During their 4 years of research, our PhD students work at CWI. As CWI is no university, their PhD defences take place at the university of the main supervisor, often a professor who is a researcher at CWI and who works at a university for 1 or 2 days a week. We collaborate with many Dutch universities.
PhD defences
At CWI, we believe that combining different talents creates excellence, so we make sure to nurture and facilitate young researchers from different backgrounds. We are proud to say that many Dutch researchers in mathematics and computer science once worked at CWI in their careers.
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PhD defence Xue Li (Database Architectures)
4 Feb 2026
from 10 a.m.
to 4 Feb 2026 11:30 a.m.
| University of Amsterdam, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229, Agnietenkapel, 1012 EZ Amsterdam,
The PhD defence of Xue Li will be on Wednesday 4 February 2026 at University of Amsterdam on "From Fine-tuning to Prompting: A Paradigm Shift in Knowledge Graph Construction"
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PhD defence of Adriaan Graas (Computational Imaging)
4 Feb 2026
from 2:15 p.m.
to 4 Feb 2026 4 p.m.
| Academiegebouw of Leiden University (Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ Leiden)
Faster X-ray Tomography in Real-world Dynamic Applications
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PhD defence of Danish Kashaev (Networks and Optimization)
10 Feb 2026
from 4 p.m.
| Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
Approximation via Duality in Offline, Online and Strategic Settings
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PhD Defence Xuemei Zhou (Distributed and Interactive Systems)
4 Mar 2026
from 10 a.m.
to 4 Mar 2026 11:30 a.m.
| Delft University, Senate Hall, Aula Conference Centre, Mekelweg 5, 2628 CD Delft
The PhD defence of Xuemei Zhou will be on Wednesday 4 March 2026 at Delft University of Technology on "Human-Centric Quality Assessment and Visual Attention Modeling for Point Clouds"
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PhD defence Syver Agdestein (Scientific Computing)
28 May 2026
from 1:30 p.m.
to 28 May 2026 2:30 p.m.
| University of Eindhoven, Atlas building
Data-driven discrete closure models for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulence
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