tom Bannink will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Quantum and stochastic processes'.

Fiona Sloothaak will defend her PdD thesis entitled 'Criticality in power networks - a probabilistic approach' on January 16th, 2020.

Janusz Meylahn will defend his PdD thesis entitled 'Stochastic resetting and hierarchical synchronization' on September 24th 2019.

On September 9th Pieter Kleer will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'When Nash met Markov: Novel results for pure Nash equilibira and the switch Markov Chain'.

On September 4th Astrid Pieterse will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Tight Parameterized Preprocessing Bounds: Sparsification via Low-Degree Polynomials'.

Hakan Guldas will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Exploration on and of Networks' on July 3rd 2019.

On June 27th Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'ETH-Tight Algorithms for Geometric Network Problems'.

Nicos Starreveld will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Queues, random graphs, and queues on random graphs' on February 28th 2019.

On February 22nd David Koops will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Queueing Systems with Nonstandard Input Processes'.

Brendan Patch will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Modelling complex stochastic systems: approaches to management and stability' on February 11th 2019.

On February 5th Aleksandar Markovic will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Dynamic range and frequency assignment problems'.

On January 29th Alessandro Garavaglia will defend his PhD thesis entitled ‘Preferential attachment models for dynamic networks’.

Murtuza will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Performance analysis of optical switches' on 24th of January, 2019.

On January 22nd Abhishek will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Stochastic Models for Unsignalized Road Traffic Intersections'.

On December 5th Andrea Roccaverde will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Breaking of Ensemble for Complex Networks'.

On August 28th Debankur Mukherjee will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Scalable Load Balancing Algorithms in Networked Systems'.

Debankur's promotors are Sem Borst and Johan van Leeuwaarden.

On August 28th Souvik Dhara will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Critical Percolation on Random Networks with Prescribed Degrees'.

Souvik's promotors are Remco van der Hofstad and Johan van Leeuwaarden.