Best AI-Related MSc thesis Award 2025

The Best AI-Related MSc Thesis Award (short: AI Thesis Award) is a new award that celebrates outstanding master’s research at TU Delft dedicated to development, application or contexts of artificial intelligence. Master’s students from all faculties participated with their finished thesis, on condition that research is centered around or involves AI. The prize will be awarded in two categories: IN AI for research that advances AI itself, and WITH AI for research that applies AI in a specific domain. One TU Delft graduate will be selected in each category after the top 3 candidates pitch their thesis at this award ceremony.

Programme

14.30 – Walk-in
15.00 – Opening
15.15 – Thesis pitches
16.15 – Break + walk-in alumni community
16.30 – Award ceremony & Kick Off Alumni Community for AI, Data & Digitalisation
17.00 – Network drinks

Finalists Best AI-related MSc Thesis Award 2025

Category IN AI

• Krzysztof Piotr Baran (Computer Science @Faculty of EEMCS): Federated MaxFuse: Diagonal Integration of Weakly Linked Spatial and Single-cell Data through Federated Learning
• Prajit Bhaskaran (Computer Science @Faculty of EEMCS): Transformers Can Do Bayesian Clustering
• Simon Gebraad (Robotics @Faculty of ME): LeAP: Label any Pointcloud in any domain using Foundation Models

Category WITH AI

• Antonio Magherini (Civil Engineering @Faculty of CEG): JamUNet: predicting the morphological changes of braided sand-bed rivers with deep learning
• Isa Oguz (Management of Technology @Faculty of TPM): Victim Blaming Bias in Traffic Accidents Using Large Language Models
• Jeroen Hagenus (Robotics @Faculty of ME): Realistic Adversarial Attacks for Robustness Evaluation of Trajectory Prediction Models

AI Alumni Community Kick Off 

If you only want to attend the launch of the AI Alumni Community, the walk-in is between 16:15 -16:30 and borrel starts around 17:00

During this event, we also launch the new AI, Data and Digitalisation Alumni Community (short: AI Alumni Community). By connecting TU Delft alumni across generations, disciplines and sectors, we aim to unlock new opportunities for innovation, strengthen the bridge between research, application and societal value, and shape a digital future that benefits everyone. This community is open to all past, present and future TU Delft alumni with an interest in or background in AI, data and digitalisation. Community members include graduates from bachelor’s and master’s programmes as well as PhD alumni from across the university.