Doctoral Thesis Topics
The first step towards your doctoral degree is to find the topic of your thesis. Have a look at our open topics, and browse recently completed theses.
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Open Topics
Finding an exciting thesis topic is crucial — after all, you will spend years of your life researching it. Typically a supervisor offers topics that fit into a larger research context within their group, like long-term vision, projects, or Doctoral Colleges. Your benefit in choosing one of these topics is that some may come with funding, and you can build on existing experience and infrastructure within an established research group.
Topics in TISS
Open topics are usually announced via TISS. To see all available doctoral thesis topics, please configure the TISS search form as follows (we unfortunately can’t provide a direct link):
- Visit tiss.tuwien.ac.at/thesis/theses.xhtml.
- Click the “Extended Search” button
- Set thesis type to “Dissertation”
- Set faculty to “Faculty of Informatics”
Additional Topics
Individual
- Low Latency Machine Learning including 5G and Edge / Supervisor: Ivona Brandic
Collections
- ProbInG Project + DC SecInt / Supervisor: Ezio Bartocci
- Information Visualization and Visual Analytics / Supervisor: Silvia Miksch
You are a member of TU Wien Informatics, but prefer to not announce your topics in TISS? Simply send us an email with title, expiration date, supervisor name, and URL of additional information and we’ll add them here.
Completed Topics
Recently Completed
We are proud of every single candidate who graduates with us!
Here is a list of some of our most recent doctoral theses:
- Norm Compliance for Reinforcement Learning Agents / Neufeld, E. A. (2023). Norm Compliance for Reinforcement Learning Agents [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.112881
- Unpacking The Argument - A Claim-Centric View On Abstract Argumentation / Rapberger, A. (2023). Unpacking The Argument - A Claim-Centric View On Abstract Argumentation [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.112445
- A Logical Analysis of Normative Reasoning: Agency, Action, and Argumentation / Van Berkel, C. L. J. (2023). A Logical Analysis of Normative Reasoning: Agency, Action, and Argumentation [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.111854
- Data Protection via or versus Blockchain Technology, An Analytic Reflection and Discussion of the Exercise of Rights Arising from the GDPR to Improve Privacy in the Public Digital Space when using Blockchain Technology / Schmelz, D. (2023). Data Protection via or versus Blockchain Technology, An Analytic Reflection and Discussion of the Exercise of Rights Arising from the GDPR to Improve Privacy in the Public Digital Space when using Blockchain Technology [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.111763
- Impact of user trust in IT systems on security and privacy / Pfeffer, K. (2023). Impact of user trust in IT systems on security and privacy [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.111762
- Predictable and Performant Computer Architectures for Time-Critical Systems / Platzer, M. (2023). Predictable and Performant Computer Architectures for Time-Critical Systems [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.110808
- Automated Solution Methods for Complex Real-life Personnel Scheduling Problems / Kletzander, L. (2023). Automated Solution Methods for Complex Real-life Personnel Scheduling Problems [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.108382
- Parallel Computation of Structural Decompositions / Okulmus, C. (2023). Parallel Computation of Structural Decompositions [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.108704
- When Participatory Design Projects End - Designing a Toolkit for Teachers / Scheepmaker, L. S. (2023). When Participatory Design Projects End - Designing a Toolkit for Teachers [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.108761
- Algorithmic Accountability - Transparency, Agency and Literacy in the Age of the Algorithm / Cech, F. (2023). Algorithmic Accountability - Transparency, Agency and Literacy in the Age of the Algorithm [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2023.108760
The TU Wien Publication Database has the full list of all our completed theses.