Theses

This list is just a collection of thesis ideas that was already formulated. We always have more interesting ideas, which were not written down yet, on the topics Quantum Computing, Software Engineering, System Architecture Research etc. Drop us an email, if you find none of the presented theses ideas interesting, or you have this one brilliant idea you want to pursue.

Open Topics

Minimum Overhead Memory Snapshots – Latency-reduced Copy-on-Write Mechanism in Userspace

Type: Master thesis
State: open
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: No Name

Test Framework for Jailhouse on RISC-V

Type: Master thesis
State: open
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer

Design and Implementation of an Integrated Toolkit for Academic Data Analysis

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: open
Supervisor: Benno Bielmeier

Digital Annealing

Type: Bachelor-/Master thesis
State: open
Supervisor: Lukas Schmidbauer

Looking for Hardware Hackers: RISC-V on FPGAs

Type: Master thesis
State: open
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: No Name

Quanten Demonstrator Generator

Type: Bachelor-/Master thesis
State: open
Supervisor: Maja Franz

Quantensimulation Performance Evaluierung

Type: Bachelor-/Master thesis
State: open
Supervisor: Lukas Schmidbauer

Running Theses

Analysis of Inter-System Delays in Quantum-Classical Computing Co-Designs

Type: Master thesis
State: running
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer, Ralf Ramsauer
Project: TAQO-PAM
Student: Andrej Utz

Formal Verification of Real-Time Systems Using Model-Based Quantification

Type: Master thesis
State: running
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Student: Benno Bielmeier

Human Gait through Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Agents

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: running
Supervisor: Benno Bielmeier
Project: DInO
Student: Jonas Schmidt

Reduction of Virtual Memory Management Overhead: Exploration of Hardware Mechanisms for Second-Level Paging

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: running
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Lukas Landgraf

Tailoring CPUs: Custom modifications of the Rocket-Chip Core in Chisel

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: running
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Felix Wagner

Comparative Analysis of Tracing Mechanisms in Linux for Real-Time Systems

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: running
Supervisor: Benno Bielmeier
Student: Alexander Letaief

Finished Theses

2024 (6 theses)

Entwicklung eines Linux-Kernel-Moduls zum transparenten Tunneln von CAN Schnittstellen über IP-Netzwerke

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Matthias Unterrainer (submitted: 01. Jul 2024)

Analysis and Evaluation of Quantum Compilers

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Tom Krüger, Felix Greiwe
Student: Vincent Gierisch (submitted: 15. May 2024)

Automatisierte Übungserfassung und Wiederholungserkennung mithilfe einer Smartwatch

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Markus Schottenhammer (submitted: 13. Mar 2024)

Comparative Analysis of Parameter Selection Heuristics for the Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Maja Franz
Project: TAQO-PAM
Student: Vincent Eichenseher (submitted: 05. Mar 2024)

Integration of optical computation in processor architectures for automotive use cases

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer, Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Florian Schulenberg (submitted: 01. Mar 2024)

Vergleich von Variationalen Quantenschaltkreis-Strukturen für Quanten-Reinforcement Learning

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Maja Franz
Student: Andreas Fellner (submitted: 20. Feb 2024)

2023 (5 theses)

Quantum Random Number Generation as a Service

Type: Research project
State: finished
Supervisor: Stefan Huber
Student: Simon Rothe
Refinement of a QRNG Linux Kernel Module and development of an API for Open Access of Quantum Random Numbers

Investigation of the Performance of Different QAOA Variants Under the Influence of Realistic Noise

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Hila Safi
Student: Simon Thelen (submitted: 29. Oct 2023)

Improving the QUantum computing Application benchmaRK (QUARK) Framework

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Hila Safi
Student: Martin Meilinger (submitted: 12. Sep 2023)

Assessing QAOA and Warm-Starting QAOA for Sudoku as a Graph Coloring Problem and Various Encodings Thereof

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Hila Safi
Student: Martin Gogeißl (submitted: 31. Jul 2023)

Uncovering Instabilities in Variational-Quantum Deep Q-Networks

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Project: TAQO-PAM, QLindA
Student: Maja Franz (submitted: 23. May 2023)

2022 (3 theses)

Socio-Technical Distillation -- From Micro-Level Responsibilities to Macro-Level Architecture Views

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer, Wolfgang Mauerer
Student: Pia Eichinger (submitted: 30. Sep 2022)

Kernel-Assisted Copy-on-Write Snapshots for Main-Memory HTAP Databases

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Lucas Wolf (submitted: 15. Sep 2022)

Snapshots in Linux Userspace -- Design and Application of a Copy-on-Write Memory Allocation Scheme

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Mario Mintel (submitted: 08. Aug 2022)

2021 (4 theses)

Applicability of Quantum Computing on Database Query Optimization

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Project: QLindA
Student: Manuel Schönberger (submitted: 22. Dec 2021)

Reinforcement Learning mit parametrisierten Quantenschaltkreisen

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Project: QLindA
Student: Maja Franz (submitted: 31. Aug 2021)
Verfahren und Konzepte des quantenbasierten Reinforcement Learnings werden vorgestellt und daraus entwickelte Technologien experimentell untersucht.

Machine-Learning-Algorithmus für eine Lebendobjekterkennung mittels CW-Radar im Umfeld eines induktiven Ladesystems

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Student: Benno Bielmeier (submitted: 13. Mar 2021)

Leitwert-basierte Graphengenerierung für die Simulation von Entwicklernetzwerken

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Student: Tobias Scheuerer (submitted: 09. Feb 2021)

2020 (7 theses)

Erstellung und Evalierung von Benchmarks für Echtzeitanalysen von Hypervisoren unter Linux

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Nathan Hausmann

Combining Patchwork and PaStA

Type: Research project
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Rohit Sarkar
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Student

Maintainers Expectations vs. Maintainers Reality

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Pia Eichinger (submitted: 30. Sep 2020)
Diese herausragende Arbeit wurde bereits einem breiteren akademischen und industriellen Publikum vorgestellt.

Systemkonsolidierung einer industriellen Robotersteuerung zu einem System gemischter Kritikalitäten mit Standard IT-Komponenten

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Tobias Teubl (submitted: 17. Sep 2020)

Mining Software Repositories to Analyze the Multivariate Collateral Evolution in Database Applications

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Student: Atalay Karatay (submitted: 12. Sep 2020)

Design and Implementation of a Generalized Conversion Framework for Trace Formats

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Student: Marco Eichenseer (submitted: 24. Jun 2020)

Assessing an industrial application of quantum annealers

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Wolfgang Mauerer
Student: Florian Loher (submitted: 20. May 2020)

2017 (2 theses)

Building a Mixed Criticality Multicopter Platform with the Jailhouse Hypervisor

Type: Master thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Tobias Kottwitz

Portierung eines Echtzeitbetriebssystems in eine virtualisierte Mixed-Criticality Umgebung

Type: Bachelor thesis
State: finished
Supervisor: Ralf Ramsauer
Student: Andreas Kölbl (submitted: 05. May 2017)